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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

Business continuity and disaster recovery

AVS makes it possible to have one or more private clouds that have vSphere clusters in them. These clusters are built on bare-metal Azure servers. There must be at least 3 ESXi hosts in each cluster, and there can be up to 16 hosts in each cluster. As many as 96 hosts can be run in a private cloud at the same time. The solution comes with vCenter Server, vSAN, vSphere, and NSX-T as part of the private cloud offering. A 10-gigabit ExpressRoute is also a part of the default solution.

As robust as the solution is by default, a business continuity and disaster recovery solution is highly recommended.

Design considerations for business continuity in AVS

The following are the design considerations for business continuity in AVS:

  • Make sure to use a backup solution that has been certified for AVS. The following is a list of backup solutions that have been certified for AVS:
    • Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS)
    • Cohesity
    • Dell Technologies...