NSX L2VPN

For customers that need to maintain the same IP addresses after they’ve migrated workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS, they can use the NSX Layer 2 VPN functionality.

NSX has offered a L2VPN capability for several years. A L2VPN enables customers to stretch networks between two different sites, over a public or private network (with no requirements on MTU).

VMware Cloud on AWS uses NSX to provide L2VPN features in your cloud SDDC.

Networking on VMC on AWS – Internal Networking

In VMware Cloud on AWS, we have two logical domains – one for “Management Resources” (where the ESXi hosts, vCenter, NSX Manager and NSX Controllers are deployed) and one for “Compute Resources”, where data VMs are deployed.

L3 VPN

In the July 2018 release of VMware Cloud on AWS was introduced Route-based VPN as part of the NSX-T roll-out. Route-Based VPN provides vast improvements from the traditional Policy-Based VPN.