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Automating HCX Add On for VMware Cloud on AWS

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Enabling Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) for a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC is just a click of a button and is completely self-service which makes consuming the HCX Service extremely easy! All the hard work of deploying and configuring the required HCX infrastructure for your SDDC is completely automated for you by VMware when you click on "Deploy HCX" button.


Once the HCX infrastructure has been deployed in your SDDC, you can then deploy the respective HCX components for your on-premises vSphere environment which you can fully automate end-to-end which I have blogged about here.

Although the deployment of the HCX components for the SDDC is just click of a button, I recently had a need to automate this and I figure this would be a nice addition to my HCX PowerShell Community Module and complete the end-to-end story quite nicely from enabling the HCX Cloud Service to automating the deployment and configuration of the on-premises HCX components.

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New hardware support & enhancements to USB Network Native Driver for ESXi

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Since releasing the USB Network Native Driver for ESXi Fling back in February, the feedback and support for this Fling has simply been amazing. I especially enjoy hearing from customers, almost on a weekly basis, on how they are taking advantage of this solution in their vSphere/vSAN/NSX home lab and enabling for more complex networking topologies.

When we released the fling, we had focused on the most popular USB 3.0 network adaptors that we had accessed to which were based on AX8817a, AX88179 & RTL8153 chipsets. The initial list started out with just 5 devices, but we knew there were going to be others. In fact, Songtao and I have received plenty of feedback from our customers on what they would like to see supported, including USB 2.0 network adaptors. Another highly requested feature that customers have been asking for is support for Jumbo Frames and this is usually in the context of setting up either an NSX-V or NSX-T environment.

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Forwarding VMC Events to AWS Lambda/CloudWatch using Log Intelligence Webhook

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In my previous post, I provided an example on how customers can take advantage of Log Intelligence's Webhook capability to consume VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) based events and extend that to other Public Cloud Services like Slack as an example to build new and interesting integrations. We took advantage of the fact that some of these Public Cloud Services either have native webhook support or have a built-in Webhook listener like IFTTT which in turn can support other services which may not have native Webhook support.

However, customers can also build their own Webhook listener, which is nothing more than being able to POST to an API endpoint with a pre-defined JSON payload. In fact, this would be needed for any on-premises integration if the solution does not support webhooks.

For VMC customers who currently consume AWS Services such as Lambda and CloudWatch, it is actually very easy to integrate these and other AWS Services directly using LINT's Webhook feature. In fact, I chose Lambda and CloudWatch as these are two of the mostly frequently asked integration points. At our recent VMC Customer Summit, which took place last month, I had built a demo based on an actual customer use case for sending specific VMC Events from LINT to Cloud Watch as that was their tool of choice for auditing purpose.

I decided to make use of Lambda as it allowed me to quickly integrate with CloudWatch and I could also show how lambda integration would work given the number of customers asking. Ultimately, Lambda also enabled me to easily build a Webhook listener to process the LINT Webhook by simply front-ending the Lambda function with an AWS API Gateway, which was super easy to setup and use.

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