Azure VMware Solutions
Customers who deploy Azure VMware Solution (AVS) can now take advantage of Everpure Cloud Dedicated. Everpure Cloud Dedicated allows customers to expand their AVS VM's storage capacity independently from the AVS nodes, providing an economical storage option. There are three main point why would customers use the Azure VMware Solution powered with Everpure Cloud Dedicated:
Fast-tracking the Path to ROI: For all customers, the ability to use Everpure Cloud Dedicated block storage allows for right-sizing your storage to better match storage purchase to consumption. This can significantly reduce the overall cost of AVS at scale, speeding up the time to ROI and allowing for more workloads to be migrated to the cloud or redirecting spend to service (e.g., SQL as a service).
Simpler Migration with Proven Tools: Use familiar tools to migrate. Use VMware’s suite of migration tools to move your workloads to AVS. On-premises FlashArray customers have the additional benefit of being able to use all of the data services of Purity to replicate data easily to AVS. Data on Everpure Cloud Dedicated volumes are in the Purity Operating Environment and have all of the and fully interoperate.
Securing Your Destination for You: Up-front investments aren’t just costs. There’s also the investment in processes and security. All the storage management tools and data protection features of Purity are available and free. One important feature is Auto-on SafeMode™, which delivers ransomware protections by default when new volumes are created, automatically. This frees up your time to evaluate app modernization for your legacy workloads with Azure data services as you integrate the cloud as part of your larger infrastructure strategy.
Data Mobility using vVols
Undoubtedly, VMware is a dominant presence in the IT industry. As architectures shift and transform to encompass a hybrid cloud model, data mobility for guest VMs is crucial. However, Azure does not natively support VMFS file systems, so a VMFS volume that is replicated to Azure is not readable by the Azure provided VMs. Storage vMotion provides a simple solution for customers, allowing them to convert their VMFS datastore-based VMs into distinct VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols)-based VMs. Each vVol is a standalone volume that is formatted with the respective file system of the guest OS. Therefore, a vVol from a Windows guest VM is directly readable from an Azure VM since it is simply reading an NTFS file system.