Summary
AVS is a first-party Microsoft Azure service built in collaboration with VMware that delivers a familiar vSphere-based, single-tenant, private cloud on Azure. The VMware technology stack includes vSphere, NSX-T, vSAN, and HCX. AVS is deployed natively on dedicated infrastructure in Azure data centers. AVS provides a consistent, well-known user experience with existing on-premises VMware environments. Customers can deploy an AVS environment in just a few hours and quickly migrate VM resources. Microsoft provides all necessary networking, storage, management services, and support.
Throughout this chapter, we went over the critical design areas to help you design, implement, secure, and manage AVS.
Some of the critical design areas we covered were as follows:
- AVS overview
- Use cases for AVS
- Enterprise-scale for AVS
- Networking
- Identity and access management
- BC/DR
- Security, governance, and compliance
You should now understand what AVS is and the use cases for the solution.
In the next chapter, we will go deeper into enterprise-scale for AVS and the available guidelines and take a deeper look into the overall architecture.
