Did you know that you can deploy native VMWare virtual machines into Azure?
Yeah, I didn’t either until earlier this month.
Expanding VMWare
If you are running VMware current in your on-premises, this solution would allow you to create a VMware cluster using dedicated Azure resources. These resources are based on hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) which could introduce other issues. In my experience, HCI implementations leave some things to left to be desired and I have seen issues in both overall performance as well as ease of scalability in other HCI implementations.