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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

Configuring site pairing for vCenter

You now need to pair instances of VMware SRM on the protected and recovery sites, then establish a protection policy, to finish the process of securing your VMware vSphere virtual machines. Site pairing is the method used to connect VMware SRM instances. A Windows client virtual machine, or jumpbox, installed on the virtual network with access to both AVS private clouds may be used.

Once installed, verify that both the SRM and the vSphere Replication appliances are installed.

Configuring site pairing in vCenter

Follow these steps to configure site pairing:

  1. Ensure that the jump box device has connectivity to both the primary and secondary AVS environments.
  2. From the jump box VM, open a browser and connect to AVS vCenter Server and NSX-T Manager using the credentials that you can retrieve from the Identity pane in your AVS page in Azure.
  3. In the vSphere web client, click on vSphere Client | Site Recovery:
Figure 10.4 – vSphere Site Recovery...