Use cases for AVS in an enterprise

You can migrate your VMware workloads from your on-premises data center to AVS and integrate additional Azure services with ease, using the same VMware tools that you are already familiar with. However, while there are other advantages, we’ve identified the top five reasons why AVS is proving to be the most cost-effective path to the cloud for many enterprises.

Data center footprint deduction, consolidation, and retirement

Nowadays, we see many customers reducing their on-premises data center footprint for many reasons, including cost, eschewing the management of data centers, and focusing more on their business.

AVS helps customers reduce the size of their data center’s footprint by redeploying their VMware-based VMs on a one-time basis.

The vSphere-based workloads can be migrated to AVS in a non-disruptive, automated, scalable, and highly available manner without having to change the underlying vSphere hypervisor.

Data center expansion based on demand

Customers are now able to increase their data center capacity in a seamless and elastic manner, while also adjusting their cost on demand for short periods of time. We see this kind of need in a logistic business, where customers need to increase their data center capacity for a period and then decrease that capacity once it is no longer needed.

Disaster recovery and business continuity

AVS can be used as a primary or secondary on-demand DR site for on-premises data center infrastructure by customers who require a backup data center in the cloud.

Speed and simplification of migration/hybrid cloud

AVS has proven to be one of the most efficient and straightforward methods of getting started on Azure without having to make any changes to your existing apps or servers.

AVS is very cost-effective

When it comes to running VMware apps on Windows Server and SQL Server, AVS is the most cost-effective option. If you use your on-premises data center effectively, you can save money by not having to purchase multiple licenses for both on-premises and cloud applications. When you migrate to AVS, you will receive 3 years of free Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows and SQL Server 2008/2008R2/2012.