What is Azure VMware Solution (AVS)?
Azure VMware Solution empowers businesses to harness their existing VMware skills and tools. It speeds up the process of digital transformation and migrating to the cloud while preserving operational consistency.
With Azure VMware Solution, you gain access to private clouds featuring vSphere clusters. These clusters are constructed from dedicated bare-metal Azure infrastructure. Each provisioned private cloud includes trusted VMware technologies such as vCenter Server, vSAN, vSphere, and NSX-T, ensuring a familiar and reliable environment.
AVS (Azure VMware Solution) has been designed to seamlessly integrate workloads virtualised on VMware technology into the Azure cloud platform. This integration brings together two distinct environments to assist swift cloud migration.
As a verified Microsoft service running on Azure infrastructure, AVS plays an important role in your journey to the cloud, aligning with your business’s digital transformation objectives.
By using VMware’s Cloud Foundation as its foundation, AVS provides access to familiar features like vMotion, ensuring uninterrupted service continuity.
If you are looking to reduce your data centre footprint, AVS can help by decommissioning secondary sites, and modernising business continuity and disaster recovery strategies.
With AVS, you can achieve the following:
Scalability, Automation, and Swift Provisioning: Benefit from rapid scalability, automation, and efficient provisioning for your VMware workloads on Azure’s global infrastructure.
Modernisation of VMware Workloads: AVS enables the modernisation of your VMware workloads by integrating native Azure management, security, and services seamlessly.
Preserve VMware Investments: Retain your investments in VMware skills, tools, and product sets, including VMware vSphere, vSAN, and vCentre.
Optimal Choice for Microsoft Workloads: Utilise Azure as your preferred cloud platform for Microsoft Windows and SQL Server workloads.
By employing AVS, your business can access additional capacity on-demand, whether consolidating, retiring, or expanding your existing data centres. You can smoothly transition to Azure using VMware’s HCX technology, maintaining familiarity with VMware tools, and eliminating the need for extensive reskilling or hiring of new expertise.
AVS ensures operational continuity when relocating vSphere-based applications to Azure, all without the complexity of application refactoring. Furthermore, AVS offers the advantage of seamless integration with Azure native services such as Azure Backup, Azure Security, and Sentinel, among others, enhancing your overall cloud environment.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS)?
Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is a service that allows organizations to seamlessly integrate VMware workloads into the Azure cloud platform. It provides a bridge between on-premises VMware environments and Azure, enabling a range of cloud-based benefits.
How does AVS benefit my organisation?
AVS offers several benefits, including the ability to leverage existing VMware skills and tools, accelerate digital transformation, maintain operational consistency, and harness Azure’s cloud capabilities.
What does a private cloud in AVS include?
A private cloud in AVS comprises vSphere clusters built on dedicated bare-metal Azure infrastructure. It includes familiar VMware technologies like vCenter Server, vSAN, vSphere, and NSX-T.
Can I scale my VMware workloads in AVS?
Yes, AVS allows you to scale and grow your VMware workloads on Azure’s global infrastructure, providing flexibility and agility as your needs change.
Is AVS compatible with my existing VMware tools and skills?
Yes, AVS preserves your investments in VMware skills, tools, and product sets. You can continue to use familiar VMware solutions such as vSphere, vSAN, and vCenter.
Does AVS integrate with Microsoft services like Microsoft 365?
Yes, AVS can be integrated with other Microsoft services like Microsoft 365 to create a comprehensive and seamless cloud environment.
Is there a downtime when migrating to AVS?
The extent of downtime during migration may vary based on factors like data volume and complexity. However, our experts work to minimise downtime and ensure a smooth transition.
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