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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

Summary

Throughout this chapter, the focus was on the importance of planning for your new AVS deployment. For a successful production-ready environment for creating new VMs and migrating existing workloads, planning your AVS deployment is crucial. You’ll identify and gather the many pieces of information you’ll need for your deployment during the planning phase. After a successful deployment, you’ll have a production-ready environment for creating and migrating VMs.

Some of the critical topics that needed to be identified were as follows:

  • Azure subscription
  • Resource group
  • Azure region
  • Resource name
  • Host size
  • Determining the number of hosts and clusters
  • Requesting a host quota for an eligible Azure plan
  • Requesting a /22 CIDR IP segment for private cloud management from your networking team
  • Defining the AVS workload network segments
  • Defining the virtual network gateway

You would be able to deploy an AVS environment...