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Ok, good afternoon. So thanks for joining. Uh, I would like to follow up uh on our today's keynote, uh, and talk today a little bit more about the Azure, uh, VMware virtualization, uh, because, uh, a lot of changes are currently happening,
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a lot of disruption within this VMware world, and these changes are pushing IT leaders uh to reconsider their strategy about the virtualization. Uh, and asking questions like what's next? So what are the options here? So first part we see is to stay with their current
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on-premises VMware infrastructure, making some cleanups, making some optimisations to optimise costs, or they considering switching to another virtualization provider like Nanex, OpenShift, and others, or to modernise their applications with Cubert. Uh, this, uh, takes, uh, requires some investments and uh takes some time.
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Or there is alternative options to move to the cloud to the one of uh public managed, uh, sorry, one of. HVMware offering of one of the uh public call providers and that's something what we are going to focus on this session today how how to enable migrations uh of your VMware uh into Azure so.
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Hello, my name is Vaslav Yerovsky. I work at uh 色控传媒 as a technical products, uh, specialist, helping our customers to make their public cloud journey successful. And here with me is Hussam from Microsoft. Hi everyone, uh, good afternoon. Thank you for joining us today at this session. So as Vlaus said, my name is Hussam Hilal. I'm a partner solution architect at Microsoft.
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So what I do is I work all the day with partners, enabling them on Azure infrastructure migrations, helping them building practises, building their skill set, and get them ready for their customers to start moving to the Azure ecosystem, right? So I've been 7 years with Microsoft and I live in Washington DC area if you're just curious.
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Before we actually dive in, I wanna just ask you three quick questions, right? Raise your hands if the answer is yes. And if you here running VMware vSphere on-premises today. Well, probably all of you. Great. And if you, and if you're looking at VMware alternatives for moving away from VMware into
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other virtualization platform. OK. Well, and if you have used or running some sort of services on Azure, could be apps apps on Azure, workloads, infrastructure, AI, any, some. Great, sounds good. And are you familiar with Azure VMware solution?
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Some, OK, great, fair enough. With that, let's kind of jump in right away to the describing what Azure VMR solution is. It's basically running VCF or VMware cloud Foundation in Azure as a many service. So Microsoft has built this service as a first party service where we built it with VMware, so everything is verified and um checked by VMware, so we're always competent from that
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perspective. It runs on Azure infrastructure. So we run it on bare metal hardware. It's not like nested virtualization or anything. It's just bare metal hardware running EXI hosts in Azure. But it's a managed service, so if you look at responsibility metrics, we manage various, you know, layers in that stack.
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But definitely VMs and applications and everything is fully customer, uh, responsibility, and they have the freedom also to manage Venter and manage, you know, the storage and manage uh NSX for networking. So this is still a customer configurable uh environment. And as I mentioned, it allows you to run VMware workloads as is on the Azure environment
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without changing, without replatforming anything on your application. This service, as I mentioned, is sold and operated and also supported by Microsoft. So when you purchase AVS, you purchase those ques we can describe to you today, you get with them the hardware, the software for for VMware, Stack, and also the support from Microsoft. You only deal with Microsoft in the situation.
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So, and the premise of ADS is to allow you to migrate VMs at scale with a very short time, it's the most rapid migration with the least risk possible because you're moving things as is using your same skill set, you're not reskilling or anything, you're using the same platform and your same operations and also the same tools as well. And AVS, if you also leverage the, what we offer in Azure as reserved instances,
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provide you a stabilised, you know, for your cost and your spending through like 5 years or even more if you commit with your spendings with Azure VMware solution. So the question is, why migrate with Azure VMware solution? So why you bother, right? As I mentioned before, uh, project, you know, migrating into the cloud projects usually have
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delays because of the fact that you're actually really performing and moving things, you know, little by little. We, we had to re-architect, you had to rebuild your environment, and that takes a long time. But with AVS because you're moving things as is, it provides you the most rapid and migration.
