Dennis · Hybrid Cloud Consultant · ANS

I build cloud infrastructure.

From Azure networking and VMware platforms to FortiGates and the odd homelab experiment. AzureToZ is where I write about the work, A to Z.

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HCX Mobility Optimized Networking: Getting Your Migrated VMs Off the Trombone

A walkthrough of VMware HCX Mobility Optimized Networking (MON) in Azure VMware Solution: what it actually changes on the wire, why router-location alone will not fix your routing, and how policy routes let you tune the path per workload.

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What I work on

Focus areas

Azure networking

Hub-and-spoke, VNet peering, routing and Azure Firewall across Azure environments.

Azure VMware Solution

Native VMware on Azure - migrations and hybrid operations without re-platforming.

VMware & VCF

vSphere, vSAN and Cloud Foundation for private-cloud platforms.

Network security

FortiGate firewalls, NSGs and segmentation between network zones.

AI

Practical uses for AI across infrastructure engineering and operations.

Homelab

Proxmox, VMware and bare metal - where I try everything first.