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{
"items": [
{
"category": "BCDR",
"subcategory": "Backup",
"text": "Ensure backups are not stored on vSAN as vSAN is a finite resource",
"description": "Ensure data repositories for the backup solution are stored outside of vSAN storage. Either in Azure native or on a disk pool-backed datastore",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "976f32a7-30d1-6caa-c2a0-207fdc26571b",
"id": "A01.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/set-up-backup-server-for-azure-vmware-solution"
},
{
"category": "BCDR",
"subcategory": "Business Continuity",
"text": "Use MABS as your backup solution",
"description": "Microsoft backup service",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "fc8af7a1-c724-e255-c18d-4ca22a6f27f0",
"id": "A02.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/set-up-backup-server-for-azure-vmware-solution"
},
{
"category": "BCDR",
"subcategory": "Business Continuity",
"text": "Deploy your backup solution in the same region as your Azure VMware Solution private cloud",
"description": "Best practice - this is Backup, not disaster recovery",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "be28860f-3d29-a79a-1a0e-36f1b23b36ae",
"id": "A02.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "Best practice to deploy backup in the same region as your AVS deployment"
},
{
"category": "BCDR",
"subcategory": "Business Continuity",
"text": "Preferably deploy MABS outside of the SDDC as native Azure IaaS",
"description": "Best practice - in case AVS is unavailable",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "4d2f79a5-4ccf-0dfc-557c-49619b99a540",
"id": "A02.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/set-up-backup-server-for-azure-vmware-solution"
},
{
"category": "BCDR",
"subcategory": "Business Continuity",
"text": "Escalation process with Microsoft in the event of a regional DR",
"description": "Is a process in place to request a restore of the VMware components managed by the Azure Platform?",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "ff431c40-962c-5182-d536-0c2f0c4ce9e0",
"id": "A02.04",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "Will Disaster Recovery Site Recovery, HCX Disaster Recovery, SRM or back tools be used?"
},
{
"category": "BCDR",
"subcategory": "Disaster Recovery",
"text": "Use VMware Site Recovery Manager when both sites are Azure VMware Solution",
"description": "Compare SRM with HCX",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "f379436d-3051-daa0-01fb-dc4e0e04d677",
"id": "A03.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/disaster-recovery-using-vmware-site-recovery-manager"
},
{
"category": "BCDR",
"subcategory": "Disaster Recovery",
"text": "Use Azure Site Recovery when the Disaster Recovery technology is native Azure IaaS",
"description": "Recovery into Azure instead of Vmware solution",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "367f71d8-3cf6-51a0-91a5-3db3d570cc19",
"id": "A03.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/site-recovery/avs-tutorial-prepare-azure"
},
{
"category": "BCDR",
"subcategory": "Disaster Recovery",
"text": "Use Automated recovery plans with either of the Disaster solutions,",
"description": "Avoid manual tasks as much as possible",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "ee02ada0-1887-bb3a-b84c-423f45a09ef9",
"id": "A03.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/site-recovery/avs-tutorial-prepare-azure"
},
{
"category": "BCDR",
"subcategory": "Disaster Recovery",
"text": "Configure a secondary disaster recovery environment",
"description": "Any other datacenter in the same region",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "0c2b74e5-9c28-780d-1df3-12d3de4aaa76",
"id": "A03.04",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/connect-multiple-private-clouds-same-region"
},
{
"category": "BCDR",
"subcategory": "Disaster Recovery",
"text": "Assign IP ranges unique to each region",
"description": "Use 2 different address spaces between the regions, for example: 10.0.0.0/16 and 192.168.0.0/16 for the different regions",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "c2a34ec4-2933-4e6c-dc36-e20e67abbe3f",
"id": "A03.05",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-best-practices/plan-for-ip-addressing"
},
{
"category": "BCDR",
"subcategory": "Disaster Recovery",
"text": "Use Global Reach between DR regions",
"description": "ExpressRoute Global Reach can be used for connectivity between the primary and secondary Azure VMware Solution Private Clouds or routing must be done through network virtual appliances?",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "b44fb6ec-bfc1-3a8e-dba2-ca97f0991d2c",
"id": "A03.06",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "This depends if you have multiple AVS Private Clouds. If so and they are in the same region then use AVS Interconnect. If they are in separate regions then use ExpressRoute Global Reach."
