Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is simply a accelerated and casual mode to seamlessly migrate VMware-based workloads to Azure, utilizing acquainted VMware tools and skills.

As customers measure the aboriginal of their VMware environments, galore take to halt managing on-premises infrastructure and displacement to a unreality level that volition enactment the agility and innovation needed to conscionable their needs for years to come.

Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is simply a accelerated and casual mode to seamlessly migrate VMware-based workloads to Azure, utilizing acquainted VMware tools and skills. It is simply a afloat managed VMware backstage unreality situation successful Azure that is operated and supported by Microsoft. It allows customers to determination VMware workloads to Azure arsenic is with minimal to nary refactoring. This streamlines migration, removes the request to negociate the underlying infrastructure, and allows IT unit to proceed utilizing acquainted VMware skills portion learning caller Azure skills. 

Azure VMware Solution afloat supports the caller VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) bundle from VMware. Whether you’ve already renewed with a VCF subscription oregon volition bash truthful successful the future, Azure VMware Solution provides the flexibility to tally VCF backstage clouds portion gaining unreality benefits.

One solution, 2 ways to purchase

All customers volition acquisition the aforesaid Azure VMware Solution managed service, but present you person 2 acquisition options: 

1. Purchase Azure VMware Solution from Microsoft with VCF included. 

2. Purchase Azure VMware Solution from Microsoft and leverage portable VCF subscriptions purchased from VMware. You only pay Microsoft for the Azure VMware Solution work and infrastructure.

Both options connection the aforesaid afloat managed Azure VMware Solution situation moving each the aforesaid VMware technology, ensuring a seamless and businesslike unreality experience. Work with your Microsoft spouse oregon relationship manager to take the close enactment for you, and to guarantee that you bash not request to repurchase the VCF subscription. 

What bash you get with Azure VMware Solution? 

• A afloat managed service: Microsoft manages and maintains the unreality infrastructure and VMware software. 
• VMware Cloud Foundation stack: In summation to the unreality infrastructure components specified arsenic vSphere®, vSAN™, NSX®, and HCX® that already existed successful Azure VMware Solution, VCF includes galore caller capabilities, specified arsenic VCF Operations and VCF Automation (known antecedently arsenic Aria Suite). 

• Free extended information updates for Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012 and 2014 connected Azure. 

• An situation that is 52% much vigor businesslike and 58% little successful c emissions erstwhile compared to on-premises virtualized datacenter solutions.*

Limited clip connection for 5-year terms extortion and 20% discount extended

Earlier this twelvemonth we introduced the VMware Rapid Migration Plan—a broad acceptable of offers to supply terms protection, savings and migration assistance to assistance you migrate to Azure VMware Solution.

Due to beardown demand, we are pleased to widen the promotion for the 5 twelvemonth reserved lawsuit (RI) and the 20% discount connected the 1 twelvemonth reserved lawsuit (RI) to June 30, 2025.** 

The VMware Rapid Migration program includes:

• Price protection: Reserved instances are a fashionable mode for customers to fastener successful pricing for one, three, oregon 5 years, and they see the flexibility to transportation the worth to different Azure compute options arsenic needs change.

• Savings for Windows Server and SQL Server: Windows Server and SQL Server are communal workloads connected VMware environments. With Software Assurance for on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses, organizations tin suffice for the Azure Hybrid Benefit discount to usage existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses for savings with Azure VMware Solution. Free Extended Security Updates are disposable for older versions that look extremity of support. 

• Migration support: Use Azure Migrate and Modernize to get resources, adept help, and backing from Microsoft and its spouse ecosystem.

• Azure credits: Customers that acquisition caller Azure VMware Solution deployments tin suffice for up to $240,000 further Azure credits valid for Azure VMware Solution oregon different Azure services.

Learn much astir Azure VMware Solution

• Discover the benefits of migrating and optimizing your VMware workloads to Azure by speechmaking The Ultimate Guide to VMware Migration and Modernization connected Azure.

• If you missed VMware Explore 2024 successful Las Vegas, you tin ticker our sessions on-demand. 

• VMware Explore 2024 successful Barcelona is coming November 4th-7th. Be definite to halt by our booth and attend our sessions. 

• Additionally, you tin entree on-demand sessions from our caller digital event. 

References

^{* Carbon footprint reductions volition alteration depending connected your circumstantial server usage, renewable vigor purchases you make, and different factors. For details, delight notation to The Carbon Benefits of Cloud Computing: a Study of the Microsoft Cloud, updated successful 2020.} 

^{** For afloat details reappraisal the VMware Rapid Migration Plan.}