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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

Summary of Azure VMware Solution, Roadmap, and Best Practices

AVS is a first-party Microsoft Azure service developed in conjunction with VMware that provides a familiar vSphere-based, single-tenant private cloud on Azure that is like the one used by VMware. The VMware technology stack consists of the following components: vSphere, NSX-T, vSAN, and HCX. AVS is installed on dedicated infrastructure in Azure data centers and runs natively on that infrastructure. In comparison with existing on-premises VMware infrastructures, AVS provides a consistent and well-known user experience. Customers may deploy an AVS environment in a matter of hours and migrate VM resources in a matter of minutes. Microsoft supplies all the networking, storage, management, and support services that are required.

The following is a high-level architectural overview of how a customer connects their on-premises VMware environment to Azure and AVS. ExpressRoute Global Reach, a capability that connects numerous...