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Migrating from VMware to AWS Native: Getting Started

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Migrating from VMware to AWS Native: Getting Started

When considering migrating workloads that are currently on VMware virtual servers, it’s very important that you make the decision with the right data.

To do this, it is necessary to carry out a detailed analysis that not only covers a sizing of the infrastructure, but also considers the following aspects:

Different pricing model when considering cloud uploads.
Prioritize that you are not migrating servers, but applications.
How we impact the business areas that depend on infrastructure.
The connectivity of services and network aspects.
Consider how IT teams will work.
Be able to determine an architecture that supports the cloud schema.
Assess the knowledge requirements and profiles of IT staff.
An architecture that allows you to continue growing in the cloud.
A cloud governance that allows for correct strategy guidelines.
Supported security according to workloads.

In VMware infrastructures, everything is managed based on nodes with a certain storage capacity, with a complex structure that does not align with current business needs, for example:

Elasticity
Scalability
Rightsizing

In addition, you pay for Windows licensing for each virtual machine that is provisioned. In the cloud, that structure changes, since when you move it to native, they are AWS instances with total freedom. In this sense, it is possible to have schemes that experience the advantages mentioned above, going further with models that register greater efficiency than:

Leave costly licensing behind.
Have highly resilient serverless applications.

Derived from the importance of having an architecture of excellence in innovation, cost and efficiency, the AWS cloud has the Migration Acceleration Program, which includes a series of stages that allow you to design a successful migration strategy by reviewing every detail.

Identify Strategic Dependencies

It is part of the assessment that integrates the first stage and consists of knowing how some servers relate to each other. That is, an application can exist on one or more servers and, additionally, an application can be connected to others, to one or more databases and, in turn, it is possible that that application is used by one or more processes.

It is important to identify how they relate to each other, because when migrating we must be clear about it to define priorities and establish a path to the cloud that is feasible and scalable.

To do this, it is possible to have third-party tools such as Cloudamize, a tool that is installed in the current environment and that allows not only to analyze dependencies, but also to identify them.

In the same way, it makes it possible to discover another important point: when we have an on-premise infrastructure, as it is not scalable, we have servers with a certain CPU and RAM capacity that is not necessarily what our applications use. It may be that it is exceeded and, for example, it only reaches the limit at certain peaks in demand. Cloudamize also provides recommendations for the right size and type of instances, taking advantage of the scalability of the cloud.

With consulting services that are carried out in this assessment, third-party tools that we use for access to applications, security and monitoring are also visualized, because these must also be migrated to the cloud.

Cloud Environment Cost Forecasting

In the assessment stage, Cloud Economics schemes are also delivered, in which the costs of the cloud are correctly analyzed with a projection to 3 or 5 years with all the impact of maintaining an on-premise IT infrastructure compared to the current one.

Solutions are also made to prepare the team in the knowledge, accompaniment and preparation of the work teams. The objective is for them to get to know the core services of the cloud and also at the business level. This is how they will learn about a new way to determine and control the IT resource budget.

In addition to other stages within the program, such as Mobilize and Migrate, it is relevant to point out that AWS has, as part of the same program, economic incentives for the change from VMware to EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), which allow funding professional services for the migration and consumption of the production environment. All this makes the migration process easier and more achievable.

See you in the Cloud!

As part of its expertise in executing successful migrations, Itera is validated by Amazon Web Services (AWS). This level of partnership and competencies allows us to provide our customers with incentives, making a successful cloud migration strategy possible.

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Are you a VMware customer? It Is Urgent that You Start Migration

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Are you a VMware customer? It Is Urgent that You Start Migration

In 2023, with the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom, drastic changes were implemented in every way, both in the licensing scheme (no longer existing perpetual licenses) and in the way this technology is commercialized. So if you are a VMware customer, it is crucial to start migrating your loads to the cloud.

As a VMware customer, you must imperatively review the licensing and contract scheme you handle, raising the costs of maintaining servers in this regard.

The most relevant changes that affect you as a VMware customer are the following:

> New business models that change pricing schemes for VMware partners and customers.

> End of perpetual licenses.

> New subscription models for certain products with short-term and long-term subscriptions with usage-based licensing.

> Price increase of nearly 40%, impacting every VMware customer as a perpetual license user.

> Changes in renewal policies.

> Increased focus on the cloud, which makes virtualization solutions different.

Benefits of Migrating as a VMware Customer to AWS Native

In conversations with our customers in years past, the concern of migrating to Amazon Web Services (AWS) revolved around how to maintain the current architecture, dependencies, and connectivity. For this reason, we constantly heard from his own voice the latent fear of migrating to native services such as EC2 or RDS, preferring VMC schemes that were expensive and without taking advantage of the benefits of the cloud per se.

Migrating loads from a VMware client to native service schemes brings great benefits to businesses, such as:

> The loads can be optimized in costs and rightsizing, since being in an EC2 the instance is sought according to what is required, with the opportunity to change it as the behavior of the applications is understood.

> Licensing is no longer a problem, since in VMware Microsoft licensing, for example, must be purchased separately as in a regular physical server and updated, which at the time of quotation was not fully reflected and remained a hidden cost.

> In AWS, machines have the possibility of quoting with the operating system, both for servers and databases, always maintaining the most current and under an on-demand scheme, as well as the instances.

> When migrating to EC2, the path to modernization is much simpler than when trying to do it from a VMware client schema.

