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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

Storage Concepts in AVS

You can use Azure Storage resources to extend the storage capabilities of your private clouds. AVS provides a native, cluster-wide storage solution using VMware vSAN. The local storage from each host in a cluster is utilized in a vSAN data store, and data-at-rest encryption is enabled by default. To date, the vSAN storage is the fastest storage available in Azure today.

An all-flash VMware vSAN software-defined storage system is used as the storage in the AVS hyper-converged vSphere cluster. When utilizing AVS, the sophisticated software-defined storage solution vSAN offers provides several fantastic benefits.

Throughout this chapter, we will look at the following areas regarding AVS storage:

  • vSAN clusters
  • Fault tolerance and storage policies
  • Configuring a storage policy
  • Azure NetApp Files

Each cluster host’s local storage is claimed as a component of a vSAN data store. With a raw, per host, SSD-based capacity of 15.4...