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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

Summary

Throughout this chapter, we focused on configuring and deploying HCX in AVS and in the on-premises VMware environment.

VMware HCX is an application mobility technology that makes application transfers, workload rebalancing, and disaster recovery easier between data centers and clouds.

VMware HCX lets you move applications and infrastructure between your on-premises data center and AVS safely and efficiently. HCX provides high-performance, secure, and optimized multi-site connectivity to achieve infrastructure hybridity, and offers multiple options for bidirectional VM mobility with technologies that make it easier to migrate your VM workload to AVS:

  • Deploying HCX Advanced using the Azure portal
  • Downloading and deploying the VMware HCX Connector OVA
  • Activating HCX Advanced using the license key from AVS
  • Configuring the on-premises HCX Connector

As you have learned, VMware HCX plays an integral part in your on-premises to AVS migration strategy...