The Ins and Outs of Azure VMware Solution: Deploy, configure, and manage an Azure VMware Solution environment

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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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