Azure VMware Solution 4-Week POC

Azure VMware Solution (AVS) enables you to create a VMware private cloud environment, selecting the compute profile that best fits your VMware workload needs. Delivered and operated as a service, your private cloud environment provides all compute, networking, storage, and software required to extend and migrate your on-premises VMware environments to the Azure cloud, delivering a truly hybrid cloud experience. With direct access to VMware vSphere and NSX Manager, you will maintain operational consistency with your on-premises VMware clouds, while being able to leverage the economics, elasticity, and scale of Azure for your VMware private cloud environments.

Agenda

Week 1:

• Kickoff
• Meet with CompuNet project managers and project team to discuss prerequisites and dependencies (including providing access to Azure + vmWare environments)
• Discuss goals and desired outcomes of the proof of concept
• Align on project timelines and logistics (including scheduling, communication preferences)

• Discover
• Set up the Azure Migrate Azure VMware Solution Assessment
• Up to three (3) one-hour discovery working sessions, focused on (but not limited to) the following high-level topics:
- Current VMware cluster configuration (validation of minimum requirements, identification of risks) - Existing network topology / connectivity infrastructure (documentation of address spaces, NSX/BGP/DHCP/DNS configurations, etc.)

Week 2:

• Design
• Azure Landing Zone design
• POC design (AVS private cloud, Azure vnet, and AVS cluster design, identification of target workloads)
• Creation of architecture design documentation and diagrams, and associated Azure cost estimates

Week 3:

• Deploy
• Following approval of project plan (and associated estimated costs), CompuNet will collaborate with Customer team to:
• Make necessary configuration changes to VMware environment on-premises
• Deploy Azure Landing Zone core infrastructure
• Deploy Azure VMware solution private cloud and AVS clusters

Week 4:

• Test & Validate
• Migrate identified workloads to the AVS PoC environment
• Testing...

Plan for Production