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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

Best practices for planning, deploying, and managing AVS

As a private cloud on Azure, AVS is a specialized infrastructure bundle with VMware vSphere clusters. Three ESXi hosts are required for the initial deployment; however, you can add additional hosts one at a time, for up to 16 hosts per cluster. vCenter Server, vSAN, ESXi, and NSX-T Data Center are components deployed as a part of the solution. Workloads from your on-premises VMware vSphere systems may be migrated or expanded to AVS. On-premises resources, resources in a private cloud, and additional resources in the Azure public cloud may all be added to your AVS private cloud.

Many business and technical considerations must be made while planning your AVS adoption journey, including scoping, architectural design, assessment, implementation, and management. As with any successful project, setting your goals and success criteria early on is critical to building the proper solution for the company’s requirements.

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