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Optimization, migration, and modernization of VMware workloads to AWS.

Based on strategy and results, IBM clients’ transformation journeys are unique. Businesses must ensure that its infrastructure supports strategic goals like cost optimization, performance improvement, and cloud adoption as technology and business needs change.

After Broadcom acquired VMware, VMware clients confront transformational decisions in a shifting marketplace. IBM Consulting understands. IBM Consulting can assist VMware clients succeed through a variety of hybrid cloud transformation pathways using its expertise. These include on-premises modernization, cloud modernization, containerization with cloud-native technologies, or a mix.

VMware Modernization Assessment is a Rapid Strategy and Assessment that explores VMware’s future paths to achieve business success and manage risk.

IBM Cloud For VMWare Regulated Workloads

IBM will discuss how IBM Consulting can help organizations who prefer AWS-based cloud-native solutions using AWS’s modern tools and cloud services in this blog.

AWS offers VMware a complete platform with cloud services, global infrastructure, and strong security. This method avoids hardware dependence, scalability issues, and high operational costs of on-premises infrastructure. Organizations can use AWS’s scalability, pay-as-you-go pricing, and wide range of services to construct VMware workloads to AWS.

Clients considering data centre (DC) exits want to cut costs and simplify operations while improving security, compliance, and innovation.

Data centre consolidation can be accelerated by moving from VMware to the cloud or hybrid. IBM Consulting provides data centre migration (DC exit), a comprehensive solution to help organizations efficiently and strategically migrate from their data centre infrastructure to their cloud of choice, including AWS. IBM’s generative AI and IBM–AWS collaborative investments enable scaled migration.

AWS Cloud migration scenarios

To build new capabilities, boost operational efficiency, and implement cloud-native architecture on AWS Cloud, enterprises can explore numerous scenarios to relocate and modernize VMware workloads to AWs:

Clients can move VMware VMs to AWS instances first. This requires rehosting apps on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and maybe reconfiguring them for the cloud. After migration, organisations can modernise their applications to use AWS native services like Amazon RDS for database management, AWS Lambda for serverless computing, and Amazon S3 for scalable storage.

IBM’s container-first approach provides an end-to-end stack of solutions and services to satisfy modern organisations’ complex needs. From cloud infrastructure and AI to cybersecurity and data management, it covers it all. This product centres on ROSA and OpenShift Virtualization. These technologies demonstrate IBM’s commitment to flexible, scalable, and integrated business innovation and efficiency.

ROSA, EKS, and Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate may containerize workloads across the AWS Cloud to reduce vendor lock-in. Businesses can execute and manage containerized and virtual machine (VM) workloads on a single platform using Red Hat OpenShift virtualization.

Software as a service (SaaS): VMware applications can be migrated to AWS. The flexible, cost-effective, and efficient way to deliver software applications is SaaS.

Offered managed services: IBM is an AWS-certified MSP that can migrate VMware workloads to AWS managed services. AWS managed services automate and simplify cloud management. IBM services help organizations adapt and operate in the AWS Cloud with best practices, security, and compliance. Managed services let companies focus on their core business while IBM manages cloud infrastructure.

IBM Migration Factory speeds cloud migration

IBM understands AWS technologies from years of collaboration and expertise, enabling enterprise integration and optimisation. IBM provides a tailored strategy to meet clients’ needs.

AWS Migration Factory, based on IBM Garage Methodology, is a unique app modernization engagement approach from IBM Consulting. This squad-based, workstream-centric strategy uses gen AI and automation to scale rapid transformation.

The structured and efficient AWS Migration Factory framework migrates huge VMware workloads to AWS. Organizations may reduce risks, costs, and time for cloud migration by using automated technologies, best practices, and a phased strategy. The manufacturing speeds client engagements with cooperative incentive programmes.

IBM thoroughly evaluates the client’s VMware setup before migrating. This includes workload dependencies, performance metrics, and migration needs. Based on the assessment, a complete migration strategy should include timetables, resource allocation, and risk mitigation. The IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator, IBM Consulting Delivery Curator, IBM Consulting developer experience platform, and IBM Consulting AIOps solutions help plan, design, and execute end-to-end migration and modernization journeys.

These assets are supported by IBM Delivery Central. Digitising and improving delivery procedures and providing real-time oversight, this end-to-end delivery execution platform transforms delivery. Powered by generative AI, these assets and assistants serve key personas’ consumption modes.

Other AWS tools and services for VMware workload migration include AWS Migration Hub. It accelerates and automates application migration to AWS, offering visibility, tracking, and coordination, incorporating AWS Application Migration Services.

IBM’s Generative-AI migration tools

IBM used Amazon Bedrock to create migration tools and assets. Using Amazon Bedrock and generative AI, this unique approach migrates applications and workloads to the cloud.

