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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

AVS overview

AVS provides a private cloud environment that can be accessed from both on-premises and Azure-based infrastructure resources. Azure ExpressRoute, VPN connections, or Azure Virtual Wide-Area Network (WAN) are options for connectivity. However, to make these services available, specific network address ranges and firewall ports must be configured.

When a private cloud is deployed, private networks are formed for management, provisioning, and vMotion. These private networks will be used to connect to vCenter and NSX-T Manager, as well as to perform VM vMotion and deployment. The private network must be a /22 CIDR. This /22 is only used for the management components and not for your workload segments. You will need additional networks for your workloads.

It is possible to link private clouds to on-premises systems using ExpressRoute Global Reach. It establishes direct connections between circuits at the Microsoft Enterprise Edge (MSEE). Your subscription must have a...