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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

Use cases for AVS in an enterprise

You can migrate your VMware workloads from your on-premises data center to AVS and integrate additional Azure services with ease using the same VMware tools that you are already familiar with. However, while there are other advantages, we’ve identified the top five reasons why AVS is proving to be the most cost-effective path to the cloud for many enterprises:

Data center footprint deduction, consolidation, and retirement: Nowadays, we see many customers reducing their on-premises data center footprint for many reasons, including cost, getting out of managing data centers, and focusing more on their business. AVS helps customers reduce the size of their data center’s footprint by redeploying their VMware-based VMs on a one-time basis.

Additional data center: Customers are now able to increase their data center capacity seamlessly and elastically—while also adjusting their cost-on-demand for short periods of time. We see...