Microsoft sparked VMware this month by announcing a preview of a "bare metal" VMware stack running on Microsoft Azure hardware.
The preview, called "VMware virtualization in Azure," was described as part of Microsoft's announcement last week that it introduced Azure Migrate. The free Azure Migrate service, which is currently available, provides discovery and evaluation services to move VMware-based multiserver applications to the Azure infrastructure.
Microsoft says that Azure Migrate can "resize" applications by discovering the CPU, disk, memory and network dependencies. If it works well, Azure Migrate is expected to generate the wrath of VMware, of course, but perhaps silently. However, VMware mainly raised strong objections about Microsoft's VMware virtualization in the Azure preview, which Microsoft described as an intermediate step for specific workloads that may be "harder to migrate to the cloud." This deployment of bare metal in the Azure infrastructure is not something that VMware supports, as Ajay Patel, senior vice president of product development at VMware Cloud Services, made clear.
"This offer [Microsoft VMware virtualization on Azure] was developed independently of VMware, and VMware neither certifies nor endorses it," Patel said in a VMware ad.
Microsoft claimed that VMware virtualization in the Azure preview was offered "in association with leading VMware certified partners." However, Patel objected saying that "VMware-certified partners' names have not been mentioned and none of its partners have collaborated with VMware in the engineering of this offer."
Patel noted that VMware has partnered with Amazon Web Services to support VMware Cloud in AWS, which is a jointly designed effort that is fully compatible with VMware. It also partnered with IBM to support IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, which similarly allows VMware workloads to run from the IBM cloud infrastructure. Microsoft Azure, however, is not one of those clouds supported by VMware.
"Our experience has shown that public cloud environments require significant joint engineering to perform enterprise workloads," Patel wrote. "Therefore, we can not endorse an unsupported, unsupported solution that is not optimized for the VMware stack, and VMware does not recommend and will not support clients running on Azure's announced partner offer."
More details on Microsoft's migration tools for VMware users will be available in a Microsoft web presentation scheduled for Tuesday, November 28 through this link (registration required). However, when you click on that registration page, it is indicated that the event will actually occur on December 13.
Speculation about the technical problems associated with Microsoft's announcement was discussed this week in a podcast presented by Keith Townsend, director of The CTO Advisor. He noted that cloud infrastructures often lack level 2 data link support, which complicates things for organizations trying to migrate to the cloud.
Townsend invites the podcast, Tim Carr, a cloud automation specialist at Ahead, said he was very excited about the announcement of Microsoft Azure Migrate due to the difficulties associated with data migration problems when bringing applications to the cloud. It is difficult to reconcile the different types of database management, he said. Carr also noted that many things can happen with these movements in the cloud from a network perspective, particularly with respect to ensuring high availability for applications.
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