Google Cloud VMware Engine – Learning Resources

As part of my recent move to Google, I’m working on quickly getting up to speed on the Google Cloud VMware Engine service.

There is a lot of good content out there already, however, it is in various different places. So I’ve decided to create a quick post linking to the various resources that I found. At this stage, they are in no particular order and the list will likely grow over time.

Google Cloud VMware Engine

• Homepage: https://cloud.google.com/vmware-engine
• Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/vmware-engine#section-5
• Use Cases: https://cloud.google.com/vmware-engine#section-6

Google Cloud VMware Engine Overview – Hands-on Lab

• Link: https://docs.hol.vmware.com/HOL-2021/hol-2179-01-ism_html_en/
• A VMware hosted Hands-On lab covering an overview of the GVCE service and also looking at migration to GCVE using VMware HCX.

Google Cloud VMware Engine Logical Design Poster for Workload Mobility

• Link: https://cloud.vmware.com/community/2021/02/25/introducing-google-cloud-vmware-engine-logical-design-poster-workload-mobility/
• The goal of this poster is to provide customers a logical view of what is required to start migrating workloads to GCVE

Google Cloud VMware Engine cheat sheet

• Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/google-cloud-vmware-engine-cheat-sheet
• Video: https://youtu.be/FJGNj_j2BY8
• This blog post will take you through Google Cloud VMware Engine, its benefits, features, and use cases.

Intro to Google Cloud VMware Engine – Deploying a GCVE SDDC with HCX (Matt Elliott)

• Link: https://networkbrouhaha.com/2021/02/gcve-sddc-with-hcx/
• This first post walks through the prerequisites, deploying an SDDC with VMware HCX, and accessing vCenter via VPN Gateway (i.e., OpenVPN).

Intro to Google Cloud VMware Engine – Network and Connectivity Overview (Matt Elliott)

• Link: https://networkbrouhaha.com/2021/03/gcve-network-overview/
• This post provides an overview of the networking configuration and capabilities, and how to connect to it from an external site.

Intro to Google Cloud VMware Engine – Connecting a VPC to GCVE (Matt Elliott)

• Link: https://networkbrouhaha.com/2021/02/gcp-vpc-to-gcve/
• This post shows the process of connecting a VPC to your GCVE environment, and we will use Terraform to do the vast majority of the work.

Intro to Google Cloud VMware Engine – Bastion Host Access with IAP (Matt Elliott)

• Link: https://networkbrouhaha.com/2021/03/gcve-bastion/
• This post builds on the previous posts in this series by deploying a Windows Server 2019 bastion host to manage our Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) SDDC.

Intro to Google Cloud VMware Engine – Common Networking Scenarios (Matt Elliott)

• Link: https://networkbrouhaha.com/2021/05/gcve-networking-scenarios/
• This post will cover some common networking scenarios in Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), like exposing a VM via public IP, accessing cloud-native services, and configuring a basic load balancer in NSX-T.

Horizon on Google Cloud VMware Engine Architecture

• Link: https://techzone.vmware.com/resource/horizon-on-google-cloud-vmware-engine-architecture
• This post provides information about architecting VMware Horizon on Google Cloud VMware Engine.

Google Cloud VMware Engine – Short Demo Video

• Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYBjhyuyG54&ab_channel=GoogleCloudTech
• This demo provides an overview of the platform and shows how you provision an instance and manage it – all from within the Google Console

Introduction to Google Cloud VMware Cloud Engine – Training Course

• Link: https://acloudguru.com/course/introduction-to-google-cloud-vmware-cloud-engine
• This course will teach you the fundamentals of Google Cloud VMware Engine

How to use multi-VPC networking in Google Cloud VMware Engine

• Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/how-to-use-multi-vpcs-with-google-cloud-vmware-engine
• This post explores in more detail the benefits and use cases that multi-VPC networking enables

How to leverage global address resolution using Cloud DNS in Google Cloud VMware Engine

• Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/vmware-engine/how-to-use-cloud-dns-with-google-cloud-vmware-engine
• This post explains how to leverage Google Cloud DNS with GCVE