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The Ins and Outs of Azure VMware Solution

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

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

Inspecting Traffic for AVS

When switching to the AVS, customers may want to preserve operational continuity with their existing third-party networking and security solutions (AVS). The communication mechanism has nothing to do with the NSX-T Service Insertion/Network Introspection certification process for vSphere or AVS, and third-party platforms may include products from Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks, and others.

In this chapter, we will take a closer look at the following topics:

  • Internet consideration design options for AVS
  • Implementing an NVA solution for traffic inspection
  • Configuring the Route Server peering

At the time of writing, there are three main ways to provide inbound internet access to resources in your AVS environment and to create outbound access to the internet from AVS.

Those three options are the following:

  • An existing internet service hosted in Azure
  • Source Network Address Translation (SNAT) managed from AVS
  • A...