All gateways must support 4-byte Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs).VSphere runs on bare metal hardware, leveraging all-flash vSAN. vSAN capacity limit: 75% of total usable space.Periodic updates and fixes, remediation of failures, and general support are provided by Azure.

Azure ExpressRoute is required to leverage VMware Site Recovery Manager for disaster recovery.ĪVS is jointly engineered with Microsoft Azure as the operator.

At the time of this writing, HCX 4.4.2 is the currently deployed and supported version of HCX on AVS.

If VMware HCX will be deployed and leveraged for cloud migration, a VPN or ExpressRoute connection must be established between the on-premises environment and Azure that meets the HCX Network Underlay Minimum Requirements.

This guide assumes the subscription is under a Microsoft EA.

A new or existing Azure subscription associated with a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) or a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Azure plan.

VMware Site Recovery Manager is the primary disaster recovery to the cloud solution. VMware Horizon on AVS is the supported cloud virtual desktop solution. VMware Tanzu Standard provides an application modernization platform, offering Tanzu Kubernetes Grid as a consistent Kubernetes runtime and Tanzu Mission Control for centralized management.

Networking extensions are available from NSX Advanced Load Balancer and VMware SD-WAN. Migrating virtual machines into AVS is facilitated through VMware HCX.ĪVS can be managed, monitored, and automated with the vRealize portfolio products. These core capabilities can be extended with VMware services provided by VMware products that have been certified with AVS. Azure VMware Solution combines VMware compute, networking, and storage running on top of dedicated bare-metal hosts in Microsoft Azure.ĪVS core capabilities are provided by vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX-T, and HCX.

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