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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

Summary

AVS is a first-party Microsoft Azure service built in collaboration with VMware that delivers a familiar vSphere-based, single-tenant, private cloud on Azure. The VMware technology stack includes vSphere, NSX-T, vSAN, and HCX. AVS is deployed natively on dedicated infrastructure in Azure data centers. AVS provides a consistent, well-known user experience with existing on-premises VMware environments. Customers can deploy an AVS environment in just a few hours and quickly migrate VM resources. Microsoft provides all necessary networking, storage, management services, and support.

Throughout this chapter, we went over the critical design areas to help you design, implement, secure, and manage AVS.

Some of the critical design areas we covered were as follows:

  • AVS overview
  • Use cases for AVS
  • Enterprise-scale for AVS
  • Networking
  • Identity and access management
  • BC/DR
  • Security, governance, and compliance

You should now understand what AVS is and the use cases for the solution.

In the next chapter, we will go deeper into enterprise-scale for AVS and the available guidelines and take a deeper look into the overall architecture.