Leveraging Native AWS Services with VMware Cloud on AWS | Database Replacement with RDS

Aug 16, 2023

Leveraging Native AWS Services with VMware Cloud on AWS | Database Replacement with RDS

This video covers how you can offload your database workload from a traditional VMware environment up into Amazon’s cloud services. Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) allows you to deploy database instances directly into your VPC in AWS.

This is just one way that using an Amazon-native service can help simplify your VMware environment, allow you to scale, and allow your team to get more done in less time.

If you’re interested in talking about VMware Cloud, how you can replace some of your on-prem environments, maybe close a data center with it. Contact us, we’d love to talk to you! https://www.factioninc.com/contact/

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3.73 -> Hey everybody, Matt Wallace from Faction. We're here today to talk to you more

8.05 -> about VMware Cloud on AWS integrations with Amazon native services.

12.13 -> In this part of this series, we're going to talk about basically being able to

16.299 -> offload your database workload from a traditional VMware environment up into

20.26 -> Amazon's cloud services. So if you're not super familiar with AWS,

25.02 -> they operate a service called Relational Database Service (RDS). And what Amazon does is

30.25 -> they allow you to deploy database instances based on things like MySQL,

35.699 -> PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, or Amazon's own in-house Aurora DB, and

42.19 -> actually deploy those. They run directly inside the private networking of your

46.6 -> virtual private cloud inside of AWS. What we conceptualize is this idea

51.25 -> that you know a lot of the customers that we're talking to are in the process

54.25 -> of doing a migration to VMC. So you know, you might think about a customer

58.75 -> who's down here in "on-prem land" today, but they're planning a migration over

62.83 -> here to VMware Cloud on AWS. And of course, VMware Cloud on AWS is basically

66.85 -> just like the SDDC environment you run on-prem. It's based on vSphere, vSAN, NSX.

72.13 -> But if you have vSphere on-prem, you're compatible essentially with VMware

75.939 -> Cloud on AWS. You can bring your entire stack over, your applications, your

80.2 -> database, your web servers, and bring it to VMware Cloud on AWS pretty much as

83.859 -> it is. But one of the thoughts that we think is you know if you're dealing with

88.299 -> high touch maintenance on database instances today, you might be able to

92.229 -> save a lot of time and effort by shifting some of those instances up into

96.909 -> Amazon native. This Elastic Network Interface (ENI) is a private interconnection

101.32 -> between the VMware Cloud on AWS environment and your VPC inside of

104.89 -> Amazon. What you'd be able to do in a migration scenario is take this database

109.079 -> essentially stand up a Relational Database instance inside of AWS and then

114.939 -> essentially migrate that data here using replication, that sort of thing. Once

120.49 -> you've made the move of that data to this RDS database now your

125.079 -> application servers, which used to connect to this database, you can get rid

129.67 -> of that connection and have them connecting to this database. The

133.87 -> advantage there is that with Amazon Web Services with RDS

137.54 -> you know things like backups, things like replication, things like failover,

147.069 -> basically can all be accomplished completely through the RDS automation.

152.03 -> And so you know instead of having all the complication of managing those

155.36 -> things yourself you get rid of that part of the stack move it up to AWS

158.18 -> native. So it's a really powerful thing, and to these application servers it

162.29 -> seems basically the same, right? This is all running in one Amazon data center, so

166.19 -> the connection to this and the connection to this really look identical

170.06 -> from the application perspective. So that's just one way that using an Amazon

174.56 -> native service can help simplify your VMware environment, allow you to scale,

178.04 -> and allow your team to get more done in less time.

180.67 -> Faction's been working on these type of composite architectures with our

184.459 -> customers so if you're interested in talking about VMware Cloud on AWS, how

188.209 -> you can replace some of your on-prem environments maybe close the data center

191.51 -> with it, and you're interested in how you can save time and money and scale faster

195.769 -> and be more agile with services like Relational Database Service on top of

199.97 -> your VMC environment - get in touch with Faction we'd love to talk to you!

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUO73zHw0Jc