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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

Connecting AVS to your on-premises environment

Connecting the AVS environment to your on-premises data center is needed for virtual machine migrations.

ExpressRoute Global Reach is used to peer multiple ExpressRoute circuits together. In this case, you will use it to establish the connection between the AVS ExpressRoute circuit (DMSEE) and your existing ExpressRoute circuit (MSEE).

Creating an ExpressRoute authorization key on your on-premises ExpressRoute circuit

To create an ExpressRoute authorization key, follow these instructions:

  1. In the Azure portal, navigate to the ExpressRoute page. Under Settings, select Authorizations.
  2. Enter a name for the new authorization key and select Save.
  3. Copy the newly created authorization key and the ExpressRoute ID (resource ID):

Figure 4.18 – Requesting an authorization key from an on-premises circuit

Figure 4.18 – Requesting an authorization key from an on-premises circuit

Note that it may take about 30 seconds to create the key. Once the key is created...