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "Direct (no vWAN, no H&S)",
"text": "Global Reach to ExR circuit - no Azure resources",
"description": "An ExR Global Reach connection will be established to the ExR circuit, no other connections",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "a2c12df2-07fa-3edd-2cec-fda0b55fb952",
"id": "B01.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/tutorial-expressroute-global-reach-private-cloud"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "ExpressRoute",
"text": "Connect to Azure using ExR",
"description": "Use ExR to connect on-premises (other) location to Azure",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "f62ce162-ba5a-429d-674e-fafa1af5f706",
"id": "B02.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/tutorial-expressroute-global-reach-private-cloud"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "ExpressRoute",
"text": "Bandwidth sizing",
"description": "Use the migration assesment tool and timeline to determine bandwidth required",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "cf01c73b-1247-0a7a-740c-e1ea29bda340",
"id": "B02.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/expressroute/expressroute-introduction"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "ExpressRoute",
"text": "Traffic routing ",
"description": "What traffic is routed through a firewall, what goes directly into Azure",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "aab216ee-8941-315e-eada-c7e1f2243bd1",
"id": "B02.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/solution-ideas/articles/azure-vmware-solution-foundation-networking"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "ExpressRoute",
"text": "Global Reach ",
"description": "AVS to ExR circuit, no traffic inspection",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "1f956e45-f62d-5c95-3a95-3bab718907f8",
"id": "B02.04",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/solution-ideas/articles/azure-vmware-solution-foundation-networking"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "Hub & Spoke",
"text": "VNet name & address space",
"description": "Name of the vNet and a unique address space /24 minimum",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "91f7a87b-21ac-d712-959c-8df2ba034253",
"id": "B03.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/quick-create-portal"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "Hub & Spoke",
"text": "Gateway subnet",
"description": "Subnet must be called GatewaySubnet",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "58a027e2-f37f-b540-45d5-e44843aba26b",
"id": "B03.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/vpn-gateway/vpn-gateway-about-vpn-gateway-settings"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "Hub & Spoke",
"text": "VPN Gateway",
"description": "Create a VPN gateway on the hub Gateway subnet",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "d4806549-0913-3e79-b580-ac2d3706e65a",
"id": "B03.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/vpn-gateway/vpn-gateway-about-vpn-gateway-settings"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "Hub & Spoke",
"text": "ExR Gateway",
"description": "Create an ExR Gateway in the hub Gateway subnet.",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "864d7a8b-7016-c769-a717-61af6bfb73d2",
"id": "B03.04",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/vpn-gateway/vpn-gateway-about-vpn-gateway-settings"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "Internet",
"text": "Egress point",
"description": "How will Internet traffic be routes, Az Firewall, NVA, Secure Hub, On-Premises firewall?",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "cc2e11b9-7911-7da1-458c-d7fcef794aad",
"id": "B04.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/enable-public-internet-access"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "Jumpbox & Bastion",
"text": "Remote connectivity to AVS",
"description": "Allow remote connectivity to AVS via the portal, specifically to vCenter, NSX-T and HCX",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "71e68ce3-982e-5e56-0191-01100ad0e66f",
"id": "B05.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/answers/questions/171195/how-to-create-jump-server-in-azure-not-bastion-paa.html"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "Jumpbox & Bastion",
"text": "Configure a jumbox and Azure Bastion",
"description": "Name the jumpbox and identify the subnet where it will be hosted",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "6f8e93a2-44b1-bb1d-28a1-4d5b3c2ea857",
"id": "B05.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/bastion/tutorial-create-host-portal"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "Jumpbox & Bastion",
"text": "Security measure allowing RDP access via the portal",
"description": "Provides secure / seamless RDP/SSH connectivity to your vm's directly through the portal.",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "ba430d58-4541-085c-3641-068c00be9bc5",
"id": "B05.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/network-security-groups-overview"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "VPN",
"text": "Connect to Azure using a VPN",
"description": "Using a VPN to connect to Azure to enable VMware communications (HCX) (not recommended)",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "9988598f-2a9f-6b12-9b46-488415ceb325",
"id": "B06.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/configure-site-to-site-vpn-gateway"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "VPN",
"text": "Bandwidth sizing",
"description": "Use the migration assesment tool and timeline to determine bandwidth required (eg 3rd party tool in link)",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "956ce5e9-a862-fe2b-a50d-a22923569357",
"id": "B06.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/data-transfer#:~:text=To%20calculate%20the%20data%20transfer%20speed%3A%201%20Download,measured%20time%20to%20find%20the%20data%20transfer%20speed."
