Accelerate Your Cloud Migration: A VMware User's Guide

Published on 31 Jul 2024

Broadcom’s securing of VMware has cleared out numerous clients stressed around potential cost climbs, diminished development, and lower benefit levels. This white paper is your roadmap to navigating these uncertainties by accelerating cloud adoption and extending VMware operations to the public cloud, ensuring your business stays agile and resilient.

Cloud Pain Points

Moving VMware workloads to the cloud includes noteworthy challenges:

Migration Strategy: Decide whether to rehost, re-platform, refactor, or re-architect each application.
Dependency Management: Handle complex dependencies in applications relying on various backend services like databases and data protection.
Staffing Challenges: Equip your team with new skills necessary for cloud environments, adding to the existing complexity of managing multiple clouds.

With VMware's Partner and Cloud Service Provider programs evolving, Broadcom's termination of the VMware Cloud Service Provider Program by April 30, 2024, means the traditional lift and shift approach is less viable. This move requires a reevaluation of cloud methodologies for numerous VMware clients.

Planning a Successful Cloud Expansion

Ensure your cloud migration is successful with these steps:

Inventory and Analyze: Understand each application's compute, storage, and database requirements. This helps in selecting the right cloud services and avoiding over or under-provisioning.
Stakeholder Involvement: Engage developers and stakeholders early. Assess resource consumption to identify under or over-provisioned applications, impacting cloud costs.
Evaluate Cloud Providers: Assess different cloud providers for functionality and cost. Minimize vendor lock-in by avoiding services exclusive to one provider.

Choosing Your Migration Method

Tailor your approach for each application:

Rehost: Lift and shift applications with minimal changes.
Replatform: Relocate applications with minor alterations, such as changing the basic OS.
Refactor: Optimize applications to take full advantage of cloud capabilities.
Re-architect: Rewrite applications using cloud-native methods for better performance and scalability.
Retain: Keep some applications on-premises if it's more cost-effective.

Extend Your VMware Operations to the Cloud with Nutanix

Nutanix offers a smooth transition from VMware to cloud environments, enhancing flexibility and reducing complexities. Benefits include:

Seamless Migration: Effortlessly lift and shift VMware apps to Nutanix Cloud Clusters.
Enhanced Flexibility: Nutanix AHV hypervisor supports multi-cloud operations, allowing easy application movement.
User-Friendly Interface: Simplified management for VMware admins.
Automated Updates: Nutanix Lifecycle Manager automates updates, relieving IT teams of manual processes.
License Portability: Flexibility to move licenses between environments without additional costs.
Leverage Existing Cloud Credits: Use previously purchased cloud credits for Nutanix in AWS or Azure.

Conclusion

For VMware customers facing the complexities of cloud migration, Nutanix provides a robust, flexible solution to mitigate risks and ensure a successful transition to the cloud. Embrace the future with confidence, knowing that your cloud operations are optimized for agility and efficiency.

Ready to accelerate your cloud migration? Download the white paper now!