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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

Identity and access management for AVS

We recognize that AVS identification needs differ, depending on the AVS implementation in Azure; as a result, we’ll focus on some of the most typical instances:

  • There are different identity requirements for AVS based on how the solution will be utilized. AVS comes with a built-in user called cloudadmin in the new environment’s vCenter. This person has been given the CloudAdmin role, which gives them a lot of power in vCenter. It’s also possible to set up new roles in your AVS environment using the principle of least privilege.
  • Limit RBAC permissions for AVS in Azure to the Resource Group where it’s installed and the number of users who need to maintain it.
  • To manage vCenter and NSX-T, create groups in Active Directory (AD) and use RBAC. You can create custom roles and assign them to the AD groups.
  • The administrator has access to the vCenter [email protected] account in an on-premises vCenter...