Azure VMware Solution (AVS) 概要 (2019年11月版)

Editor's Notes

• #2: 2019/11/11 v2
• #7: The VMware Solution (CloudSimple) is an Azure compute service to redeploy and extend your most demanding VMware-based workloads to Azure. We provide a self-service, automated VMware-as-a-Service experience running on a dedicated, isolated and hosted private cloud in Azure. Innovate with Azure’s capabilities, scale and economics. Reuse your existing VMware tools, skills, and processes to manage your workloads on Azure without disrupting any network, security or data protection policies. Focus on creating business value while we manage your VMware environment and help you reduce costs.   VMware ソリューション (CloudSimple) は、最も要求の厳しい VMware ベースのワークロードを Azure に再デプロイおよび拡張するための Azure コンピューティング サービスです。Azure の専用の分離型およびホスト型プライベート クラウド上で実行される、セルフサービスの自動 VMware サービス エクスペリエンスを提供します。Azure の機能、規模、および経済性を活用して革新を実現します。既存のVMwareツール、スキル、プロセスを再利用して、ネットワーク、セキュリティ、データ保護ポリシーを中断することなくAzure上のワークロードを管理できます。お客様のVMware環境を管理しながら、ビジネス・バリューの創出に注力し、コスト削減を支援します。  
• #9: Each solution offers unique capabilities; however, in general terms the more popular customer scenarios include:   Datacenter / VMware Infrastructure footprint reduction and retirement, consolidation – Organizations will be able to reduce the datacenter footprint via “one-time re-deployment” of VMware-based virtual machines while decreasing their overall on-premises infrastructure. As part of that they will be able to ‘lift and shift’ vSphere-based workloads to Azure in a non-disruptive, automated, scalable, highly available fashion without changing the underlying vSphere hypervisor.   Datacenter bursting and hybrid cloud – For those organizations looking to seamlessly expand or augment for short periods of time their data center capacity on-demand by relying on the elasticity and flexible payment plans that the public cloud can offer.   Disaster recovery and business continuity – The VMware stack deployed in Azure can be used as a primary or secondary on-demand disaster recovery site for on-premises data center infrastructure.    Application modernization – Application developers will be able to tap into Azure’s ecosystem and modernize their applications without the need to refactor their existing VMware-based workloads. Note: if customer is looking for DaaS/VDI solutions redirect to Microsoft, Horizon
• #21: Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple is an Azure service that allows you to run your VMware workloads natively on Azure. We provide and support the management systems, networking services, operating platform and backend infrastructure required to run native VMware environments at scale in Azure. With this solution you will be able to deploy your VMware workloads on a dedicated, high-performance and single-tenant environment on Azure. You will be able to provision, expand and shrink on-demand your VMware infrastructure in minutes while continuing to operate your VMware environment on Azure the same way you do on-premises. Benefit from the Azure economies of scale without the complexity of re-architecting your applications. Modernize and enhance your applications at your own pace. The solution is supported, verified and certified by VMware and can be integrated with Azure and third-party services. The Azure Service Integration Platform Automates a bunch of manual tasks for integrating with Azure services (think AD) Elevates user privileges to integrate solutions Configures virtual networking for vLans, routing and privacy.  So this is an architecture / networking solution that enables users to easily provision AD, back up and DR.
• #22: Ability to Add / remove VMware hosts in mins with push of button through Azure Portal Support for 16 hosts per cluster Elastic capacity (managed service) Keep VMware investments in technology and people Microsoft supported solution Access to Azure services over Microsoft Peering or public peering Azure ARM integration for VMware VM’s to perform CRUD operations Automation with Terraform or similar Specific capabilities include Control plane for elasticity, isolation and scalable, multi-tenant deployment.  Dedicated Networking environment for high performance, compatibility and isolation Edge networking services in Azure to offer compatibility with express route and at the same time security and DDoS protection of Azure Cloud Unique, integrated end-user VM management in the Azure portal to unified DevOps and Identities. Unique solutions that lower TCO and provide ability to leverage Azure services and innovation
• #24: Title consistency The underlying infrastructure features Azure bare-metal servers equipped with Intel Xeon Skylake processors. Each node offers up to 72vCPUs (36 physical cores), up to 512 GB of RAM, up to 3.2TB of NVMe cache storage and up to 11.25TB of flash storage per cluster. For a more detailed set of specifications please refer to the pricing pages and documentation. Currently a minimum of three hosts are required to enable fault tolerance on the vSAN storage level (FTT 1). More hardware configurations will be added in future.
