Enterprise Scale for Azure VMware Solution – Identity and Access
I had the pleasure of talking with Xavier Elizondo where he went over identity and access in Azure VMware Solution. Watch below! Important things to note for Azure VMware Solution AVS has the control plane in Azure that is managed ... continue reading
Azure VMware Solution (AVS) for VMware Admins – Assessment and Migration
Assessing your environment There are many tools you may or not be familiar with, depending on your background to, assess which workloads are eligible to migrate to Azure VMware Solution. Microsoft offers Azure Migrate where you can download an OVA ... continue reading
Azure VMware Solution (AVS) for VMware Admins Primer
It’s funny to think there was such a pushback on virtualization when it first came out versus being the norm for most of us now. As a VMware admin myself, I remember all the discussions with application teams trying to ... continue reading
Video 4 of the Azure VMware Solution Zero to Hero Series!
Continuing with our Azure VMware Solution (AVS) zero to hero video series, this week the next video releases! In this video, Shabaz Darr (@ShabazDarr) and I cover the deployment steps for Azure VMware Solution, taking you from zero closer to ... continue reading
Move SQL Server licenses without Software Assurance to Azure
Migrating your on-premises infrastructure and architecture to the cloud may seem like a daunting task, especially if you don't have Software Assurance for your on-premises licenses. While this may seem difficult and challenging, there is a pain-free way to bring ... continue reading

Plan your migration to Azure VMware solution using Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate now supports assessments for Azure VMware Solution (AVS), providing even more options for you to plan your migration to Azure. AVS enables you to run VMware natively on Azure. AVS provides a dedicated Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) ... continue reading
Planning Failover Cluster Node Sizing
In this blog I will discuss considerations on planning the number of nodes in a Windows Server Failover Cluster. Starting with Windows Server 2012, Failover Clustering can support to up 64-nodes in a single cluster making it industry leading in ... continue reading

Moving your VMware resources to Azure is easier than ever
Back in April we announced the Azure VMware Solution to deliver a comprehensive VMware environment allowing you to run native VMware-based workloads on Azure. It’s a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) that includes vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX-T, and ... continue reading

Azure Stack IaaS – part nine
This blog was co-authored by Aparna Vishwanathan, Senior Program Manager, Azure Stack and Tiberiu Radu, Senior Program Manager, Azure Stack. Build on the success of others Before we built Azure Stack, our program manager team called a lot of customers ... continue reading
So what exactly is the CLIUSR account
From time to time, people stumble across the local user account called CLIUSR and wonder what it is, while you really don’t need to worry about it; we will cover it for the curious in this blog. The CLIUSR account ... continue reading