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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

Working with VMware Site Recovery Manager

This chapter will look at VMWare Site Recovery Manager (SRM) as a disaster recovery (DR) option for AVS. It is crucial to deploy a solution to minimize downtime of the virtual machines in an AVS environment if there is a disaster.

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is a native VMware DR solution that simplifies management and automation and ensures a fast and highly predictable recovery time is implemented. This will remove manual steps during a disaster and keep your business running as desired.

By the end of this chapter, you will understand what VMware SRM is and why it is crucial to have a DR solution in place for your AVS environment. We will also walk you through identifying the need for your company’s DR solution.

Using the supported scenarios, you will also learn how to deploy and configure VMware SRM for your AVS environments.

Throughout this chapter, we will look at the following areas regarding VMware SRM for AVS:

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