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "VPN",
"text": "Traffic routing ",
"description": "What traffic is routed through a firewall, what goes directly into Azure",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "e095116f-0bdc-4b51-4d71-b9e469d56f59",
"id": "B06.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/solution-ideas/articles/azure-vmware-solution-foundation-networking"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "vWAN hub",
"text": "vWAN name, hub name and address space",
"description": "Name and unique address space for the vWAN, name for the vWAN hub",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "4dc480ac-cecd-39c4-fdc6-680b300716ab",
"id": "B07.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-site-to-site-portal#openvwan"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "vWAN hub",
"text": "ExR and/or VPN gateway provisioned",
"description": "Select either boh or the appropriate connection type.",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "51d6affd-8e02-6aea-d3d4-0baf618b3076",
"id": "B07.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-point-to-site-portal"
},
{
"category": "Connectivity",
"subcategory": "vWAN hub",
"text": "Secure vWAN",
"description": "Add Azure firewall to vWAN (recommended)",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "e32a4c67-3dc0-c134-1c12-52d46dcbab5b",
"id": "B07.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-expressroute-portal"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Access",
"text": "External Identity (user accounts)",
"description": "Active directory or other identity provider servers",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "fbc47fbf-bc96-fa93-ed5d-8c9be63cd5c3",
"id": "C01.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/configure-identity-source-vcenter"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Access",
"text": "If using AD domain, ensure Sites & Services has been configured",
"description": "Not required for LDAPS, required for Kerberos",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "b5db7975-f6bb-8ba3-ee5f-e3e805887997",
"id": "C01.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/plan/understanding-active-directory-site-topology"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Access",
"text": "Use LDAPS not ldap ( vCenter)",
"description": "Authentication for users, must be secure.",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "c30749c4-e2af-558c-2eb9-0b6ae84881d1",
"id": "C01.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/configure-identity-source-vcenter"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Access",
"text": "Use LDAPS not ldap (NSX-T)",
"description": "Authentication for users, must be secure.",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "64cb9b5c-9edd-787e-1dd8-2b2338e51635",
"id": "C01.04",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/configure-external-identity-source-nsx-t"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Security",
"text": "Security certificate installed on LDAPS servers ",
"description": "CN or SAN names, no wildcards, contains private key - CER or PFX",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "bec285ab-037e-d629-81d1-f61dac23cd4c",
"id": "C02.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://youtu.be/4jvfbsrhnEs"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Security",
"text": "RBAC applied to Azure roles",
"description": "Standard Azure Roles Based Access Controls",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "4ba394a2-3c33-104c-8e34-2dadaba9cc73",
"id": "C02.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/concepts-identity"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Security",
"text": "RBAC model in vCenter",
"description": "Create roles in vCenter required to meet minimum viable access guidelines",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "b04ca129-83a9-3494-7512-347dd2d766db",
"id": "C02.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/concepts-identity#view-the-vcenter-server-privileges"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Security",
"text": "CloudAdmin role usage",
"description": "CloudAdmin account in vCenter IdP is used only as an emergency account (break-glass)",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "8e477d2f-8004-3dd0-93d6-0aece9e1b2fb",
"id": "C02.04",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "Best practice"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Security ",
"text": "Is Privileged Identity Management implemented",
"description": "For roles managing the Azure VMware Solution resource in the Azure Portal (no standing permissions allowed)",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "00e0b729-f9be-f600-8c32-5ec0e8f2ed63",
"id": "C03.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/privileged-identity-management/pim-configure"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Security ",
"text": "Is Privileged Identity Management audit reporting implemented",
"description": "For the Azure VMware Solution PIM roles",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "0842d45f-41a8-8274-1155-2f6ed554d315",
"id": "C03.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/privileged-identity-management/pim-configure"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Security ",