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You can even migrate thousands of VMs a matter of days or even weeks or a few months. And if you look again on the other alternatives we have in the other clouds or even on premises. Again, the point is re-platforming. Whenever you think about re-platform, let's say you move to solution X or Y, that's gonna live with you maybe for 5 years, and then after 5 years you can think, oh, I had to re-platform again to maybe another cloud
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service. So why maybe postpone for the time being the real platform conversation, move things to Azure as is with Azure VMware solution, and from there you can focus on modernising and how you can actually start maybe moving your your applications from VMs to maybe cloud pass services, platform as a service services. And that's again the beauty of AVS, the symmetry between on-premises and and on prem
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and Azure VMware solution allows you to move applications and VMs as is. No refactoring to your application, no architecting, nothing has changing on your application side, which allows you again to maintain your skill set and how you're operating and managing this environment in the cloud. Let me ask you one more question, I promise, maybe this is the last question.
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Have you already renewed with VCF subscription from VMware? Some of you I can tell you the good news is you are already candidates to be moving to Az your VMware solution because today we also allow bring your own subscription with you. So even if you're invested in renewing your subscription, you can still bring that subscription with you into AVS, and we provide you additional discounts on that as well.
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So that is not a limitation or you know, a blocker to prevent you from a migration that you have to wait maybe until your next renewal with the Broadcom or something like that. That is not the case. And again, AVS is part of the Azure ecosystem, right, so we want you to move your workloads that's running on the vSphere environment and also its own dependencies as well into the Azure ecosystem.
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What does not fit on AVS will definitely fit on other Azure services. I'll give you a couple of examples like Epic workloads if you're in the healthcare industry, or think of maybe Oracle database, you know, it might be still runs on on the VMware environment, but we, you could also get better options with, for example, Oracle DB at Azure, right? That's another offering we have today.
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And there's many, many services that probably no enough time to talk about 200 services today. But those are options for you. For example, you can start modernising, moving your SQL server to SQL manage instances service in Azure, and that basically allows you to modernise without even no changes because you just move your SQL, your database tier into past services and keep your applications running on the
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VMware stack. This is again no change to your environment. Your environment stays running consistently with no down time. And the last thing I want to actually mention here is the move from CapE to optics, right? We have lots of pressing, you know, priorities these days. No one has still time to manage hardware
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patches, hardware refreshes, and software refreshes. Let someone else do that for you, and you focus on your applications, focus on your innovation, focus on your attaching AI to your applications today. And that's what you get when you run VMware vSphere as a service, and that's exactly what AVS is.
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You know, it just runs runs you the VMware environment, you just worry about your application running on top of that stack. And as I mentioned before, you get one bill from Microsoft for the hardware, the software, and the support, you don't have to transact with any other vendor at that point. Keep in mind that a lot of the customers today, if you look at the numbers,
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75% of the workloads running on VMware environments today are either Windows or SQL running on Windows. Now guess how many customers today run Windows Server 2012, which reached the end of life, or SQL 2012 or 2014? Well, technically those customers have to pay extended security updates out of pocket if they
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keep running them on premises. Now the option is to upgrade them, but you know, upgrading them is a different problem, right? Let's for the time being, think about how we can actually get that for free until we upgrade them. So again, that's by bringing those workloads into the cloud or into the Azure VMR solution
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in this case. You get the ESUs or extended security updates for free. I'll tell you from my little experience with customers and partners that. This is actually a deal breaker in many times. Once the customer realises that they are spending this amount of money on ESUs on
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premises and they get that for free when they move to Azure, it's like, let, let, I'm, I'm ready. Let's this a deal done. Let's move forward because they just they realise this is avoided cost if they just make the next step and move to the cloud. Alright, so the point here just before we move on is let's not worry about infrastructure,
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hardware refreshes, software refreshes, let's move that to Microsoft to manage and you focus on your applications running on that stack. And you were talking, or speaking of stacks, you can see here the symmetry that what I was talking about before, when you look at your data centre today, on the left side, showing the VMware stack, you have UIXIhos,
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you have Venter, you maybe have some sort of storage and compute. Very similarly you will see that on the Azure VMware solution on the right side where you actually run a VCF basically and on top, you know, that is running on top of the SXI host we're running them on bare metal hardware in Azure and then of course we have Venter to manage those and we have VSAN as a basic storage that comes with the hyper convert
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infrastructure and of course the best for VMware uh workloads is using NSX for networking, right? So again, this is certified by VMware and any updates or changes we do to the service is always verified by VMware. So how you do migrate, you just basically need to have some sort of connectivity between on-premises and your Azure environment that could be express route if you have it,
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or maybe you're looking for to have a hybrid long term environment. Maybe Express route is a good service, or just a VPN connectivity allows you to basically start your migration. And which tool you would use, we use the VMware HCX tool. It's a native tool that's part. Of the AVS environment and we give it for free,
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no additional cost, and it allows you to basically move VMs with many options to Azure VMware solution, including zero downtime, including keeping your network IP addresses and even Mac addresses using network extension. So that is possible and I don't think you would find that with other alternative migration that you want to move things to other platforms or to other cloud.
