Moving to the cloud has never been easier with CDW's VMware Cloud on AWS solution. CDWs Architects have years of experience assisting organizations with on-prem and cloud infrastructures. Our team understands the demands of moving away from traditional on-prem environments into the cloud and how that effects organizations. VMware Cloud on AWS allows organizations to extend into AWS, migrate and manage their new cloud-based environment with familiar VMware tools, architecture, and experience. CDW’s VMware Cloud on AWS offerings have been designed to our assist customers wherever they are on their journey while building the roadmap for the future of your business. Paths to Success:

• VMware Cloud on AWS Accelerator – Test your environment, ensure compatibility, and ease the tension of running your business on VMC. Build out your infrastructure for a proof-of-concept (POC) or pilot Hybrid VMware Cloud environment. This will allow your organization to prove the technology and ensure it meets your functional business requirements prior to fully migrating or deploying production workloads.
• VMware Cloud on AWS Technical Readiness Workshop – Meet with the CDW Cloud Architect team to review your organization’s needs, requirements and business drivers for your move to VMware Cloud on AWS. Start by analyzing the on-prem environment and create and implementation plan to prepare.
• VMware Cloud on AWS Enterprise – Once the POC is complete and the benefits of VMC are proven, you can deploy a production-grade VMC Infrastructure utilizing a VMware-based Software-defined Data Center to support your organization’s data center expansion or migration of on-premises workloads.
• VMware Cloud on AWS Migration – CDW will facilitate the migration of existing on-premises VMware-based workloads and builds on existing foundations to accelerate the movement of workloads into a VMware Cloud on AWS.
• VMware Cloud on AWS Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery – Utilize VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery as part of our overall business resiliency plans for reasons including, but not limited to, business continuity, compliance with industry regulations, protection against disasters, ransomware, and security breaches.

Project Management and Oversight. The ultimate value of stakeholder and leadership alignment is to secure engagement of key business stakeholders to support and drive a successful cloud adoption program. It builds understanding and commitment to the initiatives and enables understanding of the business objectives, delivery plan, and impacts.

• Kickoff meetings/pre-launch workshops
• Project management of all workstreams
• Standup meetings and status updates
• Deliverable tracking
• Escalation point

High-level Overview. The VMC High-level Overview workstream consists of a series of accelerated workshops to review the business initiatives and component technologies that make up the VMware Cloud on AWS solution.

• Customer Business Initiative Discussion
• Overview of VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC)

1. VMC available subscriptions
2. Overview of VMC compute, network, storage, and integration
3. Customer use case for VMC
4. Virtual machine migration options
5. VMC Connectivity Planning and Overview
6. Native Cloud connectivity

• Overview of AWS Native Cloud Solution and Services

1. AWS Well Architected Pillars
2. Landing Zones and Connected VPCs
3. AWS Native Services
4. AWS Shared Services Account
5. AWS Networking Account

VMware Cloud on AWS Technical Readiness. The VMC Technical Readiness Workshop workstream is designed to work with internal teams to gain a deep understanding of Customer’s on-prem infrastructure components and how they translate to VMC.

• VMC on AWS Onboarding and Prerequisites Discussion
• VMC on AWS Cloud Readiness Workshop Interviews
• Review On-premises Network / Firewall Infrastructure
• Review Internet and Cloud Connectivity

1. Layer 2 Extended Networks and Requirements
2. Direct Connect
3. SSL VPN

• On-premises vSphere Environment Assessment
• Discovery and Review of Existing AWS Environment
• Migration Assessment with VM

To continue your cloud journey with confidence, reach out to CDW today. We Get AWS Cloud!