VMC on AWS

The latest M12 release of SDDC (version 1.12) came with a lot of interesting storage features including vSAN compression for i3en, TRIM/UNMap (I will cover it in a future post) as well as new networking features like SDDC Groups, VMWare Transit Connect, Time-based Scheduling of DFW rules and many more. One that typically stands out … Continue reading “Introducing Multi-Edge SDDC on VMC on AWS”

In the previous posts of this series on Configuring a VPN connection from WatchGuard TM Firebox to VMC, I have showed you how to setup the Firebox and how to establish a VPN with a native VPC. In this last post, I will attach the SDDC to the WatchGuard Firebox instance with a IPSEC route-based … Continue reading “Configure VPN from VMC to WatchGuardTM Firebox Cloud – Part 4 (Final)”

In this Part, I will show you how to configure an IPsec VPN from the “spoke” native VPC to the Firebox instance deployed in the transit VPC. This permits to leverage the Watchguard Firewall instance in the transit VPC as a filtering device from any trafic coming outside (SDDC, spoke VPC, on-prem). Phase 1 – … Continue reading “Configure VPN from VMC to WatchGuardTM Firebox Cloud – Part 3”

Phase 2 – Deploy the WatchGuard Firebox instance In Part 1 of this blog post, we have deployed a new transit VPC with two subnets and a route table configured accordingly. Now it’s time to deploy a WatchGuard FW cloud EC2 instance in the transit VPC. This is possible from the EC2 dashboard: After logging … Continue reading “Configure VPN from VMC to WatchGuardTM Firebox Cloud – Part 2”

When I look back I realise I have been working at VMware for about 9 months and I have spent a tremendous amount of time dealing with a high number of requests, questions and issues with my customers. One that particularly stands out is around integrating VMC on AWS with a Firewall hosted in a … Continue reading “Configure VPN from VMC to WatchGuardTM Firebox Cloud – Part 1”