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Azure VMware Solution

Score8.2 out of 10

32 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Azure VMware Solution?

Azure VMware Solution enables users to run VMware workloads natively on Azure. The user can move VMware-based workloads from the datacenter to Azure and integrate a VMware environment with Azure. This enables users to continue managing existing environments with the same VMware tools already in use while including Azure native services. Azure VMware Solution is a Microsoft service, verified by VMware, that runs on Azure infrastructure.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Azure VMware Solution has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Operating system support

    Range of operating systems available as pre-configured images

    Category average: 8.2

  • Security controls

    Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES

    Category average: 8.6

  • Monitoring tools

    Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected

    Category average: 7.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Pre-defined machine images

    Range of different server configurations available

    Category average: 8.2

  • Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

    The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA

    Category average: 8.4

  • Dynamic scaling

    Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs

    Category average: 8.7

Reviews

What users are saying about Azure VMware Solution.
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Benefits of Azure VmWare Solution

Incentivized
Peyman Haigh
Systems Engineer in Engineering at Salem State University (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it to build a DR solution. This is a project that is under testing and not complete yet, but the final goal is to have a copy of all of our VMs in our VMware cluster in Azure using the Azure VMware Solution.

Pros

  • Provide hardware and infrastructure for hosting VMs
  • Ability to backup and restore between On Premise and cloud
  • Make it easy to implement a DR solution

Cons

  • Make it easier to setup DR at Azure
  • Make it easier to build the tunnel between On Premise and cloud

Return on Investment

  • This is good solution for implementing DR and services in cloud
  • ROI has been good and although it isn't a cheap solution but it isn't expensive either.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Nutanix AHV

Other Software Used

Nutanix AHV

Azure VMware excellent cloud solution

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We need to have an open catalog for where to deploy our solutions, some on premise some in cloud. For cloud solution one of our prefered options to go is azure vmware to manage all our virtual computers on the cloud, our common are windows server and centOS, somethimes other but those two are our main.

Pros

  • Resource management
  • Easy to use
  • Fast deploy

Cons

  • More regions to deploy
  • More clarity on billing
  • Reduce latency

Return on Investment

  • Can be very expensive
  • Help to optimize projects
  • Easy to deploy

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), SUSE Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift and Oracle VirtualBox

Other Software Used

Oracle VirtualBox, VMware Workstation Player, SUSE Rancher

Azure VMware is a great upgrade for us

Incentivized
Verified User
Account Manager in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Fast transition from on prem old server infrastructure to full cloud ready VMware solution. Optimizes labour cost and replaces old school on premises servers. This has improved our projected disaster recovery times and overall resiliency.

Pros

  • VMware compatibility
  • Licensing included
  • Dedicated bare metal host

Cons

  • Cost would be my number one
  • Hard to use - particularly setting up networking components which led to some instability at first

Return on Investment

  • Downtime is reduced
  • Avoided lump sum investment to replace outdated server and network infrustructre

Usability

Other Software Used

Veeam Backup for AWS, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, Veeam Data Cloud for Salesforce, SYSPRO, Sage Accounting, QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise

Azure VMware Solution

Incentivized
Sagar MehtaView profile
Consultant in Information Technology at Atgen Software Solutions LLP (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

<div>- Virtualization at Enterprise Level</div><div>- Managing day to day stuff of Virtualization like Storage, Network, IP Management and Virtual Machines</div><div>- Can handle various operating systems from Windows, Linux, iOS, Ubuntu, RedHat and many more..</div><div>- Easy Graphical User Interface to manage day-to-day activities</div><div>- Very potent Command Line Interface to automate as well.</div><div>- Can integrate with solutions for Infra as Code with Terraform</div>

Pros

  • Create and Manage Virtual Machines
  • Multiple OS base Virtual Machines
  • Good Capacity Planning and Management

Cons

  • Incorporating SSL based authentications with Certificates
  • More easy Web based Interface
  • Integrate with Azure DevOps

Return on Investment

  • Saves very much time with automated solutions
  • Makes Project delivery very fast
  • Effective to save cost with Pay-as-you-use model.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

DigitalOcean Droplets, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Other Software Used

Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), HashiCorp Terraform

Azure VMware Solution

Incentivized
Thomas Weil
Network System Administrator in Information Technology at weiconet GmbH (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We migrated the VMware infrastructure to the Azure environment.It was a change. Although all the lock and feel is the same as the VMware environment, it's now a Microsoft service.Since we have mainly virtualized Windows servers and processes, the changeover is not noticeable to the user.On the technical side, the points are different but manageable.

Pros

  • Provision of the container-based applications
  • Protection of multi-cloud and bare-metal environments

Cons

  • Easier access to features and editing your own dashboard

Most Important Features

  • Seamless Integration: AVS provides a seamless integration between Azure and VMware environments, enabling you to easily extend your on-premises VMware workloads to Azure without the need to re-architect them
  • High Availability: AVS provides a highly available infrastructure for your VMware workloads, ensuring that they are always up and running

Return on Investment

  • Cost Savings: One of the key benefits of AVS is that it can help businesses save money by reducing the costs associated with maintaining and upgrading on-premises infrastructure.
  • AVS can help businesses improve their agility by enabling them to quickly provision and scale VMware workloads in Azure.

Other Software Used

vSphere with Operations Management (discontinued), Veeam ONE, McAfee Enterprise Security Manager