Infrastructure-As-Code with HashiCorp Terraform, VMware and VMware Cloud on AWS

This blog post will walk through what HashiCorp Terraform is and how to set up Terraform with VMware, including a few examples with VMware Cloud on AWS. Terraform is another tool offered by HashiCorp (I covered Packer in a previous post). Packer provided the ability to create and manage virtual machines from a template written […]

Infrastructure-As-Code with HashiCorp Packer, VMware and VMware Cloud on AWS

This post will focus on using the Infrastructure-As-Code tool HashiCorp Packer and how it works with VMware and a concrete example with VMware Cloud on AWS. Kudos to Cody De Arkland for his excellent blog on this topic (Cody has so much good stuff on his blog). I also consulted this post, this post, the […]

AWS Transit VPC

This blog post will walk through the VPC, VPC Peering and Transit VPC. After Aarthi and I covered Transit VPC at a high-level on this AWS blog post, I thought I would provide expand on the architecture behind Transit VPC. VPC Recap Let’s start with a very quick recap of a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud). […]

Advanced Design Considerations with Direct Connect with VMware Cloud on AWS : Filtering and Summarization

This blog post will provide additional design considerations around Direct Connect and VMware Cloud on AWS. Make sure you read the first post on the Direct Connect concepts and integration with VMware Cloud on AWS and the second post on Direct Connect and VPN as a back-up. I’m going to do a few of these […]

Integrating Next-Gen Firewalls with VMware Cloud on AWS

New post published on the AWS Partner Network Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/integrating-next-gen-firewalls-with-vmware-cloud-on-aws/ Co-written with Aarthi Raju from AWS.

DHCP and DHCP Relay on VMware Cloud on AWS

This blog post will focus on DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) on VMware Cloud on AWS and the benefits provided by the recently-released DHCP Relay feature. First, you might want to read Humair‘s post on NSX releases on VMC 1.7– he covers some aspects of DHCP Relay but I just wanted to provide a bit […]

Export Firewall Logs on VMware Cloud on AWS to VMware Log Intelligence and Splunk

This blog post will walk through how to export VMware Cloud on AWS Firewall logs to a SIEM like Splunk. Most of my blog posts are driven by customer questions and one that has come up on several occasions is the requirement to log network firewall flows. This is typically required for auditing, troubleshooting and […]

Port Mirroring on VMware Cloud on AWS

Blog post posted on the official VMware Cloud Community blog: https://cloud.vmware.com/community/2019/04/25/port-mirroring-vmware-cloud-aws/

Distributed Firewall on VMware Cloud on AWS

Blog post published on the official VMware Network Virtualization blog: https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2019/04/distributed-firewall-on-vmware-cloud-on-aws.html/

Anatomy of a Seamless Cross-Atlantic vMotion to VMware Cloud on AWS

A few weeks ago, I posted a video on LinkedIn and received far more interaction than I expected: It’s probably worth explaining the magic behind the scenes and walking through how I built this short demo. A lot of the credit goes to Chris Lennon, Adam Bohle and Michael Armstrong for setting up our lab […]