In the previous blog posts (part 1 and part 2), we covered the deployment of the basic components of an Hub and Spoke topology including an Azure VMware Solution (AVS) deployment. In the first post we deployed and configured a mockup of Hub and Spoke environment. In the second post we connected the AVS environment to …

In the previous blog post, we have seen how to deploy a basic environment to start mocking-up an Azure VMware Solution (AVS) environment in a hub and spoke topology. In the last section, we discovered a glitch-in-the-Matrix when we lookup for the traffic between VPN and spoke VMs. We will see in this blog post how to …

If you are using Azure VMware Solution to run your VMware workloads on Azure, you might wonder how to connect it with other Azure resources in a secure and efficient way. One option is to use a hub-and-spoke network topology, which is a design pattern that consists of a central virtual network (the hub) that acts as a …

Introduction VMware Cloud Director Service (aka CDS) is a cloud service that provides a unified view of VMware based resources and multi-tenant support, allowing an IT administrator to split resources capacity between tenants. For tenant users, it provides a single pane of glass to manage all VMware-based, cloud …

In the two first posts of this series on Azure Arc-enabled VMware vSphere, we managed to extend Azure governance and management capabilities on VMware-based resources and to demonstrate the creation of a VMware virtual machine from the Azure portal. If you missed on of the 2 firsts posts: Azure Arc-enabled VMware …

In the previous post (part 1), we covered the capabilities of Azure Arc-enabled VMware vSphere: a solution to extend Azure governance and management policies to VMware based workload. We also deployed a Resource Bridge to establish the connection between a VMware environment and Azure. We can now explore vCenter …

Manage your VMware Datacenter through Azure Cloud tools Announced in private preview stage during the Microsoft Ignite on November 2021, the Azure Arc integration with VMware vSphere is now available in public preview since March 31th, 2022. The feature, still in development process, is now labeled Azure Arc-enabled …

After a discovery of Azure VMware Solution REST API through the Postman collection in part 1, we will use some of the fundamentals API calls through az rest, a useful subset of the Azure Command-Line Interface. Compared to Postman, I consider az rest an easier way to discover Azure REST API in a blog post as it doesn't …

Working on Azure VMware Solution since a couple of months now, I found very usefull to have a prepared list of API calls on a notebook or quick-reference document. After a period of time, I did collect enought sample to consider doing a full Postman collection and by doing that, I was also considering to cover the …