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So this is basically what we provide. And then, speaking on SKUs, I mentioned before, that's like what you purchase when you, when you buy AVS. You probably purchase one or more of those SKUs to deploy your environment on AVS. The reason I actually I'm showing here is not to go into details into those queues because
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you can find this information online. I just wanna basically let you understand the high level of how this works. Again, I mentioned before, when you purchase one of those queues, you're not only buying the hardware specifications. You're also buying the, the cost for the VMware VCF licence for those,
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and you're also buying the support as well. So this is not like apples to apples when you compare to on-prem because on-prem you still have to buy additional things beyond just the hardware, right? Now, the specification probably is obvious on the screen. You can see the number of CPU cores at each SKU and the,
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the amount of memory and the amount of storage that comes of the VSAN on each, on each uh hardware. Now just for awareness, you can see the three SKUs on the left AB 36P, AB 48, AB 52 runs on Dell hardware versus AB 64 or any other future SKUs we'll be adding soon is gonna be based on Azure Fleet hardware,
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and that gives us more capacity and more flexibility to grow the environment and adapt to the customer needs any time with more options. I'm going to go like more technical on how this is implemented, but just want to make sure you understand how this is deployed. So ABS is a private cloud.
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Technically, you start with having clusters, right? And each cluster, it consists at a minimum of 3 nodes. So you definitely cannot start this environment deploying one of these nodes. You have to at least start with deploying 3 nodes in any cluster in any private cloud. And of course from there you can scale up, right?
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You can have more nodes. Up to 16 nodes in the same cluster or you can have multiple clusters in the same private cloud. Keep in mind that AVS is a scalable service. You can always scale up and you can always scale down if you don't need that capacity at that duration of time, which eventually you probably not achieve that on premises because to,
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you know, procure hardware and get it, it takes a long time, and with ABS you can actually add additional capacity within like 30 minutes, like adding additional nodes to your environment. Now, before I hand over to Vaclav to continue there, I want to just highlight one last thing on this slide, the VSAN capacity.
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So to grow your environment from a CPU kind of cores and memory, you definitely need to add additional notes to your cluster or to additional clusters. And the same thing for storage, but that might not be the efficient cost or the from a cost perspective, or even from a performance perspective to do that. You can actually scale storage independently from compute by attaching additional storage
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options which in this case we're gonna talk intensively and and more focused on the pure cloud storage service that Vaclav is gonna introduce here. So back to you, my friend Vaclav. Thank you. So thanks for you already answered a couple of stuff I have on the next slide.
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Uh, so when we, uh, no worries, when we are involved in discussions with customers who are considering migrations to VM VMware into Azure into Azure VMware solution, uh, they are often blocked by exactly the. Coupling of storage scaling storage with compute, so the existing storage options doesn't allow customers to independently scale storage from
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their compute. So exactly in the moment they need more capacity. They need to scale out and add. more notes into their ADS, but in case they don't utilise the power coming to the memory and compute power, they are overprovisioning their ADS clusters and they are wasting resources because they don't have workload who utilise the compute and memory.
