Azure VMware Solution Accelerator
Our VMWare Solution Accelerator will help you accelerate your migration to cloud or to provide additional capacity to existing VMware platforms.
Why use the Azure VMware Solution Accelerator?
Accelerate cloud adoption
Leverage a VMware-to-VMware migration to reduce or eliminate requirements for VM reconfiguration, network reconfiguration or changes to application architecture.
Increase capacity
Access additional capacity to meet seasonal demand without requiring capital investment or facing lead times associated with hardware deliveries
Reduce migration disruption
Downtime of VM’s can be eliminated using the included VMware HCX technology to enable familiar capabilities such as vMotion.
Achieve seamless hybrid networking
Achieve a common, consistent network between platforms, allowing VM’s to communicate wherever they are hosted and facilitating migration of VM’s between platforms.
Improved operational efficiency
Your users can continue to use familiar tools to manage the AVS platform without requiring investment in additional training.
Reduce costs
Customers with Software Assurance for Windows Server and SQL Server can reduce costs and re-use that investment with AVS.
Ideal for organisations who:
We would recommend this Accelerator for organisations that are in the following situations:
- Want to migrate to cloud but are concerned they won’t achieve a traditional cloud migration in the timelines necessary for avoiding new investment in legacy datacentres (e.g. hardware refresh or contract renewal).
- Have existing VMware platforms who wish to replace or expand them but wish to avoid capital datacentre investment.
- Want to maintain VMware but are looking to reduce operational management requirements.
- Have concerns around the complexity or risk of a traditional cloud migration.
- Have concerns about their capability to manage cloud once migrated.
What outcomes does the Accelerator deliver?
- Deployment of Azure Bastion for secure management connectivity to the AVS platform.
- Deployment of a three node AVS cluster to host workloads.
- Integration of AVS with Azure AD for secure administration of the platform.
- Configuration of HCX to an existing supported VMware platform using existing connectivity (either ExpressRoute with the Global Reach add-on or site-to-site VPN using Azure Virtual WAN). HCX provides consistent networking with an existing VMware platform for seamless connectivity.
What are the benefits of using an ANS Accelerator?
Rapid time to value
Depending upon if a landing zone is required, ANS can deliver this accelerator within 2-6 weeks.
Fully extendable
as well as easy to integrate with other services.
Validated Architecture
Providing assurances around the stability and integration of AVS into existing environments.
Ready to move to the cloud?
If you’re ready to take the first important step towards cloud migration, our team at ANS is hands on to help. Get in touch to arrange a call-back with one of our cloud migration specialists today.