Azure VMware Solution Roadmap and Product Strategy
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Azure VMware Solution Roadmap and Product Strategy Ram Gowrishankar - Group Product Manager, Microsoft Eduardo Rosa - Partner Product Manager, Microsoft
Transcript of Azure VMware Solution Roadmap and Product Strategy
Azure VMware Solution
Roadmap and Product Strategy
Ram Gowrishankar - Group Product Manager, Microsoft
Eduardo Rosa - Partner Product Manager, Microsoft
Bring today’s VMware applications to Azure with
minimal friction - improve reliability, scale,
and cost ahead of transformation
Customer promise
Getting started with Azure VMware Solution
Use casesPlan &
DeployMigrate
Manage &
OperateModernize
Datacenter expansion,
reduction, or retirement
Speed and simplification
of migration/hybrid
cloud
Disaster recovery and
business continuity
App and business
modernization, dev & test
Skilling
Build
landing
zone
Migration
execution
Pilot/POC
Microsoft + VMware
Specialists, Programs, Partners
Create and deploy AVS SDDC
environment from Azure portal
in just a few hours
Connect AVS and VMware on-
Prem
Use VMware HCX to quickly
Migrate VMs
Visualize VM resources in Azure,
continue to manage with
vSphere
Self-service elasticity & scale
HITRUST certification
High availability, DR and backup
Low-latency ExpressRoute
VMware Cloud Foundation
• Native vSphere experience
• vSAN for storage
• NSX-T networking
• HCX for migration
Modernize apps with seamless
connection to Azure Services
• Central API Management
• Hybrid Hub and spoke
• Azure Security Center
• Storage Optimization
Azure Services
Familiar VMware technology Integration with Azure High performance cloud infra
Azure VMware Solution Overview
• Native vSphere support
• Fully featured networking stack
• vSphere management, vSAN, and
NSX-T
• HCX Enterprise now available to
support migration
• Management and governance
• Security
• Low-latency connectivity to Azure
• Leverage Azure ecosystem
• Single point of support
• DevOps toolchain
• Optimized elastic infrastructure
• Automated self-service
provisioning
• Dedicated, isolated, bare metal
infrastructure
• Redundancy and placement
control
• Security and encryption
Azure VMware Solution Software and Hardware Package
Model – AV36 (36 cores)
CPU- Intel Xeon Gold 6140 2.3 GHz
Memory - 576 GB
Storage vSAN Caching - 2 × 1.6 TB NVMe
Storage vSAN Capacity - 8 × 1.92 TB SSD
Network - 2 - Dual Port 25 GbE
Hardware Specifications
ESXi - 6.7U3 Enterprise Plus
vCenter - 6.7U3 Standard
vSAN - 6.7 Enterprise
NSX-T - 2.5.2 Advanced
HCX - R147 Advanced
*HCX Enterprise (public preview) monthly
Software Specifications
*Minimum 3 nodes per vSphere cluster
*Maximum 16 nodes per vSphere cluster
Maximum 64 nodes to an Azure Private Cloud instance
Azure VMware Solution: Global AvailabilityCanada
Central
North Central US
North Europe
West Europe
Southeast Asia
Japan East
Australia
East
West USEast US
Available
Q2 CY21
Q3 CY21
UK South
Region availability is subject to change
South
Central US
Australia Southeast
Central USUK West
Canada
East
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/services/?products=azure-vmware
West Europe
Available Now CY Q2 – 2021
Roadmap
*Releases shown on roadmap are not a commitment to delivery and dates are subject to change
*Additional regions in planning phase
Beyond
• Azure NetApp Files Integration• Self service identity management• Stretch cluster US and EU GA• Cloud SAN options GA• Gov Cloud expansion• More..
*Regions are not listed in any order within release quarters
• Customer Managed Keys• SRM, Other DR partners• Support led identity setup• Arc Management for AVS• Installation services for high
privileged apps • Scaled SDDC for 96+ nodes• Scaled Public IP for multi
tenancy• Stretch clusters – Preview• Placement Policies • Self service compute policies • Cloud SAN options – Preview• New NGFW partners • Gov Cloud – Preview • NSX 3.1.1 Upgrade
Provisioning and Management• Simplified Provisioning UI• PSH, CLI, Terraform (available upon request)• HCX Enterprise• vSAN Encryption enabled• Pre-enabled Storage policies, NSX Edge Large
• Connect to Private Cloud via ExR, S2S VPN• Easy scaling up/down on demand• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure-Horizon Enable
Backup-MABS, Commvault, Veeam, Veritas
Support and programs
• Azure Migration program
• Assisted white glove onboarding -FastTrack, CAT , GBBs
• Service Health Dashboard for Maintenance notification
• Azure Status page update for LSIs
Security and compliance• NSX-T policies• Distributed Firewall for E-W micro segmentation• Gateway Firewall for N-S traffic• NSX-T integration with Next-Gen firewall • Key vault integration• Privacy, GDPR regulated
• Audit logs – Customer actions, SRE action available on request
• Assisted Support -third party VIB installation on behalf of partners
• ISO certified
Azure connected services• Backup using MABS with Recovery
Services vault• Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel• Azure Update Manager for Lifecycle
Mgmt of Win VMs • Azure Traffic Manager to balance
application workloads running on AVS across multiple endpoints
• Azure App gateway for traffic to webapps running on AVS
• API Management to publish and protect APIs on AVS VMs for Developer community
• Azure vNet as Hub & AVS, Onprem as spoke for Hybrid setup
• Azure Netapp Files as SMB/NFS Fileshare on AVS
• Azure Fileshare integration• Azure SQL integration
Why to become a partner? How do we partner?
Why be a AVS partner?
Business proposition for partner... with special Microsoft investments
Unlock new market opportunity to
take on-prem customers to the cloud
Grow existing Infrastructure offering
Accelerate migration and
modernization timelines for VMware
customer base
White-glove Engineering Support /Fast
Track/ GBB for initial customer projects
Co-sell support and pipeline alignment, access
to specialized sales team
Access to sand-box and Standard OCP benefits
Marketing support & Demand generation
(Marketing campaigns)
Ongoing technical readiness and an opportunity
to become Azure VMware Solution advisors
CSPs
Customer
Microsoft Partner Network
https://partner.microsoft.com/
• All AVS SKUs enabled through the Partner Program
• Offered with the same benefits as Azure
• Customers have the same UX with the product, while partners can manage the platform on behalf of customers.
System Integrators (SI/GSI)
Unlock new market opportunity• Brand, products and services exposition
• Create new customer experiences for VMware-based
products and services on AVS
Grow existing Infrastructure offers • Expansion, Retention and Continuity
• Significantly reduce DC management complexity and
hardware procurement times
Migration planning and execution• Accelerate execution of cloud migration
Build your managed service practice• Hands-on practice build
• Watch session “Partnering with Microsoft”
Delegates
Operator Role
Azure Portal
Azure Services
Azure
Customer
AVS
Private Cloud
Assessments and Migrations
POCs
Manage on behalf of customers
Ecosystem
Watch “Partnering with Microsoft”!
Data Protection
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Security and Network appliances
Desktop as a Service
Monitoring and Analytics
Delivery platforms and Application servers
Enterprise Management
ISVs
BYOL Marketplace
Azure VMware Solution
Private Cloud
Download? SaaS?
Install (VMs, OVA, Scripts…)
SaaS
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