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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

HCX appliance IP requirements

The following are the HCX appliance IP requirements:

  • Five IP addresses for the HCX appliance
  • Four management IPs:
    • One for the HCX manager
    • One for the Interconnect appliance
    • Two will be used for the Network Extension appliance
  • One vMotion IP for the Interconnect appliance to participate in vMotion

HCX port requirements

You will need to make sure that all required ports (https://ports.esp.vmware.com/home/VMware-HCX) are open for communication between the on-premises components and AVS.

Please see the following diagram for the HCX port requirements:

Figure 3.9 – HCX network ports

Figure 3.9 – HCX network ports

Benefits of extending the L2 network to AVS

HCX Network Extension (NE) enables the extension of a broadcast domain from a customer's on-premises data center to AVS through a Layer 2 VPN (L2VPN). HCX NE functionality is delivered via a dedicated virtual appliance at both locations.

Customers’ ability...