Book Image

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

Adding an NSX-T segment using NSX-T Manager

The steps for this are as follows:

  1. From your NSX-T Manager portal, click on Networking | Segments. Then, click on Add Segment.
Figure 6.12 – Adding an NSX-T segment in the NSX-T Manager portal

Figure 6.12 – Adding an NSX-T segment in the NSX-T Manager portal

  1. Name the segment.
  2. Set your Tier-1 gateway (TNTxx-T1) as Connected Gateway.
  3. Select the Transport Zone overlay (TNTxx-OVERLAY-TZ).
  4. Enter your network CIDR IP address (x.x.x.x/x), and then click on SAVE at the bottom of the screen.
Figure 6.13 – Adding an NSX-T segment in the NSX-T Manager portal

Figure 6.13 – Adding an NSX-T segment in the NSX-T Manager portal

Now, you have learned how to create segments in AVS using both the Azure AVS portal and the NSX-T management tool. It is recommended to use different segments for different workload types or organizational segmentations. You can create additional Tier-1 gateways to further help you segment your different workloads.

In the next section, you will learn how...