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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

Subscription identification

One of the things you will need to do is to identify the subscription that you will be deploying AVS in. You can use an existing subscription or create a new one for AVS.

An Azure subscription is a logical grouping of Azure services associated with an Azure account. You will need to have a subscription to use Azure’s cloud-based services since it acts as a single billing unit for the Azure resources used by that account:

  • An Azure subscription is linked to a single account used to create the subscription and is used for billing purposes. A subscription can contain numerous resources.
  • You can have many subscriptions for various reasons, including billing, because each subscription creates its own set of billing reports and invoices.
  • Separate subscriptions can also be used to create a division of duty for Azure services. The person who creates an Azure subscription becomes the global administrator for that subscription and has full...