> Another problem is that VMware loads are often unupdated, over-provisioned, and without the needs that our end users now require. This represents a security risk, and the cost of over-provisioned machines impacts annual technology spending.

> Maintaining loads under the VMware client schema also delays the adoption of powerful databases such as self-managed ones, limiting low-cost multi-AZ schemes such as RDS on AWS.

Currently, companies need to stop thinking about rigid infrastructures that do not have scalability and that, when machines with better performance in terms of processing are required, the change is fast or even greater capacity is incorporated.

When you migrate as a VMware customer natively to AWS, it also allows you to design disruptive architectures, properly separating workloads, protecting data or core systems, isolating them from others and with a FinOps strategy. In this way, it is possible to properly identify the technology budgets invested by area.

About IT Governance

When we manage a cloud environment, the Government is facilitated. Whether with native AWS services that allow great control over strategy, access, policies, projects; or with the hassle-free incorporation of agility tools.

When migrating as a VMware customer to an AWS-native environment, the adoption of generative AI or Data Analytics is transparent and fast-paced. This is because everything is part of a whole with an incredible adaptability and services typical of the cloud.

Leveraging AWS Incentives Ensures a Migration with Excellence

When you make the decision to evaluate towards AWS it is not something you do alone. This cloud has free programs that allow us to analyze the infrastructure of our VMware customers.

Accompanied by professional services from Itera and AWS experts, these programs carry out the business analysis and design a successful migration plan with tests and validations before placing it in production.

And finally, AWS provides special financial benefits to those customers who come from a virtualized infrastructure on VMware. Favorably impacting each VMware customer in the business case to be evaluated

Based on our experience, we can say that:

> You have to lose the fear of migrating to AWS instances, because there is a pool of tools, incentives, and experts that accompany you throughout the process.

> We must evaluate each VMware customer as soon as possible due to the cost overflow with the arrival of Broadcom.

> Preparing our infrastructure to innovate must be a priority for the next 2 years.

> Having serverless, multi-AZ architectures is no longer a luxury, but a necessity to have a difference in the market.

> AWS-native schemes offer cost options with attractive savings versus what you pay as a VMware customer.

> The issue of licensing in native AWS schemes is no longer a problem and a risk for the business, specifically talking about Microsoft and Linux.

> The strategy of a cost-effective infrastructure is based on a Cloud Government in visibility, automation and scalability. Something that as a VMware customer you do not receive or have access to.

> Take advantage of the financial benefits that AWS offers now.

> By having Itera’s help to design the successful path, it ensures that it is a transparent migration.

See You in the Cloud!

Migrating as a VMware customer to native AWS services means breaking the paradigm of on-premise infrastructure to make way for an Innovation strategy that allows increasing the return on investment thanks to a better experience for customers, fast delivery capacity and a real and constant cost strategy.

Companies require a change in the way they operate, adapting and preparing for the speed that the world demands of us. Are you confident that your on-premise infrastructure will allow you to remain operationally efficient in the next 5 years?

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Migrating Data to the Cloud with VMware Cloud on AWS

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Migrating Data to the Cloud with VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware and AWS provide organizations with a fast, easy, and cost-effective path to hybrid cloud while enabling customers to modernize applications with co-engineered solutions. Use your current governance, processes, and skills to deliver secure virtual desktops and applications with our virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions to enable your workforce to work securely from any location. The new Amazon EC2 i3en.metal instances for VMware Cloud on AWS, powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, deliver high network performance and lower latency so you can migrate data centers to the cloud for rapid data center evacuation, disaster recovery, and application modernization.

With more than 3 years of co-engineering, VMware and AWS provide organizations with the benefits of enhanced VMware capabilities built into the solution and a single point of contact for support and integration of services. That’s why VMware Cloud on AWS is our preferred service for all vSphere workloads.

Proceeds

HIGHER LEVEL OF INNOVATION

VMware workloads running on AWS have access to a broad and comprehensive range of more than 175 AWS services, including compute, database, analytics, IoT, AI/machine learning, security, and more. Applications that are latency-sensitive and hosted on VMware can directly access Aurora, Dynamo, or Redshift databases to perform petabyte-scale data analytics. In addition, they have secure and direct access to S3 buckets, objects, and API functions at a low cost.

SIMPLIFIED OPERATIONS

Organizations can simplify their hybrid IT operations by using the same VMware Cloud Foundation technologies, including vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and vCenter Server, in both their on-premises data center environments and in the AWS Cloud. You can also keep the same VMware lifecycle, storage, and provisioning policies in place. This means you can easily migrate applications between on-premises and AWS environments without having to purchase new hardware, rewrite applications, or modify your operations.

COST REDUCTION

VMware Cloud on AWS enables organizations to optimize the costs of using a consistent and consistent hybrid IT environment. There is no need to deploy custom hardware in the on-premises environment, nor do you need to modify applications to switch to a hybrid cloud model. You can use VMware’s policy and management tools on-premises and in VMware Cloud on AWS, so you have a unified and operationally consistent experience. These capabilities allow you to leverage all of your existing investments to help save money.

IMPROVE AVAILABILITY

VMware Cloud on AWS helps accelerate the migration of VMware vSphere-based workloads to the highly scalable and available AWS Cloud. The service enables VMware-based workloads to run directly on Amazon EC2’s dedicated infrastructure based on next-generation Nitro systems and be provisioned in an isolated, single-tenant Amazon VPC. This strategy enables organizations to immediately take advantage of the scalability, availability, security, and global reach of the AWS Cloud.

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