Azure VMware Solution reservations
What is Azure VMware Solution?
Azure VMware Solution is a first-party Azure service that allows you to migrate and run vSphere workloads natively on Microsoft Azure.
It provides a unified VMware Software-Defined Data Center in the Azure cloud.
The solution is fully supported by Microsoft and VMware.
A popular use case is to use the service as a rapidly scalable disaster recovery site to protect critical on-premises workloads.
Let’s have a look at the available discounts!
The following Instance sizes (Product name) are available for Azure VMware Solution:
- AV36:
- 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6140 (Skylake) – 18 cores at 2.3 GHz, total of 36 physical cores and 72 HT cores
- RAM: 576 GB
- Storage: 3.2 TB NVMe cache, 15.4 TB data (All-Flash)
- Network: 4x25Gbe NIC (two for management/control, two for customer traffic)
- AV36P:
- 2 x Xeon Gold 6240 (Cascade Lake) – 18 cores at 2.6 GHz, 3.9 GHz Turbo, total of 36 physical cores and 72 HT cores
- RAM: 768 GB
- Storage: 1.5 TB NVMe cache 19.2 TB data (All-Flash)
- Network: 4x25Gbe NIC (two for management/control, two for customer traffic)
- AV52:
- CPU: 2 x Xeon Plat 8270 (Cascade Lake) – 26 cores at 2.7 GHz, 4.0 GHz Turbo, total of 52 physical cores and 104 HT cores
- RAM: 1.5 TB
- Storage: 1.5 GB NVMe cache 38.4 TB data (All-Flash)
- Network: 4x25Gbe NIC (two for management/control, two for customer traffic)
Note that an Azure VMware Solution cluster requires at least 3 nodes and can have a maximum of 16 cluster nodes.
The discounts are as follows (discount compared to Retail Pay-As-You-Go):
- AV36 – One Year term – 29%
- AV36 – Three Year term – 50%
- AV36P – One Year term – 29%
- AV36P – Three Year term – 50%
- AV52 – One Year term – 26%
- AV52 – Three Year term – 46%
Not bad if you really need to run VMware on Azure!