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They just pay because of the storage. So, uh, and also customers, uh, often are blocked that they are missing, uh, the enterprise features they know from the on-premises storage solutions, for example, about the data protections like safe mode or uh for reability or durability. So, uh, to that's the reason why we think the storage is key to unblock such a
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migrations, uh, stolen migration. So that's the reason uh why we introduced uh to help unblock these challenges, we introduced a new service which is called uh Asian Native 色控传媒 Cloud Service, and that's, uh, it's a result of a close partnership between 色控传媒 and Microsoft, and we introduced this service based on our offering, uh,
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marketplace offering you might know, uh, as uh called Pure Cloudbookstore. And we are introducing it as an Azure native managed service, and I like to call it like a block storage as a service, and so you don't need to think about running or managing your storage infrastructure because it's completely managed by Pure. And when we were designing the er the service, uh, we wanted to bring a really uh
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Azure full native, uh, experience. So, uh, for example, the provisioning or configuration of the service is fully uh done uh through Azure portal. And for day to day operations like managing snapshots volumes, the service automatically comes with vSphere plugin, which is automatically installed during connection, and that enables you to manage the
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volumes and snapshots right within the vSphere client without any need to switch to another management console. And before uh we will dive into uh details, I would like to invite one of our early tester, Joe Avelino from uh Duaco. Good afternoon, everybody. Uh, so welcome. Thank you. Uh, uh, so you had a chance to, uh,
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test early, make it early test of the service. So please can you describe a little bit more? I need to be sorry for that. I don't hear the mic. Uh, so, uh, can you please describe a little bit your role within DuPako and your VMware environment. Sure, so, uh, my name is Joevellino from Duakco
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Community Credit Union. Um, we have been, I, I, I have been testing the Pure storage cloud for Vaclav and the team for the last two months, um, and previous to that, just, uh, for a little bit of background, we also tested last year the cloud block store within AVS as well. Um, I am the, uh, IT infrastructure manager for Dupaco.
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Um, so my team is responsible for keeping up, you know, all the back end or 28 branches connected, our sands up and all that stuff. Um, we have also been an AVS customer for over 2 years. Uh, we originally started just for some background on that, we started at it became our DR location.
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We were in a colo in Chicago. We are located about 3 hours west of Chicago, and we decided to vacate that um Colo and go into AVS because our ultimate goal is to move our entire data centre into the AVS or Azure platform. Um, so you know, the, uh, both gentlemen have explained exactly what we've lived the last two years, which is we moved into AVS and our, our issue is storage,
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um, as Hassam had has mentioned that you need at least 3 hosts for the cluster. Well, we have 2 different clusters and one has 6 hosts, one has 3, the main reason we have 6 and the 1. is for the VSAN storage, uh, the deduplication and compression uh is not even anywhere near what Pier has um if any of you are in AVS today, I'm pretty sure you'll know exactly what I mean
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when I say that, um, and really the storage service has been phenomenal because how many of you like to manage your, your peer controllers and call support and have them do updates, um. Uh, not that it's not that it's a bad thing, but the Pure storage cloud just gives you if I want to go to Pier and say I want 200 terabytes of storage, I go into the Azure marketplace, I go pick up how many IOPs I want,
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I go select um the amount of space that I need along with that IOP commitment. And I get the storage provided to me as a data store within my my AVS solution. There's, there's no peering of networks. There's no setting of any of that up. It's, it's literally just sitting there in the marketplace. It shows up with a uh a run command from the AVS command council and boom,
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I have a new data store and it's been extremely slick service to test so far. Perfect, thank you so much. And I also wanted to ask how was your overall experience with the onboarding into 色控传媒 so, uh, the onboarding piece and, and believe it or not, so I had two options. I could work with the team and they would step
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me through it and I said I don't wanna do that. Give me the book. Let me see if I can do it. It took me less than 2.5 hours to go through the documentation they gave me, which is. Uh, at the time was a little bit of Microsoft documentation from Learn.
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Microsoft.com and um some Google docs that the team had provided for the early testers and I real world 2.5 hours from the moment I got off the phone to the moment I had 120 terabytes in my hands to test, um, so it is very, a very slick process. I would imagine today. Because this was about 3 months ago that we started this,
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I would imagine today it's probably less than that. Uh, so it is definitely not something that takes, you know, a day or a week, a month to onboard. It is, it is very slick, very quick process. Perfect. Thank you so much. Thanks for coming and thank you also for your, uh, all the feedback you provided to us.
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Thank you so much. Thank you, Joe. So let's take on this typical scenario when a customer requires more storage than compute, like for example, imagine a situation that when you need 206 terabytes and 72 CPU cores. So with the AVS native storage, you would need to provision and pay for cost for
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15 AVS nodes. Uh, with the pure storage cloud services, uh, you can, the duplicate, uh, sorry, you can decouple, uh, your, uh, and right size your compute power only for the compute power you need. And use the pure storage cloud as external storage.
