Scheduled Cluster Auto-Scale with VMware Cloud on AWS and AWS Lambda

This post will walk through how to automatically add and remove hosts to your VMware cluster, by leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC, Python and AWS Lambda. While we have the very cool Elastic DRS feature that can scale up and down based on resource thresholds, EDRS is not clever enough (yet) to anticipate when […]

Introducing PyVMC: a Python-based tool for VMware Cloud on AWS

Last updated – 19th June 2020 This tool has now been promoted to a Fling and we are now up to version 1.1 with DFW support. More and more of our customers are automating as many common tasks as possible. There are many ways to script, codify or automate tasks with VMware Cloud on AWS […]

HashiCorp Terraform for vSphere – update for TF 0.12 and later

HashiCorp Terraform 0.12 was released back in May 2019 but most of my work with TF was using v0.11 or earlier. Some viewers of my previous post let me know they had some issues with the previous template configuration I had provided so here is an updated and validated version with 0.12. This post will […]

Introducing HashiCorp Terraform Provider for NSX-T Policy Manager and VMware Cloud on AWS

Last update on 12th January 2021: Added a comment about a new option “nsxt_policy_predefined_gateway_policy” that removes the requirement to run “terraform import”. Previous update on 2nd September 2020: Terraform NSX-T Policy provider is automatically downloaded when running “terraform init” (no need to compile it – read further below for more details). This blog post will […]

Introducing the HashiCorp Terraform Provider for VMware Cloud on AWS

Last updated on 2nd September 2020: Terraform VMC provider is automatically downloaded when running “terraform init” (no need to compile it – read further below for more details). Here is a feature I had been hoping to see for for a long time – a Terraform provider to spin up VMware Cloud on AWS resources. […]

Network and Security Updates in VMware Cloud on AWS version 1.9

With the recent VMware Cloud on AWS release 1.9 out comes a ton of new networking and security features. Most of the focus of these features is on making the platform easier to manage and secure VMs in the cloud. There are all summarized in this post, except the Terraform NSX-T Policy provider which will […]

Synchronizing NSX security tags with vSphere tags using AWS Lambda

This post will walk-through how to synchronize VMware vSphere Tags with NSX security tags via vRealize Log Insight Cloud and AWS Lambda Python scripts. Thanks to William Lam, Gilles Chekroun and Guillaume Vibert for their help with this project. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my career is to listen to customers. It’s too […]

AWS Transit VPC (Part 2) – with Palo Alto Networks and VMware Cloud on AWS

This technical post will walk through how to set up a Transit VPC with Palo Alto Networks firewalls and how to connect it to VMware Cloud on AWS. The instructions below will also be applicable to a standard AWS VPC. You can also use the commands further below to set up a route-based VPN from […]

VMware Cloud Marketplace, Bitnami and VMware Cloud on AWS

This post will walk through the VMware Cloud Marketplace, Bitnami and VMware Cloud on AWS. One of the most underrated aspects of the success of AWS EC2 is the ease at which customers can deploy 3rd party software onto their platform via the AWS Marketplace. Based on the latest data I’ve come across, the AWS […]

AWS Client VPN Tutorial

This post will provide a tutorial of how to set up AWS Client VPN. AWS Client VPN is a fairly recent AWS service and something I had been meaning to try out for a while. Several customers and colleagues recently asked me about whether it could be used with VMware Cloud on AWS so I […]