The Ins and Outs of Azure VMware Solution Deploy, Configure, and Manage an Azure VMware Solution Environment
Manage VMware workloads in Azure VMware Solution and enable hybrid connectivity between on-premises datacenters and Azure with this extensive guide focusing on best practices and use cases Key Features Extend or migrate your existing VMware environment to Azure VMware Solution smoothly Discover best...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham :
Packt Publishing, Limited
2023.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009711812506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part 1: Getting Started with Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Azure VMware Solution
- Network connectivity to AVS
- AVS hosts, clusters, and private clouds
- AVS high-level architecture
- Use cases for AVS in an enterprise
- Data center footprint deduction, consolidation, and retirement
- Data center expansion based on demand
- Disaster recovery and business continuity
- Speed and simplification of migration/hybrid cloud
- AVS is very cost-effective
- Enterprise-scale for AVS
- Prerequisites for the implementation of the enterprise-scale landing zone for AVS
- Network and connectivity topologies
- Identity and access management
- Business continuity and disaster recovery
- Design considerations for AVS BC
- Design considerations for AVS DR
- Security, governance, and compliance
- Security
- Governance
- Compliance
- Management and monitoring
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Enterprise-Scale for AVS
- Network and connectivity topology for AVS
- Understanding networking requirements for AVS
- Networking scenarios for AVS with traffic inspection
- Identity and access management for AVS
- vCenter privileges
- Business continuity and disaster recovery
- Design considerations for business continuity in AVS
- The recommended design considerations for business continuity in AVS
- Design considerations for AVS disaster recovery
- Summary
- Part 2: Planning and Deploying AVS
- Chapter 3: Planning for an Azure VMware Solution Deployment
- Subscription identification
- Resource group identification
- Azure region
- Region pairs in Azure
- AVS resource name
- Host size
- Determining the number of hosts and clusters
- Host quota request for AVS
- Requesting a /22 CIDR IP segment for AVS management components.
- Defining the AVS workload network segments
- Defining the virtual network gateway
- VMware HCX
- Why use VMware HCX?
- Defining VMware HCX network segments
- HCX appliance IP requirements
- HCX port requirements
- Benefits of extending the L2 network to AVS
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Deploying an Azure VMware Solution Cluster
- Prerequisites to deploy AVS
- Registering the AVS resource provider
- Deploying an AVS cluster
- The basic information needed to deploy AVS
- AVS deployment validation
- Connecting AVS to your Azure infrastructure
- Validating the connection between AVS and Azure
- Connecting AVS to your on-premises environment
- Creating an ExpressRoute authorization key on your on-premises ExpressRoute circuit
- Peering AVS with your on-premises environment
- Validating the connection between AVS and on-premises
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Deploying and Configuring HCX in Azure VMware Solution
- Prerequisites for deploying HCX Advanced
- Deploying HCX Advanced using the Azure portal
- Downloading and deploying the VMware HCX Connector OVA
- Prerequisites
- Downloading the HCX Connector OVA file
- Deploying the VMware HCX Connector OVA
- Activating VMware HCX
- Configuring the on-premises HCX Connector
- Adding a site pairing
- Creating network profiles
- Creating a compute profile
- Creating a Service Mesh
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Networking in AVS using NSX-T
- Configuring DHCP for AVS
- Prerequisites
- Using the Azure portal to create a DHCP server or relay for AVS
- Adding an NSX-T segment using the Azure portal
- Adding an NSX-T segment using NSX-T Manager
- Verifying the newly created network segment
- Configuring DNS for AVS
- Configuring a DNS forwarder
- DNS name resolution verification for AVS
- Deploying a test VM and connecting it to the newly created segment.
