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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

Deploying Azure Firewall to secure the vWAN

Now that we have a vWAN and a hub, we need to secure it by deploying Azure Firewall. In addition to securing the vWAN, Azure Firewall will also be used as the default route for all internet traffic from AVS. It will also be used for traffic inspection.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites for deploying Azure Firewall are:

  • A deployed vWAN
  • A deployed hub in the vWAN

Deploying Azure Firewall

The steps are as follows:

  1. On the Overview page of your deployed virtual WAN, click on the hub that you will be converting into a secure hub:
Figure 7.13 – Selecting the hub to be converted

Figure 7.13 – Selecting the hub to be converted

  1. On the virtual hub page, you will see that you have two options to deploy Azure Firewall to the hub. In this example, we will select the Azure Firewall option:
Figure 7.14 – Options to deploy Azure Firewall to the hub

Figure 7.14 – Options to deploy Azure Firewall to the hub

  1. After you make your selection...