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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

Prerequisites to deploy AVS

In this section, we will cover the various prerequisites that you will need to deploy AVS.

Registering the AVS resource provider

One of the first things you will need to do is register the AVS resource provider (Microsoft.AVS) in the subscription to which you will be deploying AVS. This is required to enable all AVS-related features and functions in the specified subscription.

To register the AVS resource provider, please follow these steps:

  1. Log in to the Azure portal.
  2. Select the subscription that AVS will be deployed to.
  3. Under Settings, select Resource providers.
  4. In the search box on the right-hand side of the page, type Microsoft.AVS.
  5. Make sure Microsoft.AVS is selected and click Register:
    Figure 4.1 – Microsoft.AVS resource provider registration

Figure 4.1 – Microsoft.AVS resource provider registration

Registration takes a few minutes to be completed.

  1. The Microsoft.AVS resource provider should now have a Registered status:
Figure 4.2 – Microsoft.AVS resource provider registration
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