Azure VMware Solution Syslog Forwarder

Large enterprise and strategic customers have existing and established monitoring solutions that are a constraint for adopting new solutions such as the Azure VMware Solution. Customers do not want to adopt a new real-time monitoring framework for the Azure VMware Solution. This Syslog Forwarder function allows a customer to achieve operational excellence with the Azure VMware Solution and meet their operational management goals.

The Azure VMware Solution does not currently support Syslog Forwarding to a customer Syslog server. This Syslog Forwarder function provides this capability by streaming Azure VMware Solution Diagnostic logs as a JSON.string to Azure Event Hub which is then processed by an Azure Function App to convert the JSON.string into Syslog format and send to an external Syslog server.

Figure 1 – Azure VMware Solution Syslog Forwarder Function

Background

The Azure VMware Solution product group has created this GitHub repository to share prescriptive architectural approaches and tools for customers and partners using the Azure VMware Solution service. This is intended to enhance the value of the Azure VMware Solution service to our customers and partners.

To navigate the Azure VMware Solution GitHub repository, select the solution you are interested in from the Table of Contents in the README.md file to open the project folder. Each project has a descriptive README.md file that describes how to use it.

Azure VMware Solution is a VMware validated first party Azure service from Microsoft that provides private clouds containing VMware vSphere clusters built from dedicated bare-metal Azure infrastructure. It enables customers to leverage their existing investments in VMware skills and tools, allowing them to focus on developing and running their VMware-based workloads on Azure.

If you are interested in the Azure VMware Solution, please use these resources to learn more about the service:

• Homepage: Azure VMware Solution | Microsoft Azure
• Learn: Run VMware resources on Azure VMware Solution Training
• Documentation: Azure VMware Solution
• Azure CLI: Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) Overview
• PowerShell module: Az.VMware Module
• Terraform provider: azurerm_vmware_private_cloud Terraform Registry
• GitHub repository: Azure/azure-vmware-solution
• Cloud Adoption Framework: Introduction to the Azure VMware Solution adoption scenario
• Network connectivity scenarios: Enterprise-scale network topology and connectivity for Azure VMware Solution
• Enterprise Scale Landing Zone: Enterprise-scale for Microsoft Azure VMware Solution
• Enterprise Scale GitHub repository: Azure/Enterprise-Scale-for-AVS
• Microsoft Ignite 2022: Azure VMware Solution Update – New Features and Capabilities (microsoft.com)
• VMware homepage: VMware to Azure Migration Solutions
• VMware Hands-on Labs: Azure VMware Solution Hands-on Labs
• VMware Cloud Tech Zone: Azure VMware Solution
• VMware Explore 2022: VMware Explore Video Library
• Learning Resources: Azure VMware Solution (AVS) (microsoft.github.io)

Author Bio

René van den Bedem is a Principal Technical Program Manager in the Azure VMware Solution product group at Microsoft. His background is in enterprise architecture with extensive experience across all facets of the enterprise, public cloud & service provider spaces, including digital transformation and the business, enterprise, and technology architecture stacks. In addition to being the first quadruple VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX), he is also a Dell Technologies Certified Master Enterprise Architect, a Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) and an NPX Panelist.