There's this big buzz since VMworld last year, where the partnership between VMware and Amazon has been announced, creating what's being called VMware Cloud on AWS.
If you are like me, you are deadly curious to put your hands on this beauty, well let me tell you this, there’s a Hand-on-Lab about it.
HOLs are the fastest and easiest way to test drive the full technical capabilities of VMware products, including VMC on AWS.
As any VMware HOL, there’s a manual you can read the instructions that will guide you through the lab, but if are more a freestyle type of guy, just open up Chrome and it will redirect you to the Cloud Services page.
From there you can consume VMware Cloud on AWS Service with a single click
The creation of your first SDDC could not be easier.
In less than 3 minutes, literally, my SDDC was ready and I could throw workloads on it.
It’s a fully functional service, you can play with all capabilities;
After playing with it, let’s say you are convinced that the solution fits your needs, but you are not sure on how to start and size your environment.
The first approach would be the “Start Small”, get the smaller SDDC possible, nowadays it starts with 4 hosts and increases the number of hosts as you need, Scale-out capability is part of VMC on AWS and just take minutes to spin un a new host to your cluster.
Or you can use VMware Cloud on AWS Sizer and TCO.
Just fill out a simple form with a couple of information like VM count, storage size, vCPU/core ratio, IP profile….
…. and BANG, the recommendation for your environment is presented to you.
I personally love the detailed storage consumption information chart
Along with a Cluster break down information
What else do we need ?!?!?
