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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

Integrating Azure-native tools/services with AVS

By integrating Azure-native services into your AVS environment, your workloads will benefit from unified operations best practices for governance boundaries.

Some of the available Azure-native services and their descriptions are as follows:

  • Native Azure integration: Connect to Azure services endpoints. Deploy Azure AD as the SSO identity source for VMware vCenter Server, for example.
  • Unified VM management: A single pane of glass for managing vSphere-based and Azure- native VMs with standardized identities, access control, and monitoring.
  • Single point of support: Microsoft develops, manages, and supports AVS. Microsoft serves as the only point of contact and arranges support with VMware as needed. This is very important as it prevents customers from opening support tickets with multiple vendors.
  • Azure Hybrid Use Benefits (AHUB): Optimizes the use of current Windows Server and SQL Server licenses. AHUB and Azure...