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In this chapter, I will talk about the key elements needed to plan, size, and deploy your first software-defined datacenter (SDDC) on VMware Cloud on AWS from application discovery to actual design considering high availability, scalability, and security.
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RVTools is a Windows .NET application that uses the VMware vSphere Management SDK and CIS REST API to display information about a vSphere virtual environment.
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A method of mirroring or stripping data on clusters of low-end disk drives; data is copied onto multiple drives for faster throughput, error correction, fault tolerance, and improved mean time between failures.
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VMware Cloud Sizer is a complimentary VMware Cloud service that estimates the resources required to run various workloads within VMware Cloud.
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Live Optics is a free, online workload observation software you can use to collect, visualize, and share data about your IT environment and workloads.
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AZs are distinct locations within an AWS region that are engineered to be isolated from failures in other AZs.
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RPO stands for Recovery Point Objective and is the amount of data you are ready to lose in a case of a disaster.
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In a typical AWS deployment, one subnet is mapped to or exists in a single AZ.
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NVMe (nonvolatile memory express) is a new storage access and transport protocol for flash and next-generation solid-state drives (SSDs) that delivers the highest throughput and fastest response times yet for all types of enterprise workloads.
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The minimum number of hosts that are ready to recover the workloads after a DR event.
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The VMware Cloud on AWS service description including the SLA provides more details about it: www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/support/vmw-cloud-aws-service-level-agreement.pdf.
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AWS Key Management Service (KMS) gives you centralized control over the cryptographic keys used to protect your data. The service is integrated with other AWS services making it easier to encrypt data you store in these services and control access to the keys that decrypt it.
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For more information on AWS KMS, please consider reading the following FAQ: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/overview.html.
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AWS Direct Connect is a cloud service solution for establishing a dedicated network connection from on-premises locations to AWS. This provides a safer, more consistent network experience as this does not involve using the public Internet.
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BGP is a dynamic routing protocol used inside the Internet to help gateways automatically exchange their routes.
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This means that any routes learned over one route-based VPN are advertised to all the other VPNs.
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An AWS account is a container to host AWS resources. An AWS account provides security, access, and billing boundaries for AWS resources and helps achieve resource independence and isolation.
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VPCs are a virtual network object where you can launch AWS resources.
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AWS CloudFormation provides users with a simple way to create and manage a collection of Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources by provisioning and updating them in a predictable way.
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IAM roles are entities that allow you to control access to AWS services and resources.
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Amazon S3 is a highly available and scalable inexpensive object storage service designed with a 99.999999999% durability.
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A Virtual Private Gateway is a network construct within a VPC that helps interconnect DX or serves a VPN endpoint for L3VPN from on-premises, other VPCs, or TGWs.
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The TCP MSS Clamping feature avoids packet fragmentation in an IPsec VPN session by adjusting the maximum transmission unit in the egress interface.
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Lombard, C. (2023). Sizing and Deploying a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. In: VMware Cloud on AWS. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9364-5_2
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