The team of Microsoft Azure had launched the popular Azure VMware Solution, which enables its users to activate VMware natively on Azure. This Azure VMware Solution that runs on Azure by CloudSimple is a service that is fully managed that enables you to run the VMware platform in Azure.
This solution comprises of vCenter, vSphere, NSX-T, vSAN, and some other similar tools. The environment of VMware runs locally on Azure Bare Metal infrastructure on Azure cloud locations.
This specific service includes all the features that are needed to consume the platforms of VMware securely and effectively. This particular solution is provided by Microsoft to run on Azure infrastructure and is verified by VMware.
This allows its users to extend or move their on-premises VMware environment to Microsoft Azure.
One can move the workloads of VMware seamlessly to Azure and integrate with his/her VMware management environment by using existing management tools. This offers its users the time to modernize their workloads with the services of native Azure.
What are the features of Azure VMware Solution?
The features of the VMware solution on Azure are:
- Deploying VMware platform, as well as upgrading, managing plane backup, alerting, capacity/health monitoring, remediation, and troubleshooting.
- Self-service on-demand for providing VMware cloud environments.
- Facility to add and remove capacity if needed.
- Offers edge-type networking services like Public IP, VPN, and Internet Gateways. These services run on Azure and carry the DDoS protection and corresponding security of Azure.
- Underlies networking services that are needed to use VMware, including firewall rule management and L2/L3 services.
- Lo latency, and high-speed connectivity to Azure and also on-premises.
- Reservation of capacity to lower costs.
- Application gateways and others.
- Offers 24X7 customer support.
- Management features like usage, activity management, metering/billing, and also user management.
- Infrastructure is dedicated completely to the users and is isolated physically from the infrastructure of other clients.
With the use of Azure VMware Solution, a couple of vital scenarios are open for customers. Such as:
Crucial scenarios regarding Azure VMware Solution
- Expansion on demand
If you are working on your VMware environment and need more capacity on-demand, you can effectively extend it to Azure.
- Data Center retirement
If you need a straightforward and fast way to move the existing workload of your VMware, then Azure is the best place to host those workloads without the need to re-architecting them.
- Virtual Desktops
If you are running a solution of VDI on top of your VMware, then you can also host the infrastructure in Azure.
- Hybrid Cloud
It helps by opening up scenarios for organizations to run scenarios regarding hybrid cloud, without the requirement to switch your tools and re-architecting the workloads.
- Disaster Recovery
You can also use Azure as your crucial site for the recovery of your on-premises VMware workloads.
- Hosting those applications that are high-performing
The solution of CloudSimple offers a hyper-converged architecture that is developed and designed to run those workloads that are high-performing.
- Integrating to Azure
The Azure VMware Solution is not separated from the other solutions of your Azure environment. VMware on Azure is integrated into Azure, meaning it enables you to leverage Azure Resource Manager and Azure Express Route that help in deploying virtual machines on your VMware host that runs in Azure.
Therefore, Azure VMware Solution can help many organizations to work in a secure and effective way.