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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

Deploying an Azure VMware Solution Cluster

Now that we have been introduced to AVS and planning for an AVS deployment, it’s time to do an actual deployment.

AVS gives you the ability to deploy a vSphere cluster in Azure within hours instead of weeks, as is typical when deploying a vSphere cluster on-premises. For each private cloud created, there’s one vSAN cluster by default. You can scale up and scale down as needed. The minimum number of hosts per cluster is three. More hosts can be added 1 at a time, up to 16 hosts per cluster. The maximum number of clusters per private cloud is 12. The initial deployment of AVS has three hosts.

After completing this chapter, you will have learned about the requirements needed to deploy an AVS cluster. You will also have learned how to validate a deployment and connect to your Azure environment and on-premises data center using different Azure networking solutions.

Before we go through the actual steps to deploy an AVS cluster...