A cloud administrator needs to deploy the vSphere Replication virtual appliance and the Site Recovery manager virtual appliance when protecting a VMware Cloud on AWS software-defined data center (SDDC) with VMware Site Recovery.

The vSphere Replication virtual appliance is responsible for replicating the virtual machines from the source to the target site. Site Recovery Manager virtual appliance acts as the central management and orchestration platform for the entire disaster recovery process.

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The two steps that the cloud administrator should complete on I/O-intensive workloads to ensure the best performance possible are to configure the VMware Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter and to ensure that the VMware hardware version is 7 or later. The PVSCSI adapter provides improved performance and scalability compared to the LSI Logic Parallel SCSI controller. Additionally, the hardware version should be 7 or later to ensure that the virtual machine is able to take advantage of the latest features and enhancements. Enabling the memory hot-add feature and configuring a maximum of two CPU cores per socket will not improve the performance of I/O-intensive workloads.

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Publishing Applications with VMware Horizon 7

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VMware Cloud on AWS also includes a paravirtualized SCSI storage adapter, PVSCSI (also called VMware Paravirtual). The PVSCSI adapter offers a significant reduction in CPU utilization as well as potentially increased throughput compared to the default virtual storage adapters, and is thus the best choice for environments with very I/O-intensive guest applications. In order to use PVSCSI, virtual machine must be using virtual hardware version 7 .or later https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-on-AWS/services/vmc-aws-performance.pdf

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To allow HTTPS access to a specific VM through the public Internet for VMware Cloud on AWS, the administrator should take the following two steps:

Request a public IP address in the VMware Cloud console.  This is required because the VM needs a public IP address to be reachable from the Internet 1 .  The administrator can request a public IP address from the Networking & Security tab in the VMware Cloud console 1 .  The public IP address is allocated from the AWS pool and is associated with the SDDC 1 .

Configure a DNAT rule translating a public IP address to an internal IP address.  This is required because the VM has an internal IP address assigned by the SDDC DHCP server, and the DNAT rule maps the public IP address to the internal IP address of the VM 2 .  The administrator can configure a DNAT rule from the Networking & Security tab in the VMware Cloud console 2 .  The DNAT rule must specify the public IP address as the source, the internal IP address as the destination, and the HTTPS service (TCP 443) as the applied to 2 .  References :  1 : Request a Public IP Address - VMware Docs,  2 : Configure NAT Rules - VMware Docs

The error message that the Cloud Administrator is receiving indicates that the cluster is not able to meet the requirements of the new virtual machine due to insufficient fault domains. The most likely cause of this is that one of the hosts is in maintenance mode. When a host is in maintenance mode, it is not available to the cluster, and thus cannot provide the necessary fault domains. To correct this issue, the Cloud Administrator should ensure that all hosts in the cluster are available and not in maintenance mode before attempting to create the new virtual machine.

For the source and destination host to have shared access to the storage that contains the VM, they must be able to access the same datastore. This requires that the datastore be available to both hosts and that the datastore has the same name on both hosts.

The status of VMware Tools on the VM should also be checked before performing a hot migration. VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of a virtual machine ' s guest operating system and improves the management of the virtual machine. If VMware Tools is not installed or not up to date, the hot migration may fail.

Finally, the status of the guest operating system in the VM should also be checked before performing a hot migration. The guest operating system should be up and running and not in a suspended state. If the guest operating system is in a suspended state, the hot migration may fail.

The CPU instruction set required by the VM and the vGPU configuration of the VM are not items to consider when performing a hot migration of a virtual machine. The source and destination host management network IP address families do not need to match for the hot migration to be successful.

References: [1]  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-B2B7F78A-5D5F-4A3E-BEA9-9F6A02A7E1B2.html  [2]  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-EAAE04A9-9DAF-4DAC-B4A0-F35A4F4F2A6A.html  [3]  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-9FADCD7E-F4A8-4F29

VMware HCX Network Extension is a layer-two bridging function initiated at the source site 1 .  It allows customers to extend their on-premises networks to a VMware Cloud SDDC without changing the IP addresses of the virtual machines 2 .  When extending a network, a corresponding NSX segment is created at the destination site 1 .  The network segment type that HCX Network Extension creates in the VMware Cloud SDDC is  Extended 2 .  This means that the network is stretched across both sites and the routing is handled at the source site 2 .  The Extended network segment type preserves the network identity and connectivity of the virtual machines that are migrated or created on the extended segment at the remote site 2 .  References :  1 : Extending Networks Using VMware HCX,  2 : About VMware HCX Network Extension

The two VMware solutions that can meet the customer ' s requirement for a self-managed VDI solution are D. VMware Horizon and E. VMware Workspace ONE Access. VMware Horizon is a virtual desktop and application virtualization platform that enables customers to set up and deploy a virtual desktop infrastructure in any cloud environment. VMware Workspace ONE Access provides secure access to applications, data, and devices in any cloud environment.

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The Cloud Services Portal communicates with the Workspace ONE Access Connector via port 443 (HTTPS). According to the VMware documentation  [1] , the Cloud Services Portal connects to the Access Connector on port 443 to authenticate users and authorize access to the cloud service. The Access Connector listens on port 443 and communicates with the Active Directory using LDAP over TLS (LDAPS) on port 636. Reference:  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-Access/services/com.vmware.access.admin.configure.doc/GUID-F5C6FD9E-36DA-4B1F-A7E7-CF8F64A81D78.html