VMWare Cloud on AWS

The VMware Cloud could be deployed on the AWS bare-metal instances. The VMware Cloud on AWS integrates VMware's compute, storage and network virtualisation products (VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN and VMware NSX) along with VMware vCenter Server management, optimized to run on dedicated, elastic, bare-metal AWS infrastructure. Clusters can range from a minimum 3 hosts up to a maximum of 16 hosts per cluster. Each host is equivalent to an Amazon EC2 metal instance. More detailed information is available on the FAQs on AWS website. Currently the VMware Cloud could be deployed on Amazon EC2 i3.metal and r5.metal instances.

Name	vCPU	RAM(GiB)	Local Storage	Network Bandwidth
i3.metal	72	512	8 x 1900 NVMe direct attached, EBS on-demand	25 Gbps
r5.metal	96	768	EBS only	25 Gbps