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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

Configuring DHCP for AVS

In this section, I will walk you through the steps to create a DHCP server using the Azure portal.

In a private cloud environment, applications and workloads need name resolution (DNS) and DHCP services for IP address allocation. You’ll need a good DHCP and DNS infrastructure to deliver these services. You can construct a VM to provide these services in a private cloud environment.

It is recommended that, instead of forwarding broadcast DHCP traffic across the WAN back to on-premises, you utilize the DHCP service integrated into NSX or a local DHCP server in the private cloud.

A DHCP server or DHCP relay is needed before you can create an NSX-T segment if you plan to use DHCP in AVS.

Prerequisites

You will need an AVS infrastructure with access to the NSX-T Manager and the vCenter Server interfaces.

Using the Azure portal to create a DHCP server or relay for AVS

From the Azure portal, you can create a DHCP server or relay. These...