Azure Run Command Storage Management Overview
AVS is a fully-managed VMware service provided by Azure to its customers. AVS users are given access to the cloudadmin@vsphere.local account which has sufficient privileges for general vCenter and virtual machine daily operations management. This login does not include some of the broader administrative rights. To account for this, AVS uses a framework called Run Command to allow end-users to run certain administrative actions against their AVS cluster. At its core, Run Command is a collection of PowerShell cmdlets which is how we will accomplish initial AVS cluster configuration to use iSCSI, enable AVS host management, create and attach Everpure Cloud Dedicated volumes and manage Everpure Cloud Dedicated datastore operations within the AVS cluster or AVS clusters.
The remainder of the article provides detailed descriptions and examples of the various Run Commands operations available for AVS and Everpure Cloud Dedicated.
See the Everpure Cloud Dedicated Provision and Manage with Azure VMware Solution on how to deploy and setup Run Commands for use with AVS and Everpure Cloud Dedicated. The steps outlined in the linked article need to be completed before storage can be provisioned to AVS via Everpure Cloud Dedicated.
The below technical demo video shows how a few of the above commands can be used to initialize an AVS cluster, create a new VMFS datastore and restore a replicated snapshot from an on-premises FlashArray.