Azure VMware Solution documentation

Learn how to use Azure VMware Solution to deploy a VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) private cloud to Azure.

About Azure VMware Solution

Overview

• What is Azure VMware Solution?
• What's new?
• Known issues
• FAQ

Concept

• Access and identity
• API Management
• Hub and spoke
• Internet connectivity design considerations
• Network design considerations
• Networking and interconnectivity
• Private clouds and clusters
• Run command
• Storage

Get started

Deploy

• 1 - Plan the deployment
• 2 - Deploy Azure VMware Solution
• 3 - Connect to on-premises environment
• 4 - Install VMware HCX Connector
• 5 - Configure on-premises VMware HCX Connector
• 6 - Uninstall VMware HCX in Azure VMware Solution

Tutorial

• 1 - Network planning checklist
• 2 - Create a private cloud
• 3 - Configure networking
• 4 - Access a private cloud
• 5 - Create an NSX-T Data Center network segment
• 6 - Peer on-premises to private cloud
• 7 - Scale in a private cloud
• 8 - Delete a private cloud

Enterprise-Scale for Azure VMware Solution

Architecture

• Enterprise-Scale for Azure VMware Solution
• Identity and access management
• Network topology and connectivity
• Management and monitoring
• Enterprise-scale business continuity and disaster recovery
• Enterprise-scale security, governance, and compliance
• Platform automation and DevOps
• Enterprise-Scale for Azure VMware Solution automation

Identity management

How-To Guide

• Access and identity
• Configure identity source for vCenter Server
• Configure identity source for NSX-T Data Center
• Rotate cloudadmin credentials

Extend Azure VMware Solution

Reference

• Create an Azure VMware Solution assessment
• Request host quota Azure VMware Solution
• Save costs with a reserved instance

How-To Guide

• Configure DHCP server or relay
• Configure DHCP on L2 stretched networks
• Configure DNS forwarder
• Configure port mirroring
• Enable Public IP to the NSX-T Data Center Edge for Azure VMware Solution
• Configure a site-to-site VPN in vWAN
• Configure Windows Server Failover Cluster
• Connect multiple private clouds in same region
• Configure storage policies
• Create placement policy

Azure native integration

How-To Guide

• Protect, monitor, and manage VMs
• Integrate Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Protect web apps with Azure Application Gateway
• Deploy Traffic Manager to balance workloads
• Configure alerts and work with metrics
• Configure customer-managed key encryption at rest
• Attach Azure NetApp Files datastores to Azure VMware Solution hosts
• Attach Azure NetApp Files to Azure VMware Solution VMs

Protect with Azure Backup Server and third party solutions

How-To Guide

• Set up Backup Server
• Back up private cloud VMs with Backup Server

Deploy

• Deploy JetStream DR
• Deploy VMware HCX for disaster recovery
• Deploy VMware SRM for disaster recovery

VMware solutions

How-To Guide

• Configure HCX network extension
• Configure HCX network extension high availability
• Configure VMware vRealize Operations
• Deploy VMware Horizon
• Deploy VMs from the content library
• Deploy disaster recovery using VMware SRM
• Deploy disaster recovery using VMware HCX
• Upgrade HCX on Azure VMware Solution

Partner solutions ecosystem

Reference

• Operating system support for VMs
• Backup solutions for VMs
• Migration solutions for VMs
• Security solutions for Azure VMware Solution
• Application performance monitoring and troubleshooting solutions
• Bitnami appliance deployment

Resources

Reference

• REST API
• Azure CLI
• Azure PowerShell
• Resource Manager template
• Terraform Azure provider
• Enterprise-Scale for Azure VMware Solution automation

video

• Playlist
• Integration with Azure Service
• Integration with Azure Application Gateway
• Migration and capacity planning

Move Azure VMware Solution resources

Reference

• Move Azure VMware Solution subscriptions
• Move Azure VMware Solution across regions

Troubleshooting

Reference

• Open a support request for deployment failures
• VMware tools vix error code = 21009