Best practices for planning, deploying, and managing AVS

As a private cloud on Azure, AVS is a specialized infrastructure bundle with VMware vSphere clusters. Three ESXi hosts are required for the initial deployment; however, you can add additional hosts one at a time, for up to 16 hosts per cluster. vCenter Server, vSAN, ESXi, and NSX-T Data Center are components deployed as a part of the solution. Workloads from your on-premises VMware vSphere systems may be migrated or expanded to AVS. On-premises resources, resources in a private cloud, and additional resources in the Azure public cloud may all be added to your AVS private cloud.

Many business and technical considerations must be made while planning your AVS adoption journey, including scoping, architectural design, assessment, implementation, and management. As with any successful project, setting your goals and success criteria early on is critical to building the proper solution for the company’s requirements.

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