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So for this example, you need only 5 ADS nodes, and that leads to reduction about 500k per year for overprovisioned compute cost of ADS. Also, when I'm talking about this money stuff, so I wanted a little bit to describe the pricing model of the pure storage service, so it's pretty simple and straightforward.
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The storage service is flexible and enables you to pay only for the storage you really utilise. So only two metrics are charged. First, The metric is consume capacity. That's real capacity you consume by your stored data on the storage pool resource. The minimum capacity per single storage pool is 30 terabytes,
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and the second metric is just the allocated performance. This allocated performance. Uh, is shared across the storage pool resource and uh you can, uh, anytime resize, you can anytime change your performance and it's ranging from 800 megabytes up to 2048 with corresponding IOS.
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And there are no other charges within the surveys for underlying resources, and I think everything is already included in these two metrics. Uh, no, no regrets, please. Uh, we can discuss it together later, but there are no egress because I'm going to show it more in detail later, but you are injecting directly into your subnet
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into a virtual network where the AVS is connected to. So if you don't have any other Vnet peering or anything, there are no other egress charges for communication between AVS. Thanks for the question. It's pretty good. OK, and the service is built through the Azure Marketplace, so customer will uh will see the service as another role on their uh
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Microsoft uh bill for Azure services. The service comes into two subscription models. First is Pay As You Go, where there are no commitment, no commitment. Customer can cancel anytime, and it's built on the actual usage hourly. That this model is ideal for dynamic workloads with some unpredictable storage needs.
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Other model is a fixed plan, which comes with a 1 year or 3 year commitment. And that works that you have some reserved and included capacity and performance within the plan, but in any time you need some additional capacity or additional performance, you can get a boost anytime. This fixed plan subscription model is ideal for steady workloads,
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ensuring you will have a cost efficiency and predictable pricing. OK, so how to get started with the service. Sounds good. So to deploy AVS, I mean this first place you need to deploy AVS before you start integrating with the pure storage integration there. And to do that, you start to basically with the planning, right?
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I mean that one of the first question you probably need to ask is like how many notes I need to purchase from Microsoft to deploy my VMware environment. And it's a long question to answer how to do that, but definitely you can work with Pure, with Microsoft, with partners to help you with that. And then of course, you need to decide the region where you actually want to deploy AVS.
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You also need to carve slash 22 network, you know, IP cider block, so you can, we can use that for your management of the AVS components. And then deploying AVS, trust me, is easier than deploying, I don't know, like a VM on Azure or maybe a storage account on Azure. It's just actually a couple of clicks. You just tell it to where,
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where, where it is, where you want to deploy it, and just, you know, have it running for for you. It just takes around 4 hours to deploy the whole, uh, private cloud for you. And then once you have AVS deployed in certain region in certain availability zone, you need to connect your AVS to an Azure virtual network,
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because AVS by default, it's kind of an island that's not connected to anywhere. And internally within Azure we use an internal Azure Express track connectivity to connect EVS to the Azure virtual network. It's free. Don't worry about any cost because it's within Azure, so we buy that. Don't worry about the cost. That's a question.
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It's free of charge. It's already included in the service. Yes. And then once that is there, once you have connectivity to your virtual network, then you go deploy the pure storage cloud service in Azure. Again, as Vaclav described, it's kind of a native service today as the experience just as any other Azure service,
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right? It's very simple to deploy it. And the next thing after you deploy the whole kind of container where you put your storage uh for Pure, you deploy the storage pool. This is basically where the actual uh data will be stored, right, in the storage, uh, pool.
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And once you have this storage pool deployed, we're gonna show you that in a demo in just one minute. You will go to the VMware environment within ADS within like the vSphere client. You use the plugin for the pure storage, and you would start creating your data stores that will be part or, you know, contained in that storage pool that you created previously.
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So let's kind of jump into the uh demovalov so we can show them how to do that. Thank you. So, uh, first, the demo starts when you need to create a parent resource to enable the service itself in a selected region in selected Azure subscription. So you just need to go through the standard Azure bizar. You will fill in some information,
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blank information about your company, and that's all. From this moment, once you've selected the region, you are good to go. This takes a few seconds and you can proceed now. The storage pool creation, that's the interesting part. So once you select the Azure Native pure storage cloud service you created before,
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you specify the name for your storage pool, you select the availability zone. Oh sorry, my bad one. Sorry, always with the demo. Then when God's not with us today. Uh, I think, yeah, I will move it here. Yeah, yeah.
