AVS delivers a comprehensive VMware environment in Azure allowing you to run native VMware workloads on Azure.
You can seamlessly run, manage, and secure apps across VMware environments and Microsoft Azure with a common operating framework while also capitalizing on existing VMware investments, skills, and tools and leveraging the scale, performance and innovation of Azure.
Organizations having invested in VMware in their local datacenter and in their workforce expertise.
Solution Highlights
- Seamless Azure experience, native integration
- Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows and SQL server
- Extend security updates for Windows Server and SQL Server (2008 and 2008 r2 editions)
- Single Point of Support and billing
- Automated Lifecycle Management
- HCX Enterprise Edition available
- High performance Dedicated hosts
- Simplified NSX Interface
Azure VMware Solution can help mitigate your challenge
Gain continuity, scale and fast provisioning for your VMware workloads on global Azure infrastructure.
- Rely on the operating platform and a robust backend infrastructure of Azure to run a fully featured VMware Private Cloud environment natively and at scale.
- Fast provision and gain elasticity to seamlessly add and remove capacity on demand while ensuring your business continuity with instant high availability, disaster recovery and backup services.
- Choose from a variety of connectivity options, including Azure ExpressRoute, and encrypt your data at rest and in transit with protected, high-speed, low-latency connectivity.
- Get a choice of dedicated, isolated, private, domains in Azure on bare metal hyperconverged, all flash, infrastructure.
Leverage your existing VMware investments, skills and tools. Maintain operational consistency with familiar technology including vSphere, HCX, NSX-t and vSAN
- Manage VMware environments using familiar VMware tools and get direct, native administrative access to VMware vSphere interfaces.
- Accelerate migration and minimize downtime using the latest HCX Enterprise functionality for large scale, live migration from on-premises to Azure.
- Centralize deployment, monitoring and support for the VMware stack and all datacenter infrastructure.
- Reduce change management and maintain operational and consistency for the business. Develop cloud skills overtime as administrators become familiar with Azure.
Leverage existing Microsoft investments in a flexible consumption model
- Three years of included Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, as well as SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 when transitioning to Azure including Azure VMware Solution.
- Leverage Azure Hybrid Benefit (AHUB) . AHUB allows you to bring your existing licenses to Azure and greatly
reduce costs. - Built with VMware, delivered by Microsoft, centralized billing and support for simplicity.
- Discounts for Reserved instances (and no cancellation fees). Azure VMware Solution offers 1-year and 3-year
Reserved Instances for dedicated hosts. Save 30-50% of the cost of a node.
Modernize applications running on VMware overtime through integration to Azure native management, security, and services.
- Seamless Azure Portal experience for unified management of infrastructure and VM resources that support hybrid environments.
- Modernize applications with the ability to connect them to Azure services such as; Azure AD, SQL managed instances, and analytics.
- Use Azure built-in management and monitoring tools to operate your VMware environments.
- Leverage Azure native public cloud capabilities for Disaster Recovery, Backup and more.
Use Cases
Migration Simplification
- Reduce Migration downtime
- Migrate current VMware environment to AVS without major changes or disruption
Data Center Extension
- Decommission / Consolidation
- Footprint expansion
- On-demand capacity
- Dev/Test
Disaster Recovery
- Create new DR capability
- Replace existing DR capability
- Complement existing DR capability
Application Modernization
- DevOps Management
- Access to Azure Services such as Active Directory, AI and Analytics
- Hybrid applications
MS EOS Workloads
- Seamless Lift and Shift
- Minimal Downtime migration
- Extended Security update 3 years for Windows and SQL Server 2008
Why BICC? We are Microsoft Gold and VMware Principal partner with a highly skilled and certified team having a huge experience from assessment, to positioning, design and implementation.
Proudly recognized as:
Microsoft Partner of the Year – 2020
Microsoft Partner of the Year – 2018
Microsoft Partner of the Year – 2017
VMware Services Partner of the year - 2020
VMware Project Delivery Partner of the year - 2019
VMware Project Delivery Partner of the year - 2019
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