As digital transformation continues to be a business priority, most enterprises are looking at adopting a flexible hybrid infrastructure by shifting workloads from on-premise to cloud. Yet, numerous challenges such as lack of expertise and standardized tools and unclear economic benefits often hinder hybrid cloud adoption.

The Azure VMware Solution provides a distinctive mechanism for hybrid cloud adoption and seamless migration of VMware-virtualized workloads to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. AVS is a full VMware SDDC stack which consists of ESXi for Compute, NSX-T for Networking, vSAN for storage and HCX for workloads mobility. This runs on top of Azure bare metal dedicated infrastructure, thereby providing benefits of scale and regional diversity along with the native capabilities of Azure