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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

Connecting AVS to your Azure infrastructure

Let’s walk you through the steps to connect AVS to an existing ExpressRoute virtual network gateway:

  1. The first steps is requesting an ExpressRoute authorization key. Navigate to the new AVS private cloud in the Azure portal. Select Manage | Connectivity | ExpressRoute and then click on + Request an authorization key:
Figure 4.7 – Requesting an ExpressRoute authorization key

Figure 4.7 – Requesting an ExpressRoute authorization key

  1. Enter a name for the key and then select Create. It may take about 30 seconds to create the key. After the key is created, it will appear in the list of authorization keys for your private cloud:
Figure 4.8 – The ExpressRoute authorization key

Figure 4.8 – The ExpressRoute authorization key

  1. Now, copy the authorization key and the ExpressRoute ID. These will be needed to complete the peering.
  2. Navigate to the ExpressRoute virtual network gateway that you have decided to use and then select Connections | + Add...