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The Ins and Outs of Azure VMware Solution

By : Dr. Kevin Jellow D.H.L (h.c)
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The Ins and Outs of Azure VMware Solution

By: Dr. Kevin Jellow D.H.L (h.c)

Overview of this book

Organizations over the world are migrating partially or fully to the cloud, but with the whole slew of providers, tools, and platforms available, knowing where to start can be quite challenging. If you know Microsoft Azure VMware Solution, you know it is the quickest way to migrate to the cloud without needing application modernization or rework. You can retain the same VMware tools to manage your environment while moving to Azure. But how does it work? The Ins and Outs of Azure VMware Solution has the answer. This high-level, comprehensive yet concise guide to Azure VMware Solution starts by taking you through the architecture and its applicable use cases. It will help you hit the ground running by getting straight to the important steps: planning, deploying, configuring, and managing your Azure VMware Solution instance. You’ll be able to extend your existing knowledge of Azure and VMware by covering advanced topics such as SRM and governance, setting up a hybrid connection to your on-premises datacenter, and scaling up using disk pools. By the end of the VMware book, you’ll have gone over everything you need to transition to the cloud with ease using Azure VMware Solution.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
4
Part 2: Planning and Deploying AVS
9
Part 3: Configuring Your AVS
14
Part 4: Governance and Management for AVS

Creating a vWAN in Azure

Azure vWAN is a networking solution that combines a variety of networking, security, and routing capabilities into a single operating interface.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites for creating a vWAN in Azure are as follows:

  • An AVS environment that you will be connecting to.
  • You must have a public-facing IP address terminating on an on-premises VPN device.
  • vWAN creates and uses a hub, which is a virtual network. Get an IP address range for the Azure region where you will be deploying the hub. The address range for the hub must not overlap with any of the virtual networks to which you are connected. It also can’t be in the same address range as your on-premises or AVS address ranges.

Follow these steps to create a vWAN:

  1. Log in to the Azure portal and, in the Search resources bar, type Virtual WAN and press Enter.
  2. Click on Virtual WANs from the displayed results. On the Virtual WANs page, click + Create. This will...