Bringing Together the Best of VMware and Microsoft Azure
Gain Speed and Scale
Fast provisioning and elastic capacity on highly reliable managed Azure infrastructure.
Accelerate Cloud Migration
Migrate quickly to Azure while leveraging your existing VMware investments, skills, and tools. Maintain operational consistency with familiar technology including vSphere, HCX, NSX, and vSAN.
Run Best on Azure
Cut costs with exclusive Azure licensing and extended support benefits for Microsoft workloads. Save even more with discounts on Reserved Instances.
Modernize Applications
Enhance and extend VMware workloads at your pace with high-speed connections to native Azure services. Manage, monitor, automate, and protect using Azure tools.
VMware-Microsoft Innovation
Key Components of Azure VMware Solution
VMware vSphere
Run existing applications alongside modern containerized applications on the server virtualization platform geared for the modern hybrid cloud.
VMware HCX
Seamlessly extend your on-premises environments into the cloud with the tool built for workload migration and network extension.
VMware NSX
Connect and protect applications across the data center, multi-cloud, bare metal, and containers, all from a single pane of glass.
VMware vSAN
Reduce cost and complexity, while improving business agility, with enterprise-class storage virtualization software.
VMware Cross-Cloud Services
Azure VMware Solution is a Cloud Infrastructure service of the Cross-Cloud services portfolio that enables an enterprise-grade hybrid cloud with Azure.
Migrate Rapidly to the Cloud
Accelerate cloud migrations of vSphere workloads with familiar, consistent infrastructure that eliminates re-architecting of applications and reduces the complexity, cost, and risk of cloud migrations.
Data Center Expansion
Take advantage of rapid provisioning and flexible payment plans to quickly scale out data center capacity on demand for seasonal, temporary, or regional needs.
Enhance Existing Apps or Build New Apps
Migrate then modernize at your pace using native Azure services. Build and run cloud-native and containerized apps with Tanzu on Azure VMware Solution.
Failover to Azure in Case of Disaster
VMware Site Recovery Manager automates and orchestrates failover to Azure VMware Solution. Pair Azure VMware Solution Software-Defined Data Centers in different Azure regions for high resiliency.
Deliver Desktop Infrastructure from the Cloud
VMware Horizon® on Azure VMware Solution delivers a seamlessly integrated hybrid cloud for virtual desktops and applications.
Cloud Migration
Migrate Rapidly to the Cloud
Accelerate cloud migrations of vSphere workloads with familiar, consistent infrastructure that eliminates re-architecting of applications and reduces the complexity, cost, and risk of cloud migrations.
DC Expansion
Data Center Expansion
Take advantage of rapid provisioning and flexible payment plans to quickly scale out data center capacity on demand for seasonal, temporary, or regional needs.
Application Modernization
Enhance Existing Apps or Build New Apps
Migrate then modernize at your pace using native Azure services. Build and run cloud-native and containerized apps with Tanzu on Azure VMware Solution.
Disaster Recovery
Failover to Azure in Case of Disaster
VMware Site Recovery Manager automates and orchestrates failover to Azure VMware Solution. Pair Azure VMware Solution Software-Defined Data Centers in different Azure regions for high resiliency.
Cloud Virtual Desktops
Deliver Desktop Infrastructure from the Cloud
VMware Horizon® on Azure VMware Solution delivers a seamlessly integrated hybrid cloud for virtual desktops and applications.
VMware Services for Azure VMware Solution
Extend Azure VMware Solution with VMware attached services
Case Studies
University of Miami
“Eliminating needs for networking equipment, storage hardware and professional services amounts to six figures of savings for the university.”
—Mari Lovo, Director of Cloud Infrastructure Services
Carhartt
“We considered several factors and concluded that Azure VMware Solution offered us the most benefits, including cost savings and ease of management."
—Haidar Abouzenni, Systems Engineer
Nippon Wealth Life
“We focused our attention on Azure VMware Solution because it would enable us to use VMware products, which were already in use in our on-premises environment.”
—Yasumasa Takada, Manager, System Management Department
Motor Oil
“Being able to manage our existing environments with the same VMware tools gives us the space and energy to focus on modernizing other applications with Azure native services. ”
—Vasilis Anastasiou, Group IT Director, Operations and Infrastructure
Softchoice
“Azure VMware Solution provides the sweet spot between full refactoring of applications and moving loads from the physical data center to Azure. It was the right time and the right resolution for us at that point in our cloud journey.”
— Lester Moniz, Director, IT Operations
LIXIL
“This project is an extremely important program to transfer the existing on-premise environments to clouds with mobility based on the multi-cloud strategy.”
—Osamu Iwasaki, SVP System Development and Operation
Hughes Managed Services
“The ability to take something new from VMware — Azure VMware Solution — work on it together, get it spun up and tested in just a couple of days, and get it deployed into our customer environment in less than a week, speaks to the strength of our partnership and the strength of the technology.”
—Jeff Bradbury, Senior Marketing Director, Hughes Managed Services
