What's new in Azure VMware Solution - October 2022

I’m thrilled to be writing to you today from Microsoft Ignite in Seattle, where my team and I will be presenting and meeting with customers and partners both in person and online!

Today I am excited to share some of the recent updates we’ve made to Azure VMware Solution.

Customer Managed Keys, now in preview, gives customers maximum control over their encrypted vSAN data on Azure VMware Solution. With this feature, customers use Azure Key Vault to generate customer managed keys, and to centralize and streamline the key management process, including:

• Revoking access anytime and protecting customer’s data from within their private cloud.
• Rotating encryption key in Azure Key Vault per the customer’s compliance policies.
• Full integration with Azure Monitor and Azure Log Analytics for complete audit logs and alerts. Learn more

Stretched Clusters for Azure VMware Solution, now in preview, provide 99.99% uptime for mission critical applications that require the highest availability. In times of Availability Zone (AZ) failure, customers’ virtual machines (VMs) and applications automatically failover to an unaffected AZ with no application impact. Stretched cluster benefits:

• Improve application availability.
• Provide a zero recovery point objective (RPO) capability for enterprise applications without needing to redesign them, or deploy expensive disaster recovery (DR) solutions.
• A private cloud with stretched clusters is designed to provide 99.99% availability due to its resilience to AZ failures.
• Enable customers to focus on core application requirements and features, instead of infrastructure availability. Learn more. 

To hear more about Azure VMware Solution at Ignite watch this VMware session Azure VMware Solution Update – New Features and Capabilities

Did you know that NetApp files is now available for Azure VMware Solution? Watch this Ignite session to learn more: Reduce your Azure VMware Solution TCO while increasing agility with Azure NetApp Files Datastores

To hear about the Azure platform at Ignite you can also attend:

• Corenote Session - TS01  Build agility, optimize your business, and create data-driven experiences with Microsoft Azure
• Microsoft Breakout Session - BRK12   Increase your business agility and resilience with the latest Azure infrastructure solutions

After Ignite if you want to learn more about Azure VMware Solution:

• Check out this VMUG Microsoft Roadshow series coming to Atlanta, Chicago and New York City
• Connect with us at VMware Explore Barcelona in November
• Go to the Azure VMware Solution Learning Path