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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

Network and connectivity topology for AVS

As mentioned in the previous chapter, for both cloud-native and hybrid scenarios, implementing a VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) with the Azure cloud ecosystem has some unique design challenges to think about when planning for your deployment.

Some of the challenges we talked about in the previous chapter are as follows:

  • Hybrid connectivity
  • Reliability and performance
  • A zero-trust network security model
  • Extensibility

We will now look at the different networking components and concepts used to create the different connectivity medians for AVS:

  • Azure Virtual Network (VNet): This is the building block for your private networks in Azure. When you set up a virtual network, it looks and works like a traditional network running in your own data center. However, it has the benefits of the Azure infrastructure, such as scale, availability, and isolation. When you use Azure VNet, many types of Azure resources...