Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution (AVS) enables you to integrate your VMware environment with Azure to deliver greater productivity and utilisation of investments.
What is Azure VMware Solution?
Many organisations are moving their legacy applications and in-house infrastructure to the cloud to meet the evolving needs of the workplace. Azure VMware Solution has been specifically created to integrate workloads virtualised on VMware technology into the Azure cloud platform, seamlessly combining the two environments for rapid cloud migration.
As a verified Microsoft service that runs on Azure infrastructure, AVS will accelerate your journey to the cloud and drive your organisation’s digital transformation goals. AVS is built on VMware’s Cloud Foundation allowing you to take advantage of familiar features, such as vMotion and High Availability for service continuity.
Azure VMware Solution offers an ideal opportunity for organisations that are looking to reduce their footprint in the data centre, decommissioning a second site, and/ or are looking at modernising their business continuity and disaster recovery strategies.
Benefits of Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution
By utilising the Azure VMware Solution, you can:
Get scale, automation, and fast provisioning for your VMware workloads on global Azure infrastructure
Modernise your VMware workloads with native Azure management, security, and services
Retain your investment in VMware skills, tools, and product sectors, including VMware vSphere, vSAN, and vCenter
Take advantage of Azure as the cloud of choice for your Microsoft Windows and SQL Server workloads
When using AVS, organisations will gain on-demand access to additional capacity when consolidating, retiring, or expanding existing data centres. They can also move to Azure using VMware’s HCX technology and continue to manage their environment using the same VMware tools they already know, without the need to reskill or hire more expertise.
You can ensure operational continuity when redeploying your vSphere-based applications to Azure and avoid the complexity of application refactoring, while also gaining the added advantage of enabling integration of your environment with Azure native services such as Azure Backup, Azure Security, and Sentinel.
Azure VMware Solution use cases
As well as transitioning your on-premises infrastructure to the cloud, Microsoft’s AVS also offers the following use cases for your organisation:
Flexible payment plans enable your organisation to easily adjust your data centre capacity based on your current requirements.
Get access to an on-demand disaster recovery site for your on-premises data centres through the VMware stack deployed in Azure.
Migrating your vSphere-based workloads to Azure will allow you to reduce your data centre footprint in an automated, scalable, and non-disruptive manner.
Update and modernise your applications without needing to start from scratch by utilising Azure’s service and partner ecosystem.
Your Azure VMware Solution partner
As Microsoft’s UK Partner of the Year 2021 and an Azure Expert MSP, our Azure Specialists are ready to help fast-track your organisations digital transformation strategy with the right technology for a successful deployment.
As a VMware by Broadcom Premier Partner, we also hold Master Competencies for both Data Centre Virtualisation and Digital Workspace, underlying our capabilities for supporting our customers with their digital transformations.
Your VMware and Microsoft accredited partner
Get ready to accelerate to the cloud
See the options available below to start or accelerate your Azure VMware Solution journey.
Surveyor Migrate is a service for organisations looking to quickly adopt or migrate their workloads to the cloud. This service allows for a seamless and rapid transfer of virtual machines (VMs) and applications, enabling organisations to capitalise on the benefits of Azure without the need for extensive modifications or restructuring of their existing systems. With Surveyor Migrate, you can transition your current on-premises applications and workloads to Azure swiftly, minimising disruptions and accelerating your path to value.
This migration process not only simplifies the transition but also ensures operational continuity. By leveraging the scalability, security, and innovation that Azure offers, your organisation can achieve new heights of efficiency and capability.
Speak to our specialists about SurveyorSurveyor Modernise evaluates your current application portfolio, offering a multi-stage strategic plan for modernising your portfolio over several years. This plan utilises Azure native services and aligns each stage with your business objectives, while also providing an estimated total cost of ownership.
This approach ensures a tailored transformation that maximises efficiency and fosters innovation. The result is not merely a migration but a comprehensive application modernisation that fully leverages Azure’s native capabilities.
Speak to our specialists about SurveyorAzure VMware Solution FAQs
Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is a cloud service that lets you run your VMware workloads natively on Azure. With AVS, you can migrate, extend, or modernise your existing VMware applications to Azure without changing the tools, processes, or skills that you are familiar with. You can also leverage the full range of Azure services and innovation for your VMware environment, such as security, backup, disaster recovery, AI, ML, IoT, and more.
Microsoft Azure VMware Solution includes the following VMware products:
- VMware vSphere: the industry-leading server virtualisation platform that lets you run, manage, and secure applications across hybrid cloud environments
- VMware vCenter Server: the centralised management platform for your VMware vSphere environment, providing visibility, control, and automation of your virtual infrastructure
- VMware NSX-T: the network virtualisation and security platform that delivers consistent networking and security for your applications and data across private, public, and hybrid clouds
- VMware HCX: the cloud migration and mobility solution that simplifies the process of moving and extending VMware workloads to and from Azure VMware Solution
- VMware vSAN: the software-defined storage solution that powers hyperconverged infrastructure and enables efficient and resilient storage for your virtual machines
Get started with Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution now
Arrange a free chat with one of our Azure Specialists now to discuss where your organisation’s at with its cloud journey and how Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution will help drive your forward.
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