At VMworld earlier this year I presented a deep-dive on vSAN storage for VMware Cloud on AWS with Matt Amdur. This was an interesting topic as we’d had to deliver some enhancements to vSAN for deployment onto the Amazon EC2 Bare Metal instances, now that they’ve been released there are a few more public details that can be shared!
At VMworld we covered a few key topics including the host and cluster configuration on EC2 Bare Metal instances, how we were operating the storage in AWS that would be a little different from how on-premises customers would operate, and a few peaks into the unique features delivered for VMware Cloud on AWS and a look into our plans.
At the recent re:Invent conference, AWS launched their new EC2 Bare Metal instances. VMware were early customers of this instance and worked collaboratively with AWS to ensure the new bare metal platform was a good platform for running ESXi and vSAN. With the launch of the solution, AWS was more open about talking details on their platform. Check out the session by Aaron Blassius and Matt Wilson sharing details on the new platform we are using for VMware Cloud on AWS.