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Transform VMware Workloads with Microsoft Azure
ALSO: The Cloud Migration Partner
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Move to cloud: VMware migration to Azure options (AVS or Azure native)
26.03.2025 14:00 CET
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Azure Arc: Bridge Your On-Premises and Cloud Workload
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Migrate & Modernise VMware Environment with Microsoft Azure. Help your customers transform their on-premises VMware environment into a future-ready cloud or hybrid setup. Microsoft Azure offers flexible paths and landing zones to modernisation—tailored to individual pace, needs, and strategy.
Stay on-prem: VMware hybrid solution with Azure (ARC and Local)
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Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
Azure Arc enabled VMware
Seamlessly lift and shift VMware workloads to Azure - no refactoring needed.
- Fast migration
- Familiar VMware tools
- Full access to Azure services via the Azure portal
For over 20 years, VMware has been a cornerstone in the infrastructure and operations landscape. Since Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware in 2023, rapid changes have prompted many CIOs to rethink their strategies. With licensing concerns and the need for modernization, migrating VMware workloads to Azure offers a seamless transition, leveraging existing expertise while embracing the cloud’s full potential.
Why Transition to Azure?
Broadcom’s changes to VMware products and licensing have increased on-premises costs, making cloud migration more appealing.
Azure also helps manage:
Licensing concerns
Datacenter expiry, software end-of-life issues
Urgent capacity needs
Enhancing security
Budgets and resources optimization
Effortless application scaling
Pathways to Cloud Success
Microsoft Azure Local (HCI)
Azure Arc enabled
Remain on-premises while embracing the cloud.
- Modernise locally with Azure Arc
- Unified management across environments
- Perfect for data sovereignty and edge scenarios
Microsoft Azure IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service
Modernise apps and infrastructure in the cloud.
- Deep integration with Azure services
- Scalable compute, storage, and networking
- Ideal for cloud-native transformation
Guide your Customer the Right way
ALSO provides the tools, expertise, and guidance to help you deliver seamless VMware-to-Azure migrations and build future-ready cloud environments.
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Azure Virtual Desktop: The Future of Remote Desktop Services
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Seamless Migration to the Cloud: Azure VMware Solution Explained
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Building a Future-Ready Infrastructure with Azure Local
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Free VMware Migration Assessment
Start with the ALSO VMware Migration Assessment in ACMP - a free service that evaluates your customers’ VMware infrastructure and delivers detailed sizing recommendations, tailored migration strategies and actionable insights for planning.
This assessment helps you identify the best-fit Azure landing zone and workload configuration for each customer.
ALSO supports you in analysing the Current Mode of Operation (CMO) and designing the Future Mode of Operation (FMO) with precision and clarity.
We help you build:
- High Level Design (HLD) – Strategic architecture planning
- Bill of Materials (BoM) – Resource and cost breakdown
- State of Works (SoW) – Clear deployment roadmap
Partner readiness
Need technical expertise to deliver confidently? ALSO guides you through the Microsoft Azure learning and certification path, helping you upskill your team, prepare for official Microsoft certifications and build credibility with customers.
Our e-learning platform and online courses are tailored for ALSO partners and available in multiple languages.
ALSO Centre of Excellence team
David Yegros Fabián
IT Infrastructure Architect Pre-Sales at ALSO Group
Senior international IT Infrastructure Architect Pre-Sales with a wide multi-cloud background from ALSO Group, VMware, Kyndryl, IBM and Telefónica. VMware Certified Advanced Professional
Technical Pre-sales, VMware at ALSO Group
Jim Ekberg-Hegner
Success Stories
Unified Management with Azure Arc
Azure Arc bridges on-premises and cloud environments, providing a single control plane for operations, security, and development.
Deploy Powerful Workloads
Whether in the cloud or on-premises, Azure platforms support a wide range of enterprise workloads:
- Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- SQL Server
- Azure Local VMs & Storage
Success stories from the ALSO Centre of Excellence (CoE) team showcasing impactful collaborations delivered together with our partners and their end-customers.
"ALSO works with different partners and end-customers for a better understanding of their requirements to migrate from an on-prem VMware environment including services as Citrix to a new Azure landing zone solution completed with Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop workloads, including the design, deployment, installation and finally migration of all these workloads.
The ALSO team emphasizes the creation of a bill of materials and the state of works for a correct sizing and quotation of the solution."
France
"Mahr EDV is working with ALSO to determine the requirements for migrating a customer's local VMware environment, including Horizon, to Microsoft Azure IaaS/Cloud with Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Virtual Desktop and other Azure services.
This support includes design, provisioning, installation and migration to the new environment."
Jan Mucks, IT System Administrator at Mahr EDV GmbH
Germany
"At ALSO Group we have worked together with Italian partners to understand all the building blocks of the Microsoft Azure Local and Azure Arc and then to analyze all the needs and requirements to correctly shape and size the new environment, focusing on the billing and price structure and the steps for the deployment of a new solution."
Italy
ALSO Professional Services
With ALSO Professional Services, you are empowered to guide your customers through every stage of cloud migration and modernisation. ALSO provides expert support in designing and deploying the customer's Future Mode of Operation (FMO) - based on detailed Low-Level Design (LLD) documentation. This includes establishing a secure, scalable cloud foundation through Azure Landing Zone Design and Deployment, and selecting the right tools and approach for each customer workload as part of a tailored Azure Migration Strategy.
To complete the solution, ALSO helps partners integrate key components such as Unstructured Data Management and Backup & Disaster Recovery etc.
Whether the customer is:
- Migrating from an on-premises VMware environment to Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS) which allows for a seamless transition without refactoring while offering opportunities to enhance capabilities and explore the VMware Cloud Foundation stack.
- Transitioning from VMware Horizon to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) which requires a strategic re-architecture of the virtual desktop environment with careful planning and execution.
ALSO equips partners with the expertise and resources to deliver tailored, future-ready cloud solutions to their customers.