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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

Downloading and deploying the VMware HCX Connector OVA

In this section, I will walk you through the downloading and deployment of the HCX Connector OVA file.

Prerequisites

The following ports need to be open from your on-premises vCenter for the IP address https://x.x.x.9:

  • TCP 443
  • UDP 4500

Downloading the HCX Connector OVA file

The steps are as follows:

  1. Open a browser window on a computer that has access to your AVS environment on https://x.x.x.9 on port 443.
  2. You will use the vSphere credentials in AVS to log in to the VMware HCX Manager. For the username, enter [email protected] and then enter the cloud admin password and click LOG IN:
Figure 5.4 – HCX Manager login

Figure 5.4 – HCX Manager login

  1. Under Administration, click on System Updates | Request Download Link. You may need to wait a few seconds to generate the link if the box is grayed out. Then you get the following screen:
Figure 5.5 – HCX OVA file download options

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