• #25: At the time of the release, VMware vSphere 6.7U1b was supported. The hypervisor is maintained by Microsoft. No host-level access is allowed but a ‘just in time’ privileged access feature is included to enable access to VMware or other third-parties. You will be able to use VMware native capabilities for migration. For large scale migrations, VMware HCX is included as part of the service. You can also use third-party tools provided by vendors such as Zerto, Veeam, etc. We guarantee 99.9% SLA. Customers will not have direct access to the baremetal hosts JIT access is a feature supported by one of the providers to allow customers to have safe “just in time” access to the baremetal for a timed period to allow customers to install their third party software on the host. Permissions are removed after. Customers will not need to worry about patching and updates, this is done by the provider, maintenance windows are defined and given to customers. Rolling upgrades on the hosts will ensure downtime stays within SLA levels of 99.9%. 3-16 Nodes per cluster (64 max per private cloud)
• #27: The storage infrastructure is based on hyperconverged vSAN, which features all-flash SSD-based persistent storage and NVMe cache storage (up to 3.2TB.) You can easily expand storage by adding more nodes. In addition, you can use Azure Storage for your vSphere templates and other similar content. You can also access Azure services, including Azure storage directly from your VMware Virtual Machines. You can dynamically grow or shrink storage capacity in minutes, vSAN enables high-availability and reliable storage and vSAN storage policies are fully supported. Support for KMS encryption solutions. Azure Backup can be used in conjunction with the Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple. In addition, you can continue to use your existing VMware or third-party tools such as Zerto and Veeam, for example, among others. VMware in Azure uses Hyperconverged infrastructure and vSAN as storage option. Additional “native” storage options may be added at a later stage. VMware workloads deployed can make full use of storage offerings in Azure such as Azure storage and or Netapp.
• #28: NSX-T is built-in including full support for micro segmentation. Underlay network segmentation is provided via VLAN and network security groups. Edge services for access via VPN, public IP, and internet. Full connectivity to Azure network including on-premises environments is available via ExpressRoute. Full self-service management via Azure Portal. You have dedicated bandwidth up to 50 Gbps for East-West communication between VMs in the VMware cluster. You can encrypt data at rest and in transit using your preferred methods. We publish an example architecture using HyTrust, a decentralized key management system (KMS) that allows you to encrypt the data at rest. In addition, other VMware-compatible KMSs can be used.
• #31: You can continue to use the same standard suite of VMware tools that you are using today to manage your VMware on-premises environments. The service includes vCenter and NSX and you can directly access the system via UI, Power CLI or API calls. You can also manage the environment using tools such as vRealize Automation, Service Now or others from on-premise environments. Additionally, you can view and create VMware vSphere-based VMs in the familiar Azure Portal. We also offer Azure Resource Manager (ARM) integration. You can also develop and deploy applications across your VMware environment and Azure through Azure Cloud APIs. We provide integrated identity management across VMware and Azure environments in addition to support for key features such as access control, audit logging, alerting and metrics management as well as Azure Monitor.
• #32: Use existing tools and processes -> nothing to learn Optimize the admin of VMware environment with Azure Unify your management between VMware and Azure Day 0 – instantiate the service Day 1 – configure Day 2 – deploy your workloads
• #33: VMware Tools are the admins Dev – users on the right wrt audience.
• #34: ARM integration will allow customers to manage both VMware and Azure resources (VM’s) through ARM in Azure portal. VMware VM’s can be created, deleted, started and stopped. This is not to replace existing VMware tools but instead providing support for popular third-party dev-ops tooling. Optimizing older VMware environments with IaC not possible. Because of the integration with Azure customers can now take advantage of these capabilities and manage Azure and the VMware environment as IaC.
• #38: Once you are authorized to gain access the portal - Once the initial configuration is done the customer will have single sign on access to the solution provider portal for further configuration options. Additional hosts can be provisioned and added or removed from the cluster.
• #39: ASR
• #44: The VMware Solution (CloudSimple) is an Azure compute service to redeploy and extend your most demanding VMware-based workloads to Azure. We provide a self-service, automated VMware-as-a-Service experience running on a dedicated, isolated and hosted private cloud in Azure. Innovate with Azure’s capabilities, scale and economics. Reuse your existing VMware tools, skills, and processes to manage your workloads on Azure without disrupting any network, security or data protection policies. Focus on creating business value while we manage your VMware environment and help you reduce costs.   VMware ソリューション (CloudSimple) は、最も要求の厳しい VMware ベースのワークロードを Azure に再デプロイおよび拡張するための Azure コンピューティング サービスです。Azure の専用の分離型およびホスト型プライベート クラウド上で実行される、セルフサービスの自動 VMware サービス エクスペリエンスを提供します。Azure の機能、規模、および経済性を活用して革新を実現します。既存のVMwareツール、スキル、プロセスを再利用して、ネットワーク、セキュリティ、データ保護ポリシーを中断することなくAzure上のワークロードを管理できます。お客様のVMware環境を管理しながら、ビジネス・バリューの創出に注力し、コスト削減を支援します。