"text": "Limit use of CloudAdmin account to emergency access only",
"description": "Best practice, also see Monitoring/Alerts",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "915cbcd7-0640-eb7c-4162-9f33775de559",
"id": "C03.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "Best practice"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Security ",
"text": "Is a process defined to regularly rotate cloudadmin (vCenter) and admin (NSX) credentials",
"description": "Operational procedure",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "7effa0c0-9172-e8e4-726a-67dbea8be40a",
"id": "C03.04",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/rotate-cloudadmin-credentials?tabs=azure-portal"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Operations",
"text": "AVS VM Management (Azure Arc)",
"description": "Use Azure ARC for Servers to properly govern workloads running on Azure VMware Solution using Azure native technologies (Azure ARC for Azure VMware Solution is not yet available)",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "8f426fd0-d73b-d398-1f6f-df0cbe262a82",
"id": "D01.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-arc/vmware-vsphere/overview"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Operations",
"text": "Azure policy",
"description": "Use Azure Policy to onboard Azure VMware Solution workloads in the Azure Management, Monitoring and Security solutions",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "11dbe773-e380-9191-1418-e886fa7a6fd0",
"id": "D01.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/governance/policy/overview"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Operations",
"text": "Resource locks",
"description": "For manual deployments, consider implementing resource locks to prevent accidental actions on your Azure VMware Solution Private Cloud",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "1e59c639-9b7e-a60b-5e93-3798c1aff5db",
"id": "D01.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/lock-resources?tabs=json#configure-locks"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Operations",
"text": "Run books",
"description": "For manual deployments, all configuration and deployments must be documented",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "8f2c46aa-ca1b-cad3-3ac9-213dfc0a265e",
"id": "D01.04",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "Make sure to create your own runbook on the deployment of AVS."
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Operations",
"text": "Naming conventions for auth keys",
"description": "Implement human understandable names for ExR authorization keys to allow for easy identification of the keys purpose/use",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "86b314f9-1f1e-317a-4dfb-cf510ad4a030",
"id": "D01.05",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-best-practices/resource-abbreviations"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "Alerts",
"text": "Create warning alerts for critical thresholds ",
"description": "For automatic alerting on Azure VMware Solution performance (CPU >80%, Avg Memory >80%, vSAN >70%)",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "e22a2d99-eb71-7d7c-07af-6d4cdb1d4443",
"id": "E01.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/configure-alerts-for-azure-vmware-solution"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "Alerts",
"text": "Create critical alert vSAN consumption",
"description": "for automatic alerting on Azure VMware Solution performance (CPU >80%, Avg Memory >80%, vSAN >70%)",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "6d02f159-627d-79bf-a931-fab6d947eda2",
"id": "E01.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/configure-alerts-for-azure-vmware-solution"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "Alerts",
"text": "Configured for Azure Service Health alerts and notifications",
"description": "Provides platform alerts (generated by Microsoft)",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "1cc97b39-2c7e-246f-6d73-789cfebfe951",
"id": "E01.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://www.virtualworkloads.com/2021/04/azure-vmware-solution-azure-service-health/"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "Backup",
"text": "Backup policy",
"description": "Ensure you have a documented and implemented backup policy and solution for Azure VMware Solution VM workloads",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "0962606c-e3b4-62a9-5661-e4ffd62a4509",
"id": "E02.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/set-up-backup-server-for-azure-vmware-solution"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "Capacity",
"text": "Policy around ESXi host density and efficiency",
"description": "Keep in mind the lead time for requesting new nodes",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "4ec7ccfb-795e-897e-4a84-fd31c04eadc6",
"id": "E03.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/configure-alerts-for-azure-vmware-solution"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "Costs",
"text": "Ensure a good cost management process is in place for Azure VMware Solution - ",