- Moving a VM to a different network segment
- Summary
- Part 3: Configuring Your AVS
- Chapter 7: Creating and Configuring a Secure vWAN Hub for Internet Connectivity
- Azure vWAN in Azure
- Advantages of a vWAN
- vWAN types
- Creating a vWAN in Azure
- Prerequisites
- Creating a virtual hub and an ExpressRoute Gateway in the vWAN
- Connecting the AVS ExpressRoute circuit to the hub gateway
- Changing the size of the gateway
- Deploying Azure Firewall to secure the vWAN
- Prerequisites
- Deploying Azure Firewall
- Creating an Azure Firewall policy for the AVS internet connection
- Adding a rule to the firewall policy
- Associating the Firewall policy with the hub
- Routing the AVS traffic to the vWAN hub
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Inspecting Traffic for AVS
- Internet consideration design options for AVS
- SNAT managed from AVS
- Public IP to the AVS NSX Edge
- Some considerations for which option you choose to utilize
- Implementing an NVA solution for traffic inspection
- Prerequisites
- Creating a virtual network
- Deploying an Azure Route Server
- Deploying a Quagga using an NVA
- Configuring the Route Server peering
- Checking the learned routes on the Route Server and the Quagga NVA
- Summary
- CChapter 9: Storage Concepts in AVS
- Fault tolerance and storage policies
- Configuring a storage policy
- Prerequisites
- Listing all storage policies
- Setting a storage policy for a VM
- Specifying the default storage policy for an AVS cluster
- Encryption of data at rest
- Azure NetApp Files
- Prerequisites
- Creating a NetApp Files volume for AVS
- Creating a NetApp account
- Creating a capacity pool for Azure NetApp Files
- Delegating a subnet to Azure NetApp Files
- Creating an NFS volume for Azure NetApp Files
- Attaching an Azure NetApp Files volume to an AVS cluster
- Supported regions.
- Performance best practices
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Working with VMware Site Recovery Manager
- Understanding what SRM in AVS is
- Business continuity and disaster recovery
- Identifying your company's business continuity and disaster recovery needs
- Supported scenarios for SRM
- BCDR support types used by SRM
- Installing SRM in your primary and secondary AVS environments
- Deploying SRM in AVS
- Installing the vSphere Replication appliance
- Configuring site pairing for vCenter
- Configuring site pairing in vCenter
- Connecting the SRM instances on both the protected and recovery sites
- Configuring mapping between both the primary and secondary SRM sites
- Creating a new network mapping
- Configuring virtual machine replication
- Creating and managing protection groups for SRM
- Testing and running a recovery plan
- Running a recovery plan
- Summary
- Part 4: Governance and Management for AVS
- Chapter 11: Managing an Azure VMware Solution Environment
- AVS business alignment
- Managing and monitoring your AVS environment
- Configuring Azure Alerts for AVS
- VMware Syslogs configuration for AVS
- Prerequisites
- Diagnostic settings configuration
- Summary
- Chapter 12: Leveraging Governance for Azure VMware Solution
- A unified security and compliance approach
- Integrating Azure-native tools/services with AVS
- Security for your AVS environment
- Security for identity
- Network security
- VM and guest application security
- Compliance
- Governance
- AVS environment governance
- Governance for workload applications and VMs
- Azure-native solutions integration
- Use cases for Azure Files
- Key advantages
- How to create an Azure file share
- Prerequisites
- Creating an Azure file share
- Mapping the Azure file share to an AVS VM
- Summary.
- Chapter 13: Summary of Azure VMware Solution, Roadmap, and Best Practices
- AVS overview
- AVS hardware and software specification
- AVS high-level architecture
- Use cases for AVS in an enterprise
- Network and connectivity topology for AVS
- Understanding networking requirements for AVS
- Networking scenarios for AVS with traffic inspection
- Planning for an AVS Deployment
- Subscription identification
- Resource group identification
- Azure region
- Region pairs in Azure
- AVS resource name
- Determining the number of nodes
- Host quota request for AVS
- Requesting a /22 address space for AVS management components
- Defining the AVS workload network segments
- Defining the virtual network gateway
- Managing an AVS environment
- Leveraging governance for AVS
- AVS roadmap
- Best practices for planning, deploying, and managing AVS
- Architectural design for AVS
- Summary
- Index
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