Integrating Azure-native tools/services with AVS

By integrating Azure-native services into your AVS environment, your workloads will benefit from unified operations best practices for governance boundaries.

Some of the available Azure-native services and their descriptions are as follows:

• Native Azure integration: Connect to Azure services endpoints. Deploy Azure AD as the SSO identity source for VMware vCenter Server, for example.
• Unified VM management: A single pane of glass for managing vSphere-based and Azure- native VMs with standardized identities, access control, and monitoring.
• Single point of support: Microsoft develops, manages, and supports AVS. Microsoft serves as the only point of contact and arranges support with VMware as needed. This is very important as it prevents customers from opening support tickets with multiple vendors.
• Azure Hybrid Use Benefits (AHUB): Optimizes the use of current Windows Server and SQL Server licenses. AHUB and Azure...