Cloud Gateway

In this guide we will be configuring the Cloud Gateway Appliance to setup Hybrid Linked Mode

Pre-Reqs:

• Your on-prem vCenter needs to be:

  • vSphere 6.0 Updatge 3 patch c or later
  • vSphere 6.5 patch d or later

• NTP: Tolerate a time skew of up to 10 minuets

• A VPN or a Direct Connect exists

• Max Latency: 100 msec roundtrip

• An On-Prem AD group which will be assigned Cloud Administrator Permmisions

• Login credentials for a user who has a minimum of read-only access to the Based DN for uses and groups in your AD

• On-premises DNS server configured

• Cloud vCenter resolution should be set to resolve Private IP

• On-Premises Firewall allows required ports

• Management Firewall on the cloud side allows required ports

• Ensure that you have the admin credentials for your on-premises vSphere SSO domain

The following are the ports that you will need opened on both your Management Gateway Firewall in VMware Cloud on AWS and you on-prem Firewall.

Login to the VMC portal

Then go to the VMware Cloud on AWS Service then click tools, and click to download the Cloud Gateway Appliance

Download the appliance to a machine that has access to your local vCenter

Browse to the installer and run as administrator

Click start

Enter vCenter information

1. Enter your vCenter FQDN, user and password
2. Click next

Select vCenter Folder for the appliance

Select Compute Resource

Setup Target appliance VM

1. Enter a name and root password for the appliance
2. Click next

Select Storage Location

1. Choose a datastore
2. Enable thin disk mode
3. Click next

Enter Network Settings and click next

Configure NTP server and click next

Enter single Sign-On settings and click next

Join AD Domain

1. Select to join AD domain
2. Enter Domain and credentials
3. Click Finish

Monitor Appliance deployment in vCenter

Go back to installer and click start

Link Cloud Gatway to VMC

1. Enter the VMware Cloud on AWS FQDN, user and password
2. Click Finish

Launch vCenter Client

Login to Cloud Gateway

1. Enter you local SSO credentials
2. Click Login

Now you can view both your local vCenter objects and VMware Cloud on AWS onjects in the same client

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