Enterprise Storage for Azure VMware Solution - Simplify Scale and Save

Learn how Pure Storage Cloud enhances Azure VMware Solution by simplifying operations, boosting agility, and reducing costs in this 20-minute conference session from Microsoft Ignite 2025. Explore the technical foundations of resilient enterprise storage and discover strategies for cost reduction across cloud migration, disaster recovery, and hybrid deployments. Understand the requirements for successful VMware migration through disaggregation of storage and compute, and examine VM migration processes using HCX and vMotion without requiring refactoring. Gain insights into Azure VMware Solution as a certified Azure service with VMware/Broadcom compliance, storage expansion capabilities, and external storage integrations. Master scalable storage options and independent host expansion techniques, learn about pay-per-use storage capacity models, and follow practical demonstrations of creating and delegating subnets to Pure Storage Azure Native Service. Discover deployment procedures for Pure Storage Native Service and billing configuration essentials for enterprise-grade storage solutions in Azure VMware environments.

Syllabus

0:00 - Introduction and Session Overview – Enterprise Storage for Azure VMware Solution
00:02:36 - Requirements for Successful VMware Migration – Disaggregation of storage and compute
00:05:46 - VM Migration Using HCX and vMotion with No Refactoring Required
00:06:11 - AVS as a Certified Azure Service with VMware/Broadcom Compliance
00:07:54 - Storage Expansion and Introduction of External Storage Integrations
00:12:24 - Scalable Storage Options and Independent Host Expansion in AVS
00:15:35 - Explanation of paying only for used storage capacity on AVS virtual machine
00:16:16 - Creating and delegating a subnet to the Pure Storage Azure Native Service
00:17:01 - Deploying the Pure Storage Native Service and configuring billing details