to expand and collapse resources as required. It also provides for a cost-effective Disaster Recovery (DR) solution. To provide a DR site in an on-premises solution requires hardware to be dedicated to the task and thus potentially under-utilised during normal operations or over-subscribed during disaster situations. A solution that utilises Public Cloud in its disaster design can make use of the usual premise in public cloud that VMs are charged for only when used, apart from a minimal cost associated with the space they take up and even then cost will be tiered according to performance. During normal operations, these clones can sit on low cost storage and then be promoted as required.
Hybrid cloud solutions
A good example of a Hybrid Cloud solution is VMware Cloud on AWS or Cloud Simple. It offers the same functionality as a VMware Private Cloud solution and thus allows a company to move workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS with little or no effort. However, VMware Cloud on AWS shouldn’t be used as a dumping ground for all workloads, it is still a public cloud-based product and as such will not suit all workloads permanently. Companies should be circumspect in their placement of servers and carry out due diligence as to their suitability for use in public cloud first. It does, however, offer a perfect DR solution for all workloads as they can be failed-over or restored to VMware Cloud on AWS as it mirrors the platform they currently work on – assuming it is vSphere.
Until the advent of NSX-T, VMware Cloud on AWS and IBM Cloud for VMware were the only platforms that offered the ability to extend VMware’s SDN solution – and thus the security policies around it – to the public cloud as these platforms were the only ones compatible with NSX-V.
NSX-T has changed that in that it is designed to work with not only any public cloud, but container platforms and thus the ‘on-premises’ infrastructure security can now be extended to follow the application where ever it is resourced from. This means that if you are currently utilising NSX-V, VMware Cloud on AWS offers the best solution to provide a seamless extension to the public cloud, but NSX-T is the choice of SDN for a Multi-Cloud platform, whether that is standard VM based or containerised micro-services.
What VMware Cloud on AWS (and other Hybrid Cloud solutions) offers is a cost efficient and expedient method to migrate suitable workloads to the public cloud. Then utilise that same cloud as a viable, highly resilient and cost efficient, disaster recovery platform for those that are not.
VMware Cloud on AWS also offers an excellent End User Compute (EUC) solution. An on-premises Horizon estate can be seamlessly expanded, with full feature compatibility, to the on-premises environment along with security, monitoring and automation.
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