"description": "Azure Cost Management can be used - one option, put AVS in it's own Subscription. ",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "7f8f175d-13f4-5298-9e61-0bc7e9fcc279",
"id": "E04.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/azure-vmware/govern"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "Dashboard",
"text": "Connection monitor dashboard",
"description": "Create dashboards to enable core Azure VMware Solution monitoring insights",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "01e689e0-7c6c-b58f-37bd-4d6b9b1b9c74",
"id": "E05.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-portal/azure-portal-dashboards"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "Logs & Metrics",
"text": "Configure Azure VMware Solution logging ",
"description": "Send to an Azure Storage account or Azure EventHub for processing (direct to Log Analytics is pending)",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "f9afdcc9-649d-d840-9fb5-a3c0edcc697d",
"id": "E06.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/configure-vmware-syslogs"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "Logs & Metrics",
"text": "vRealize Operations",
"description": "Must be on-premises, implement if available",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "7cbac8c3-4eda-d5d9-9bda-c6b5abba9fb6",
"id": "E06.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "Is vROPS or vRealize Network Insight going to be used? "
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "Logs & Metrics",
"text": "AVS VM logging",
"description": "Ensure workloads running on Azure VMware Solution are monitored using Azure Log Analytics and Azure Monitor",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "b243521a-644d-f865-7fb6-21f9019c0dd2",
"id": "E06.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/configure-vmware-syslogs"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "Network",
"text": "Monitor ExpressRoute and/or VPN connections ",
"description": "Between on-premises to Azure are monitored using 'connection monitor'",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "2ca97d91-dd36-7229-b668-01036ccc3cd3",
"id": "E07.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/network-watcher/connection-monitor-create-using-portal"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "Network",
"text": "Monitor from an Azure native resource to an Azure VMware Solution VM",
"description": "To monitor the Azure VMware Solution back-end ExpressRoute connection (Azure native to AVS)",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "99209143-60fe-19f0-5633-8b5671277ba5",
"id": "E07.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/network-watcher/connection-monitor-create-using-portal"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "Network",
"text": "Monitor from an on-premises resource to an Azure VMware Solution VM",
"description": "To monitor end-to-end, on-premises to AVS workloads",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "b9e5867c-57d3-036f-fb1b-3f0a71664efe",
"id": "E07.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/network-watcher/connection-monitor-create-using-portal"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "Security",
"text": "Auditing and logging is implemented for inbound internet ",
"description": "Track requests to Azure VMware Solution and Azure VMware Solution based workloads",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "4af7c5f7-e5e9-bedf-a8cf-314b81735962",
"id": "E08.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "Firewall logging and alerting rules are configured (Azure Firewall or 3rd party)"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "Security",
"text": "Session monitoring ",
"description": "Implemented for outbound internet connections from Azure VMware Solution or Azure VMware Solution based workloads to identify suspicious/malicious activity",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "74be60a3-cfac-f057-eda6-3ee087e805d5",
"id": "E08.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/azure-vmware/eslz-network-topology-connectivity"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "VMWare",
"text": "Logging and diagnostics",
"description": "Enable Diagnostic and metric logging on Azure VMware Solution",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "a434b3b5-f258-0845-cd76-d7df6ef5890e",
"id": "E09.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/configure-vmware-syslogs"
},
{
"category": "Monitoring",
"subcategory": "VMware",
"text": "Log Analytics Agents deployed on Azure VMware Solution guest VM workloads",
"description": "Monitor AVS workloads (each VM in AVS)",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "fb00b69a-83ec-ce72-446e-6c23a0cab09a",
"id": "E10.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/agents/agent-windows?tabs=setup-wizard"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hub & Spoke",
"text": "North/South routing through Az Firewall or 3rd party ",
"description": "Decision on traffic flow",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "a1354b87-e18e-bf5c-c50b-8ddf0540e971",
"id": "F01.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/concepts-hub-and-spoke"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hub & Spoke",
"text": "East West (Internal to Azure)",
