Puthiyavan Udayakumar - Design and Deploy Azure VMware Solutions: Build and Run VMware Workloads Natively on Microsoft Azure

Design and Deploy Azure

VMware Solutions

Build and Run VMware Workloads

Natively on Microsoft Azure

Puthiyavan Udayakumar

Design and Deploy Azure VMware Solutions: Build and Run VMware Workloads

Natively on Microsoft Azure

Puthiyavan Udayakumar

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-4842-8311-0

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To my mother and father, who taught me everythingfrom delinquency to conquest,

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Table of Contents

About the Author xi About the Technical Reviewer xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii Chapter 1: Getting Started with AVS 1

Fundamentals of Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure 1

Top Six Benefits of Cloud Computing 3

Three Delivery Models of Cloud Computing 5

Microsoft Azure Overview 7

Azure Region 10

Azure Geography 11

Azure Availability Zones 12

Microsoft Azure Non-Regional Services 13

Azure Management Groups 16

Azure Subscriptions 16

Azure Resource Group 17

Azure Resource Manager 17

Azure Management Offerings 19

Azure Monitoring Offerings 24

Azure Security and Compliance Offerings 27

Getting Started with Azure VMware Solution 30

Key AVS Capabilities 31

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Table of ConTenTs

Key AVS Benefits 36

Key AVS Terminologies 37

Inner Engineering of AVS Components 40

Summary 58

Chapter 2: Solution Overview of AVS 59

Overview of Azure VMware Solutions 60

Key Elements of Azure VMware Solutions 65

Compute Overview of Azure VMware Solutions 69

Storage Overview of Azure VMware Solutions 74

Network Overview of Azure VMware Solutions 80

Connectivity From On-Premises to AVS via ExpressRoute 89

AVS Workload and Application Mobility 92

AVS Management and Operations 96

Backup and Restoration 102

Shared Responsibility 103

AVS Security 106

Summary 112

Chapter 3: Design Essentials of AVS 113

Azures Well-Architected Framework 114

Solution Building Block for Azure VMware Solutions 120

Sizing Consideration for Azure VMware Solution 120

Azure Landing Zone for Azure VMware Solution 123

Azure VMware Solution Networking 136

Azure VNet Concept and Microsoft Azure Best Practices 138

AVS Network Topology and Connectivity 145

Best Practices and General Considerations for AVS Network Design 146

Networking Deployment Scenarios 148

Scenario 1: Default Route Propagation for a Secured Virtual WAN Hub 153

Scenario 2: With Global Reach Disabled, Third-Party NVA in Azure Virtual

Network with Azure Route Server 156

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Table of ConTenTs

Scenario 3: A VMware Egress Without NSX-T or NVA or With VMware Egress

from Azure VMware Solution 158

Scenario 4: A VMware Egress Without NSX-T or NVA or With VMware Egress

from Azure VMware Solution 160

AVS Identity and Access Management 161

AVS Security, Governance, and Compliance 164

AVS Security 165

AVS Governance 170

AVS Compliance 174

AVS Management and Monitoring 175

AVS Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery 178

Azure Platform Automation and DevOps 183

Summary 192

Chapter 4: Plan and Prepare AVS 193

AVS Azure Cloud Enablement 193

Azure Region 203

Azure Resource Group 206

AVS Compute Plan and Prepare 208

AVS Compute Host 208

VMware vSphere 209

VMware ESXi 209

VMkernel 210

VMware ESXi Deployment Preparation Aspects 214

VMware vCenter 216

vCenter Single Sign-On 219

vCenter High Availability 219

VMware vCenter Deployment Preparation Aspects 219

AVS Storage Plan and Prepare 231

Storage Virtualization Model 233

Software-Defined Storage Models 235

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Table of ConTenTs

AVS Network Plan and Prepare 240

AVS Management and Monitoring Planning and Preparing 252

Summary 256

Chapter 5: Deployment Essentials of AVS 257

AVS Deployment Essentials Overview 258

Strategic Deployment Considerations 259

Sizing Deployment Consideration 261

Build an Azure Account 263

Network Connectivity Deployment Considerations 264

Network IP Addressing Deployment Considerations 267

Essential Deployment Considerations for the Azure VMware Solution 269

AVS Essential Deployment and Connectivity 270

Stage 1: Request Host Quota 271

Stage 2: Build the Private Cloud 274