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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

Enterprise-scale for AVS

Enterprise-scale for AVS is a collection of open source templates of Azure Resource Manager and Bicep that can be used with AVS planning and deployment. You can think of it as a roadmap for how to build a scalable AVS for future growth. This open source solution gives you an example of how to set up Azure landing zone subscriptions for a scalable AVS. It also gives you an example of how to set up the subscriptions. The architecture and best practices of the Cloud Adoption Framework’s Azure landing zones are used in the implementation, with a focus on the design principles of a large-scale deployment.

If you want to make your landing zone more efficient, you should think about how to make it more scalable. It is important for your organization to follow this advice when it comes to making design decisions because this will help it to grow.

There are many ways for people to use AVS, and they all work well. It’s possible to use the enterprise-scale option for your AVS set to build a structure that works for you and puts your organization on a path to long-term growth.

To assist you with your AVS setup, enterprise-scale for AVS offers the following resources:

  • Customizable environment variables that can be implemented using a modular method
  • Helpful recommendations to assess the most important decisions
  • A landing zone design that you can use for reference to set up your AVS deployment
  • A deployment that includes the following:
    • A reference architecture to deploy your AVS environment
    • A reference architecture approved by Microsoft

Prerequisites for the implementation of the enterprise-scale landing zone for AVS

The AVS construction set is based on the fact that you’ve already set up an enterprise-scale landing zone. If you want to learn more about enterprise-scale landing zones, check out the following:

There are multiple design guidelines that you will need to go through when creating your landing zone for AVS. The following is a list of areas that you will need to focus on when creating an AVS enterprise-scale landing zone:

  • Network and connectivity topology
  • Identity and access management
  • Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR)
  • Security, governance, and compliance
  • Management and monitoring
  • Platform automation

Let us dig a bit deeper into these design areas to provide you with some more detailed information.