Migrate and modernize VMware in Azure
Free your teams from infrastructure management and focus instead on scaling faster, increasing agility, and building an innovation-ready cloud foundation.
OVERVIEW
Find the right destination for each VMware workload
- Offload the effort to run physical datacenters—including hardware, power, cooling, and facilities—so your teams can focus on higher value work and drive business innovation.
- Avoid overprovisioning and hardware refresh cycles. Pay only for the capacity you need, when you need it. Optimize spend with FinOps best practices.
- Reduce risk and operational complexity from day one with built-in resilience, including high availability, backup, threat protection, and monitoring.
- Accelerate innovation with Azure AI apps and agents powered by Microsoft’s latest advancements.
- Reduce infrastructure complexity and technical debt by migrating VMware workloads to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
- Choose from flexible Windows or Linux VMs tailored to every business need. Scale up and down easily to meet any demand.
- Modernize VMware workloads by moving data to Azure’s enterprise-grade, high-performing storage options.
- Connect and protect workloads with Azure networking services that deliver high availability, secure hybrid connectivity, and global scale.
- Stop managing operating systems and modernize applications using cloud-native platform as a service (PaaS) services.
- Modernize VMware-hosted web apps and APIs by moving them to a fully managed platform with built-in scaling, security, and high availability.
- Run containerized applications using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Improve data access and app performance using fully managed Azure databases like Azure SQL Database and Oracle Database@Azure.
- Run VMware workloads natively on Azure's fully managed service, Azure VMware Solution (AVS), using familiar VMware tools.
- Move to the cloud fast using VMware HCX and your portable VMware Cloud Foundation license.
- Use your existing VMware expertise while building new cloud skills on Azure.
- Help cover the cost of migration with a comprehensive set of licensing benefits and programs.
- Add up savings when you bring Windows and SQL Server licenses to Azure.
PRODUCTS
Explore Azure products and services for VMware workloads
Azure Virtual Machines
Scale and reduce costs in seconds with secure, modern Windows and Linux virtual machines on Azure.
Containers on Azure
Develop and manage your containerized applications faster with integrated tools.
Azure VMware Solution
Migrate VMware workloads with minimal changes, keeping continuity and familiarity for your team.
Azure App Service
Quickly build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs with a fully managed PaaS.
Azure security
Safeguard your AI, VMs, apps, data, devices, and identities at every layer.
Azure databases
Build cloud-native applications or modernize existing applications with fully managed, flexible databases.
Azure cloud storage and data migration
Migrate and manage your data in Azure with cloud storage and data migration solutions designed for modern workloads.
Azure Virtual Desktop
Deliver secure Windows desktops and apps anywhere with cloud-managed virtual desktops that scale and optimize costs.
Azure DevOps
Plan, build, test, and ship software faster with integrated DevOps tools for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), collaboration, and security.
OFFERS
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Fuel your transformation with experts, investments, and resources.
CUSTOMER STORIES
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RESOURCES
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Next steps
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