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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

Implementing an NVA solution for traffic inspection

The NVA solution will need to have an Azure Route Server deployed in the same Azure virtual network. This is because an NVA cannot communicate directly with the Azure ExpressRoute gateway that is also needed for this solution to work. The following is a high-level architecture of the solution that will be detailed in this section:

Figure 8.1 – Third-party NVA in the hub VNet inspecting AVS internet traffic

Figure 8.1 – Third-party NVA in the hub VNet inspecting AVS internet traffic

Figure 8. 1 shows the Route Server, the ExpressRoute gateway, and the NVA in the same virtual network. However, the NVA can be in a different virtual network if you need it to be.

We will now walk through the steps for creating and configuring an Azure Route Server and a Quagga network virtual appliance.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites are as follows:

  • An Azure subscription
  • Minimum contributor access in the Azure subscription

Creating a virtual network

A virtual...