In the diagram below we see an OCI virtual machine on an OCI subnet. We’ll illustrate its use with a simple diagram, then call out a couple of important notes. OCI offers two types of Internet access, the NAT Gateway and the Internet Gateway.

It’s not difficult when you know the steps, just not super obvious how you go about it until you do. This makes the task of giving general Internet access to our workload VMs, slightly more complex than in some other environments. Although the flip side of that “great” is that OCVS needs to use the native OCI Internet access services to reach the err… Internet. OCVS is a first-class citizen in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and has direct access to all the native services, which is great. Then, in the second post in this series, we’ll enhance our Internet access to allow us to publish services to the Internet, from the SDDC. In this post, we’ll look at the steps needed to enable our workload VMs to access the Internet. and have started to deploy workloads inside the SDDC, that’s awesome! But, now we want to be able to connect to the Internet from those workloads, and, just maybe, connect to them from the Internet.

Okay, so we have our Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS) up and running, we can connect to the vCenter, NSX Manager etc.

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