Today we’re happy to announce the general public preview of Azure VMware Solution in Microsoft Azure Government.
With this launch, we’re combining VMware cloud applied sciences with world-class Azure infrastructure in Azure Government, which is designed, constructed, and supported by Microsoft to assist meet the best ranges of presidency safety and compliance. Azure Government delivers a devoted cloud, enabling authorities businesses and their companions to streamline migrating mission-critical workloads to the cloud.
Azure VMware Solution is a totally managed service in Azure that prospects can use to increase their on-premises VMware workloads extra seamlessly to the cloud, whereas sustaining their present abilities and operational processes.
Azure VMware Solution is already obtainable in Azure business for any buyer, together with public sector organizations. With this launch, we’re extending the identical advantages of Azure VMware Solution to Azure Government, the place US Government prospects and their companions can meet their safety and compliance wants.
Continue studying to discover the best way to get began with Azure VMware Solution in Azure Government.
Accelerating the migration journey in Azure
Azure VMware Solution delivers a VMware vSphere-based, single-tenant, personal cloud in Azure Government. VMware workloads run on naked metallic {hardware} in Azure datacenters. Customers can rise up a VMware atmosphere with enhanced pace in Azure and extra shortly acquire entry to their VM sources whereas additionally accessing Azure companies, corresponding to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Monitor, or Log Analytics.
Microsoft operates and helps the Azure VMware Solution atmosphere and all the required networking, storage, and administration companies, which incorporates advantages corresponding to the next:
- Seamlessly modernize over time with Azure companies: With Azure VMware Solution, you may leverage Azure companies and additional modernize workloads in your timeline, corresponding to Azure App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Traffic Manager, safety, and analytics.
- Better streamline migration efforts with acquainted instruments and companies: With a unified Azure expertise through the Azure Government portal, prospects can combine their present processes and instruments “as-is” and run acquainted VMware know-how, together with VMware vSphere, VMware HCX, VMware NSX-T, and VMware vSAN. HCX Enterprise version is on the market at no further value, which lets you streamline information and functions to assist speed up large-migration efforts and scale back time.
- Maintain enterprise continuity and workloads extra securely on Azure: Leverage Azure companies on the general public cloud for catastrophe restoration, backup, safety, and extra to safeguard your functions. Azure permits prospects to combine VMware workloads with best-in-class cloud security measures, corresponding to:
- Azure Virtual Network integration offers perimeter community controls utilizing options corresponding to community and software safety teams and community safety options for functions such because the Azure Application Gateway.
- Logging, monitoring, and alerting options, corresponding to Azure’s safety info and occasion administration (SEIM) answer, Azure Sentinel, and risk detection utilizing Defender for Cloud (previously Azure Security Center).
- Customer-managed keys offers enhanced management over encrypted VMware vSAN information utilizing HSM ({hardware} safety mannequin) backed Azure Key Vault and certificates authority integration for automated certificates administration.
- End-to-end encryption safeguard information in accordance with your organization’s safety and compliance wants with Azure Data Encryption at Rest with all Azure companies.
Savings alternatives in Azure
Achieve financial savings in Azure with a managed infrastructure to increase or shrink your cloud atmosphere on demand as your small business wants change.
Savings alternatives on Windows Server and SQL Server with Azure Hybrid Benefit in Azure
Customers can leverage the worth of present on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses when migrating or extending to Azure. As a core Azure service, Azure VMware Solution helps Azure Hybrid Benefit, permitting prospects to deliver their present Microsoft workloads working on-premises to the cloud.
Get prolonged safety updates for Windows Server and SQL
Azure VMware Solution prospects are additionally eligible for 3 years of Extended Security Updates on 2008/2012 variations of Windows Server and SQL Server. These pricing advantages are solely obtainable in Azure and foster better simplicity and price effectivity to your journey to cloud.
Benefit from the Microsoft and VMware partnership
VMware and Microsoft have a long-standing partnership, and now greater than ever it is necessary we come collectively and assist prospects create enterprise resiliency, effectivity, and agility.
“As public sector prospects speed up their modernization efforts, they want the flexibleness and selection to pick the proper cloud for every software,” stated Jennifer Chronis, Vice President, public sector at VMware. “Together with Microsoft, we are delivering a modern, more consistent cloud service that will provide US government customers and partners with new options to migrate or extend their on-premises VMware environments to the cloud.”
Get began with the preview right this moment
There are a number of methods to study extra and get began with the general public preview of Azure VMware Solution in Azure Government. Please attain out to your Microsoft account staff for extra particulars on the preview, to supply suggestions on this launch you may contact the staff at AVSGov@microsoft.com, and to study extra about getting began on Azure VMware Solution you may go to the documentation web page.