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Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is a game changer for organizations looking to seamlessly integrate their on-premises VMware environments with the power and scalability of Azure. With AVS, partners can help their customers achieve their infrastructure modernization goals—from data center evacuation, capacity bursting to cloud, setting up a new and reliable disaster recovery site, and more.
What are the benefits of AVS?
One of the key benefits of AVS is the ability to run native VMware workloads on Azure without the need for any rearchitecting or refactoring. This means that businesses can easily move their existing VMware-based applications and services to Azure, taking advantage of the many benefits of the cloud while maintaining the familiarity and compatibility of their existing infrastructure. For example, customers and partners can still reuse their VMware skills to manage AVS, and cloud experience can grow with them organically until they become cloud experts.
Another major benefit of AVS is the ability to easily and securely connect on-premises and cloud-based resources, allowing businesses to easily and seamlessly move data and applications between environments. Organizations can take advantage of the cost savings and scalability of the cloud while maintaining the security and control of their on-premises infrastructure.
Azure brings exclusive and unmatched benefits to AVS, including free Extended Security Updates (ESU) for deprecated Windows Server and SQL Server, knowing that 75 percent of Windows Server/SQL Server runs on VMware. Read this blog to learn more.
AVS also inherits Azure Hybrid Benefit, enabling customers with software assurance to maximize the value of existing on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server license investments when migrating or extending to Azure. In addition, Reserved Instances is available for Azure VMware Solution customers, with one-year and three-year options on dedicated hosts, which could cut costs up to 50 percent.
What is the AVS Learning Plan?
To fully take advantage of AVS, it’s important to have a solid understanding of both VMware and Azure. To help with this, the AVS Learning Plan was created and added to the Partner Resources repository, which provides a comprehensive set of resources and tutorials to help partners get up to speed on AVS. You can also go there to learn about AVS events, best practices, enterprise-scale landing zones, and much more.
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Check out the AVS Learning Plan today for everything you need to know to start leveraging the power of AVS in your organization.
The AVSHub compliments the AVS Learning Plan. It provides a hands-on guide for delivering various AVS use cases. Partners and customers can leverage these step-by-step details to implement AVS configurations, migration, disaster recovery, advanced networking and more.
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