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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

Management and monitoring

When planning a public cloud solution, management and monitoring should be integral parts of your design construct, and AVS should be no exception.

Creating an AVS with optimum management and monitoring capabilities will help you get the best out of the solution.

Look at the following tips for managing and monitoring your AVS platform:

  • Keep track of the metrics that matter most to your operations teams and make alerts and dashboards that show them.
  • vSAN storage space is limited, so you need to keep an eye on vSAN capacity. When you use vSAN storage, only use it for guest VM workloads. VMware requires you to have a minimum of 75 percent free space on the vSAN to maintain the SLA. It is also recommended that you use Azure Blob Storage to store your backups instead of using vSAN storage.
  • A local identity provider is used by AVS. After you set up AVS, use a single administrative user account for the first configurations. Active Directory integration is highly recommended, since it provides a way to track the actions of each user.