VMware Migration Solutions
What Can You Do About VMware License Changes and Price Increases?
Challenges of Broadcom’s Acquisition of VMware
- End of perpetual license structure
- Implementation of a subscription based model
- Reduced flexibility as many VMWare products will no longer be sold going forward
- Reported VMware price increases of 2-3x
- Pressure to make quick decisions about renewals
It’s time to explore your options to determine whether staying with VMware makes sense, or if you should consider a lift and shift migration to public cloud infrastructure on AWS or Azure. Datavail is here to help you navigate these changes and find the best path forward for your organization.
VMware Migration Options
If you choose to take your VMware workloads to the cloud, you have the following migration options.
AWS VMware Migration Options
- VMware to Windows EC2: Migrate Windows-based workloads to Amazon EC2 for enhanced flexibility and access to AWS services.
- VMware to Linux EC2: Transition Linux-based workloads to EC2 for improved scalability and cost-effectiveness.
- VMware to SQL Server: Move databases to AWS RDS for SQL Server to simplify operations and boost performance.
Microsoft Azure VMware Migration Options
- VMware to Azure Virtual Machines: Migrate your workloads to Azure VMs for enhanced flexibility and access to Azure services.
- VMware to Azure SQL Server Managed Instance: Move databases to Azure SQL Server Managed Instance to simplify operations and boost performance.
How Datavail Can Help Accelerate Your VMware Migration
Migrations are complex and resource-intensive, often requiring skill sets that organizations don’t have in-house. The risks of failed migrations are substantial, but you can de-risk this process by working with an experienced cloud migration partner.
VMware Migration Services
Datavail, an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and an Advanced Specialization Microsoft Solutions Partner, offers comprehensive VMware migration services that include:
- Optimization and License Assessment (OLA)
- Cost estimates for your monthly cloud bill
- AWS and Azure lift and shift cloud migrations and modernization
- On-going managed support
- Site Reliability Engineering/Platform Engineering/DevOps
- Access to VMWare migration funding through our hyperscaler partnerships, allowing you to reduce migration costs and speed up your timeline.
Strong Certifications and Partnerships
Our deep cloud migration expertise is reflected through the 100s of certifications our team has, and the recognition received from our partners, which includes:
- AWS Windows Workload Competency
- AWS Oracle Competency
- AWS Data Analytics Competency
- Amazon RDS Service Delivery Partner
- Amazon Aurora Service Delivery Partner
- Microsoft Solutions Partner – Data & AI – Azure
- Microsoft Solutions Partner – Digital & App Innovation – Azure
- Microsoft Solutions Partner – Infrastructure – Azure
- Microsoft Solutions Partner – Security – Azure
- Microsoft Solutions Partner Advanced Specialization – Analytics
- Microsoft Solutions Partner Advanced Specialization – Migrate Enterprise Applications to Microsoft Azure
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VMware Impact Assessment and Migration Planning
We’ll help you answer critical questions:
- How does the Broadcom acquisition affect your VMware strategy?
- What are the potential cost impacts on your data center operations?
- What is the cost of moving to cloud?
- What is the monthly run cost of running all your workloads on cloud?
- What refactoring would be involved in switching virtualization technologies?
Datavail’s VMware Migration Approach
- Identify VMware workloads within your environment.
- Assess your VMware licenses and resources to determine the optimal migration path.
- Leverage funding opportunities to accelerate migrations and offset costs.
- Provide cost estimates for migration.
- Provide the monthly cloud cost for running workloads in the cloud.
- Develop a migration plan.
- Migrate workloads as per the migration plan.
Optimizing Your VMware Lift and Shift Migration
During our workload assessment, we focus on:
- Identifying workloads for migration
- Migration mapping (on-premises to cloud mapping for each virtual machine)
- Future state architecture
- Migration plan
- Migration waves
- Cutover plan
- Optimizing your cloud environments for lower consumption and licensing costs
Take the Next Step in Your VMware Migration
Don’t let VMware licensing changes disrupt your business. Whether you’re considering public cloud options, alternative hypervisors, or optimizing your current environment, Datavail has the expertise to guide you through this transition.
Contact us today to schedule an assessment and explore how we can help you navigate the changing VMware landscape while optimizing your IT infrastructure for the future.
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