In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are increasingly moving their workloads to the cloud for scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. Microsoft Azure, with its robust suite of cloud services, has become a go-to platform for enterprises looking to modernize their IT infrastructure. In particular, the Azure VMware Solution (AVS) stands out for organizations looking to extend or migrate their on-premises VMware environments to the cloud.
To further enhance the capabilities of AVS, the NetApp product folks are integrating AVS with NetApp’s Cloud Volumes ONTAP which will provide significant benefits in terms of data migration, consistent operations, and cloud flexibility.
Are you an ONTAP customer with existing virtual on-premises block environments who intends to migrate to Microsoft Azure? We are currently seeking these NetApp customers to participate as early adopters of this winning integration!
Understanding Microsoft Azure VMware Solution + NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Azure VMware Solution is a Microsoft service that enables you to run VMware workloads natively on Microsoft Azure. It provides a seamless way to extend or migrate your existing on-premises VMware environment to Azure without the need to re-architect your applications or retool your operations.
Cloud Volumes ONTAP is self-managed, unified storage software that harnesses the power of NetApp’s flagship ONTAP management software in the cloud. Cloud Volumes ONTAP enables you to easily build storage for mission-critical applications, databases, containers, and user files in Microsoft Azure. And, as a premier block storage solution in Microsoft Azure, Cloud Volumes ONTAP iSCSI support will provide an easy path for NetApp ONTAP customers migrating their VMware block storage to the cloud.
Integrating Microsoft Azure VMware Solution with Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Combining the Microsoft AVS with Cloud Volumes ONTAP can provide a powerful and flexible cloud storage solution that is especially well-suite for scaling block-based VMware environments to Microsoft Azure, while offering the following additional benefits:
- Seamless migration. Migrate your VMware block-based workloads to Cloud Volumes ONTAP in Microsoft Azure without the heavy uplift or workarounds.
- Consistent operations. Manage Microsoft Azure-based VMware with Cloud Volumes ONTAP using familiar processes and tools.
- Hybrid cloud flexibility. Extend your NetApp on-premises block storage to Microsoft Azure for seamless hybrid cloud
Calling on NetApp ONTAP users: The NetApp product team is seeking ONTAP customers with existing VMware on-premises block environments who intend to migrate to Microsoft Azure. Customers with this qualification can participate in the early testing of our AVS and Cloud Volumes ONTAP integration and will receive “white glove” onboarding of this tested solution with the ability to directly influence how the feature will be deployed once publicly available.
Our only ask is for you to attend a bi-weekly 30-minute product and architecture call with our product and engineering teams where you can have a direct impact on how this joint solution will work while influencing our roadmap.
Interested? Contact our product team lead, Michal Gliksman, or your sales representative to get started.
Act fast before available participant seats run out!