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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

AVS resource name

The resource name, for example, ABCPrivateCloud1, is a descriptive name for your AVS private cloud.

It’s critical to note that the name can’t be more than 40 characters. You won’t be able to create public IP addresses for usage with the private cloud if the name exceeds this limit.

Host size

The AVS clusters are built on bare-metal, hyper-converged infrastructure. At the time of writing this book, the host choices are AV36, AV36P, and AV52. The hosts’ RAM, CPU, and disk capacity are listed as follows:

Figure 3.2 – AVS node specification

Figure 3.2 – AVS node specification

Determining the number of hosts and clusters

The first AVS deployment you'll do is a private cloud with just one cluster. You’ll need to specify the number of hosts you wish to deploy to the first cluster for your deployment.

Clusters can be added, removed, and scaled. By default, one vSAN cluster is established for each private cloud. Three...