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So, uh, this is the key thing, uh, we recommend to select the same availability zone as you have the ADS deployed into because the storage pool, same as the notes, uh, in, uh, AVS are zonal service. That's the uh and last step to create a storage pool. You need to select also the desired performance with a slider and sorry for this is the last
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step, you need to select the delegated subnet within the virtual network with connection through Express out circuit with the ADS cluster. This, uh, the deployment of the storage pool takes usually up to one hour, and from that moment you can proceed uh with connection to HR VMware solution. And how to connect it with HR VMware solution is pretty straightforward.
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You just go to the storage pool resource, you will click on the Connect AVS, uh, and you will select your resource and click on the connect button. This takes around 10 minutes, and from this moment you will see the associated AVS resource. You will see it listed your ADS cluster, and from that moment you can see the service within your vSphere.
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Perfect. Yeah, thank you Fuck club. So at this point you have deployed the pure storage cloud service and you have deployed the storage pool and you have it running and connected to AVS that is deployed also in Azure. Now what's next actually is to This is the wrong side. Yep, this is the right one.
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Thank you. What's next is to go, as you can see here, by the way, this is very much familiar to all of you, right? I'm sure you have seen this before, right? Um, you will leverage the pure storage plug-in into vCenter or vSphere client to technically create your first data store,
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and you can create multiple data stores if you, if you wish. Here, you're actually selecting the storage pool that Vaclav just showed you, and then you give a name for data store and capacity for it. Storage, uh, policy specify it there and just to create the data store. At this point, your data store is being provisioned and can be used for,
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for VMs, can be used even when you like SCX migration, you can land the VMs that you are marketing from on-premises to this environment. And this is what you see here as this is your new data store from Pure. If you want to see how things look like from the Azure portal and there are the storage container, as you can see here, you will see here the new data store that we just created in
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the previous step. And this is how it looks like in Azure. Now let me go back briefly here and create a VM just to show you, I mean, I'm sure that you know this more than I do, but let's say you wanna create a VM in, you know, vSphere client, you just create a new VM, very typical, you know, wizard that you probably have done before, um,
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as the point here is to show you that AVS is exactly VMware that you're using it on premises, as you can see it's, it's exactly the same thing. Nothing is different. Um, you choose the, the cluster, and now here we can choose the storage for the data store we just created. This is the pure storage cloud service, you know, again,
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compatibility, when the server, all that stuff. I know that you know, you know it more than I do. And there you can actually specify the size for your hard drive and you can create more than one hard drive. Remember the number 123, right? 123 gigabytes.
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I'll tell you why I need you to remember that. Because when we come here to the storage pool, you will see that actually here represented as well. So you can see this is the, the hard drive we just created, and you can see here the VM that we just also created that attached to that hard drive, Demo VM.
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This is how exactly you can kind of monitor and see all your resources from the VMware side of the of the house and the Azure side of the house as well. And also, as I was describing the performance, so in case you need some additional performance boost, it's pretty easy. You just go to the Azure portal and you will click on the change and you will move the slider.
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I will play it again. One second. I will just play it again. So you can just edit the performance of the storage pool resource, swipe the slider, and immediately you will get additional performance as you need. OK, so that was the demo, uh, sorry, it was recorded because uh to create ABS and create
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everything, it would take some time, so we wanted to save your time here. So, uh, also the service because it's a Azure native service, so it comes with a full infrastructure ethical support. So you can deploy any of these resources. You can do it through the Azure portal, or if you prefer infrastructure as a code, it's possible you can do it.
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This is through Azure Bicep or Terraform. For example, here you can see how the deployment of the storage pool resource looks like within the Azure Bicep. And we announced this pure storage cloud services at VMware Explore in November and 2 months ago from now we entered with the
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service public preview phase and we are actively looking for to promote it into GA. And as part of this effort, we are also looking for customer feedbacks. So if you are interested in hands-on testing of the surveys, please feel free to reach out to me uh after the session.
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Really welcome. OK, so short overview, the services unblocks the stalled VMware migrations to Azure, delivers enterprise grade uh block storage as a services as a native Azure service, and we are looking for uh testers for our public preview.
