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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

Summary

Throughout this chapter, the focus was on how to implement a unified security and compliance approach for your AVS environment. All your AVS infrastructure can use the same set of apps, allowing for streamlined management, better security, and a more consistent user experience.

Take advantage of Azure’s scalability, performance, and innovation while using VMware technologies such as vCenter Server, vSAN, and NSX-T Manager. AVS’s security and privacy can be improved by using vSphere’s role-based access control. Integration between vSphere SSO LDAP functionalities and Azure Active Directory is possible.

Monitor for vulnerabilities, transform risk vectors into regulating corporate policies, and expand governance rules so that they include Cost Management, Security Baseline, Identity Baseline, Resource Consistency, and Deployment Acceleration to evaluate and manage risk tolerance.

Integrate your AVS environment with Azure-native solutions that will...