"description": "Decision to route Azure to Azure traffic through Firewall, not E/W between AVS workloads (internal to AVS)",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "29a8a499-ec31-f336-3266-0895f035e379",
"id": "F01.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/concepts-hub-and-spoke"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hub & Spoke",
"text": "ExR without Global Reach",
"description": "Requires a 3rd party NVA with Azure Route server - Scenario 2 (see link)",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "ebd3cc3c-ac3d-4293-950d-cecd8445a523",
"id": "F01.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/azure-vmware/eslz-network-topology-connectivity"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hub & Spoke",
"text": "Route server ",
"description": "When route server is used, ensure no more then 200 routes are propagated from route server to ExR gateway to on-premises (ARS limit). Important when using MoN",
"waf": "Operations",
"guid": "ffb5c5ca-bd89-ff1b-8b73-8a54d503d506",
"id": "F01.04",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/route-server/route-server-faq"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Internet",
"text": "Egress point(s)",
"description": "Via on-premises, Az Firewall, 3rd Party, NSX-T pubic IP",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "a4070dad-3def-818d-e9f7-be440d10e7de",
"id": "F02.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/concepts-design-public-internet-access"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Internet",
"text": "Internet facing applications",
"description": "Az Firewall, 3rd party NVA, Application Gateway, Azure Frontdoor ",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "e942c03d-beaa-3d9f-0526-9b26cd5e9937",
"id": "F02.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "Research and choose optimal solution for each application"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Routing",
"text": "When route server Route limit understood? ",
"description": "Ensure no more then 200 routes are propagated from route server to ExR gateway to on-premises (ARS limit). Important when using MoN",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "e778a2ec-b4d7-1d27-574c-14476b167d37",
"id": "F03.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/route-server/route-server-faq#route-server-limits"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Security",
"text": "Is DDoS standard protection of public facing IP addresses? ",
"description": "(VPN Gateway, AppGW, FrontDoor, Load balancer, VMs (etc) (Remove: enabled on ExR/VPN Gateway subnet in Azure)",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "66c97b30-81b9-139a-cc76-dd1d94aef42a",
"id": "F04.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/ddos-protection/manage-ddos-protection"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Security",
"text": "Use a dedicated privileged access workstation (PAW)",
"description": "To manage Azure VMware Solution, vCenter, NSX manager and HCX manager",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "d43da920-4ecc-a4e9-dd45-a2986ce81d32",
"id": "F04.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "Best practice: Bastion or 3rd party tool"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Traffic Inspection",
"text": "East West (Internal to AVS)",
"description": "Use NSX-T for inter-vmware-traffic inspection",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "a2dac74f-5380-6e39-25e6-f13b99ece51f",
"id": "F05.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T-Data-Center/3.2/administration/GUID-F6685367-7AA1-4771-927E-ED77727CFDA3.html"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "Use Secure Hub (Azure Firewall or 3rd party)",
"description": "Decision on whether or not to use Secure hub for E/W and Internet traffic - requires Global Reach",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "3f621543-dfac-c471-54a6-7b2849b6909a",
"id": "F06.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/networking/hub-spoke-vwan-architecture"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "East West (Internal to Azure)",
"description": "Decision to route Azure to Azure traffic through Firewall, not E/W between AVS workloads (internal to AVS)",
"waf": "Security",
"guid": "d7af5670-1b39-d95d-6da2-8d660dfbe16b",
"id": "F06.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/firewall-manager/secure-cloud-network"
},
{
"category": "Other Services/Operations",
"subcategory": "Automated Scale",
"text": "Scale out operations planning",
"description": "When intending to use automated scale-out, be sure to apply for sufficient Azure VMware Solution quota for the subscriptions running Azure VMware Solution",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "7d049005-eb35-4a93-50a5-3b31a9f61161",
"id": "G01.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/configure-nsx-network-components-azure-portal"
},
{
"category": "Other Services/Operations",
"subcategory": "Automated Scale",
"text": "Scale in operations planning",
"description": "When intending to use automated scale-in, be sure to take storage policy requirements into account before performing such action",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "7242c1de-da37-27f3-1ddd-565ccccb8ece",
"id": "G01.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/azure-vmware/eslz-platform-automation-and-devops#automated-scale"
