Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is a managed service that relies mostly on Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and VMware vSAN to provide storage capacity to host Virtual Machines (VMs) workloads. Each host deployed in the solution is providing its local storage devices and capabilities to the distributed storage …
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No, we are not switching to a music blog genre to discuss the "To the Moon & Back" song from Savage Garden (I am sorry if you were expecting that) There is no typo in the title: we are going to explore VMware HCX network extensions and the MON feature, aka Mobility Optimized Network.
If you are not …
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As you deploy Azure VMware Subscription for your production workload, you will need to monitor the health of your environment. In Azure Well-Architected Framework, this activity is an important part of the Operational excellence pillar.
Azure VMware Solution provides a set of metrics and logs that you can use to …
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VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Log Insight Cloud) is a log management solution that provides visibility across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. It enables you to search and analyze logs in real time, and it provides a scalable platform for managing log data. VMware …
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In a previous series of blog posts (posts: 1, 2 & 3), we covered the deployment of a third-party firewall Network Virtual Appliance (NVA) in Azure to integrate an Azure VMware Solution (AVS) deployment in a Hub&Spoke network topology. This setup enable traffic filtering for ingress and egress traffic to and …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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A few days ago, Microsoft released a new feature for Azure VMware Solution: Enable Public IP to the NSX Edge. I take the opportunity to review this new feature and the other options available to provide Internet connectivity to your Azure VMware Solution (both for In or Out-bound traffic).
Internet access options for …
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