Service-based AI-powered discovery: Extracts crucial data from client data repositories to speed up application discovery.

Artificial intelligence-powered migration aid: Transforms natural language questions into SQL queries to retrieve application and server migration status from a centralised data lake (Delivery Curator) during migration.

Generative AI design assistant: Uses models like llama2 on Delivery Curator’s centralised data store and the design assistant to speed up design.

IBM helped a worldwide manufacturer move VMware workloads to AWS

Moving to AWS may save costs, scale, and innovate for companies. IBM assisted a worldwide consumer products manufacturer in migrating 400 applications to AWS in two years as part of its product strategy shift. To increase agility, scalability, and security, the customer moved to AWS.

The customer also needed to train personnel on new data handling techniques and the architectural transition. To achieve these goals, the customer moved their technology from on-premises to AWS, which improved business performance by 50% and saved up to 50% utilising Amazon RDS.

Announcing VMware Rapid Migration Plan

Azure VMware Solution Documentation

Incentives and licensing advantages for the Azure VMware Solution, such as a brand-new 20% off

You are undoubtedly reassessing how to run your VMware workloads and whether to migrate them to the cloud or maintain them on-premises, just like a lot of other customers are doing these days. You will need to commit time and money to any route you decide on. This is a chance to think about your long-term platform strategy, making sure you allocate your resources effectively to pay down technical debt and position yourself for future success.

The advantages of executing your workloads in the cloud will increase in ways you haven’t yet realised as the AI era approaches. Your IT department must be prepared to handle new demands if you want your business to be a leader in its field:

When company demands emerge, will you be able to react quickly and effectively to satisfy them?

Are you ready to offer the necessary degrees of resilience, compliance, and security?

Do your developers have easy access to the most recent data and AI services, as well as the tools they need to innovate?

Have you optimised your environment with automation to free up staff members’ time for strategic initiatives?

Making the switch to Azure now will provide you peace of mind and offer you access to more than 200 cloud services, ensuring that you can confidently meet these business needs for years to come.

Azure VMware Solution

Azure is a full-featured cloud that offers services from edge computing to public cloud. For VMware customers, Azure VMware Solution is an excellent introduction to the cloud, and Microsoft is dedicated to working with Broadcom to satisfy the demands of Azure shared customer base.

Microsoft operates and provides support for a fully managed VMware environment in Azure with the Azure VMware Solution. Workloads from VMware can be moved “as is” to Azure, requiring little to no reworking of your apps. This simplifies the conversion process and allows you to pick up new Azure abilities while utilising your existing ones. In less than three months, the State of Alaska moved 1,200 servers with 700 apps on them. Because of its size and location, the state has particular problems. By centralising apps and data on Azure, the state was able to improve security and resilience while also enhancing data transparency for its residents.

Azure advise you to optimize using Azure security, automation, monitoring, and other services as part of your transition. The multinational manufacturing company Knorr-Bremse, with its headquarters in Germany, has successfully implemented this strategy. To ease their shift, they used Azure Migrate and Modernize, which covered staff training for Azure skills in addition to planning and migration.

They currently use Azure VMware Solution and other Azure IaaS and PaaS services to operate their workloads efficiently. Because you can use Azure management services, such as Azure Monitor, to control VMware workloads on-premises or even those running in other clouds, they are ideal for managing all of your cloud workloads. Azure becomes your new unified IT operations centre with access to any Azure service you require today or in the future thanks to this flexible strategy.

Utilize the VMware Rapid Migration Plan to get started

Microsoft offers you a wide range of licencing perks and programmes with the VMware Rapid Migration Plan, so you can transition to Azure VMware Solution with price protection and savings.Image credit to Azure

Azure VMware Solution pricing

Obtain discounts and price protection

To lock in prices for one, three, or five years, use Reserved Instances. Azure are pleased to announce that if you buy a new one-year Reserved Instance before December 31, 2024, you will receive a 20% discount on Azure VMware Solution. The Azure VMware Solution’s five-year Reserved Instance is only accessible for a short period of time; access expires on June 30, 2024.

Preserve current SQL Server and Windows Server licences

VMware environments are often used to run SQL Server and Windows Server. You can operate cloud versions of Windows Server and SQL Server in Azure VMware Solution without paying extra licencing fees if you acquire Software Assurance. Moreover, older versions that are nearing the end of their useful lives come with complimentary Extended Security Updates.

Obtain aid with migration

To obtain resources, professional assistance, and money for a smooth move, use Azure Migrate and Modernise.

Acquire Azure credits to update

You are eligible to receive an extra Azure credit of up to $120,000 when you purchase a new Reserved Instance for Azure VMware Solution. Use this to help you optimize and modernize in the cloud for Azure VMware Solution, or think about utilizing it for other Azure services.