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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

Networking in AVS using NSX-T

By default, AVS includes NSX-T Data Center. AVS is preconfigured with an NSX-T Data Center Tier-0 gateway operating in active-active mode and a default NSX-T Data Center Tier-1 gateway in active-standby mode. These gateways allow you to join the segments (logical switches) and make connections in the East-West and North-South directions.

After installing AVS, you can use the Azure portal to set up the required NSX-T Data Center objects. It is designed for users unfamiliar with NSX-T Manager and provides a simplified view of the NSX-T Data Center activities that a VMware administrator needs every day.

Getting familiar with the NSX-T functionalities is vital, as this will be your default networking tool in AVS. Customers do have the option to use a network virtual appliance (NVA) as the networking tool for AVS. NSX-T is deployed with the following services and functionalities by default:

  • Segments
  • DHCP
  • DNS
  • Port mirroring

The...