Azure VMware Solution (AVS): 3-Wk Proof of Concept

VMware Workloads in the Secure Azure Cloud

• Gain Speed and Scale: Built-in continuity, speed, and scale with modern, managed Azure infrastructure.
• Leverage Existing Investments: Leverage your existing VMware investments, skills, and tools. Maintain operational consistency with familiar technology including vSphere, HCX, NSX, and vSAN.
• Azure Services Integration: Enhance your workloads with the Azure native management, security, and services.

AVS Quick Start Includes

• A workshop to envision planned architecture, security & understand broad integration and connection points.
• A finalized design of VMware in Azure and Pipeline deployment for proof of concept.
• Deployment of one Azure VMware Solution Cluster consisting of three Azure Bare-metal hosts, one VCSA, one NSX-T Gateway.
• POC is deployed via Coretek approved architectural patterns so that we can demonstrate best practices that do not come out of the box.
• Azure resources are authorized to interact with each other using Managed Identities.
• All secrets are populated in an Azure Key Vault, ensuring that no secrets are unsecured in code or elsewhere.
• Connect AVS cluster in Azure to Customer Gateway via ExpressRoute or VPN.
• A demonstration of one Virtual Machine Migration from on-prem vSphere cluster to AVS vSphere cluster.

Quick Start Assumptions

• Customer is responsible for Azure consumption costs after 30 days and will enable connectivity to the data sources required.
• Deployment of POC will be in a Non-Production Azure environment.
• Customer has reasonably secured the Azure subscription to support any sensitive data.
• Cloud Adoption Framework GAP analysis is a later phase, not included in POC.