},
{
"category": "Other Services/Operations",
"subcategory": "Automated Scale",
"text": "Scale serialized operations planning",
"description": "Scaling operations always need to be serialized within a single SDDC as only one scale operation can be performed at a time (even when multiple clusters are used)",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "3233e49e-62ce-97f3-8737-8230e771b694",
"id": "G01.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/azure-vmware/eslz-platform-automation-and-devops#automated-scale"
},
{
"category": "Other Services/Operations",
"subcategory": "Automated Scale",
"text": "Scale rd operations planning",
"description": "Consider and validate scaling operations on 3rd party solutions used in the architecture (supported or not)",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "68161d66-5707-319b-e77d-9217da892593",
"id": "G01.04",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "Best practice (testing)"
},
{
"category": "Other Services/Operations",
"subcategory": "Automated Scale",
"text": "Scale maximum operations planning",
"description": "Define and enforce scale in/out maximum limits for your environment in the automations",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "c32cb953-e860-f204-957a-c79d61202669",
"id": "G01.05",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "Operational planning - understand workload requirements"
},
{
"category": "Other Services/Operations",
"subcategory": "Automated Scale",
"text": "Monitor scaling operations ",
"description": "Implement monitoring rules to monitor automated scaling operations and monitor success and failure to enable appropriate (automated) responses",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "7bd65a5e-7b5d-652d-dbea-fc6f73a42857",
"id": "G01.06",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/azure-vmware/eslz-management-and-monitoring"
},
{
"category": "Other Services/Operations",
"subcategory": "Networking",
"text": "Private link",
"description": "Consider the use of Azure Private-Link when using other Azure Native Services",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "95e374af-8a2a-2672-7ab7-b4a1be43ada7",
"id": "G02.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/private-link/private-link-overview"
},
{
"category": "Other Services/Operations",
"subcategory": "Networking",
"text": "Provisioning Vmware VLANs",
"description": "When performing automated configuration of NSX-T segments with a single Tier-1 gateway, use Azure Portal APIs instead of NSX-Manager APIs",
"waf": "Performance",
"guid": "71eff90d-5ad7-ac60-6244-2a6f7d3c51f2",
"id": "G02.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "Best practice"
},
{
"category": "Planning",
"subcategory": "Pre-deployment",
"text": "Region selected",
"description": "In which region will AVS be deployed",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "04e3a2f9-83b7-968a-1044-2811811a924b",
"id": "H01.01",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/plan/understanding-active-directory-site-topology"
},
{
"category": "Planning",
"subcategory": "Pre-deployment",
"text": "Data residency compliant with selected regions",
"description": "Are there regulatory or compliance policies in play",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "e52d1615-9cc6-565c-deb6-743ed7e90f4b",
"id": "H01.02",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "Internal policy or regulatory compliance"
},
{
"category": "Planning",
"subcategory": "Pre-deployment",
"text": "Request for number of AVS hosts submitted ",
"description": "Request through the support blade",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "92bd5ad6-441f-a983-7aa9-05dd669d760b",
"id": "H01.03",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/migrate/concepts-azure-vmware-solution-assessment-calculation"
},
{
"category": "Planning",
"subcategory": "Pre-deployment",
"text": "Region and number of AVS nodes approved",
"description": "PG approval for deployment",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "28370f63-1cb8-2e35-907f-c5516b6954fa",
"id": "H01.04",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "Support request through portal or get help from Account Team"
},
{
"category": "Planning",
"subcategory": "Pre-deployment",
"text": "Resource provider for AVS registered",
"description": "Portal/subscription/resource providers/ Microsoft.AVS",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "96c76997-30a6-bb92-024d-f4f93f5f57fa",
"id": "H01.05",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "Done through the subscription/resource providers/ AVS register in the portal"
},
{
"category": "Planning",
"subcategory": "Pre-deployment",
"text": "Landing zone architecture",
"description": "Connectivity, subscription & governanace model",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "5898e3ff-5e6b-bee1-6f85-22fee261ce63",
"id": "H01.06",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/azure-vmware/enterprise-scale-landing-zone"
},
{
"category": "Planning",
"subcategory": "Pre-deployment",
"text": "Resource group name selected",
"description": "The name of the RG where AVS will exist",
"waf": "Reliability",
"guid": "d0181fb8-9cb8-bf4b-f5e5-b5f9bf7ae4ea",
"id": "H01.07",