VMware to AWS Assessment and Migration

Broadcom's 2023 acquisition of VMware has led to significant changes: shifting vSphere to subscription-based licensing, discontinuing the free vSphere version, and selling the end-user compute division to KKR. These shifts result in declining support quality, increased security risks, and substantial cost hikes (3–11x for VCF licenses). If you're feeling uncertain about these changes, you're not alone. Many VMware customers—about 73%, according to a Gartner poll—are exploring other options. With 95% of new digital workloads expected to run on cloud-native platforms by 2025, now might be the right time to consider future-proofing your operations. Sonata, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Tier Partner, can seamlessly transition your infrastructure from VMware to AWS, ensuring stability, consistency, and significant cost reductions.

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Overview

Sonata’s Migrations & Modernization Options for VMware Workloads

Rehost VMs to Amazon EC2 “Lift and shift” migration to AWS, requiring some underlying infrastructure changes to get the benefits of the cloud.
Replatform Workloads to Containers Shifting from VMware workloads to AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) or Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) enables containerization, which can improve application portability, scalability, and developer productivity.
Replatform Workloads to Managed Services Some underlying infrastructure changes are required to move applications to managed services, such as on-premises databases being moved to managed databases.
Refactor Workloads to Native Services Full modernization – applications are fully rewritten, decoupled, or modified to be executed on cloud-native components such as serverless technology.

Sonata offers three pathways to migrate from VMware to AWS:

• Migrate & Modernize to AWS Native Services: Accelerates migrations while reducing complexity. Fully funded and validated by AWS, integrates seamlessly with AWS Migration Hub, and is available through AWS Marketplace.

• Nutanix (NC2) on AWS: Enables seamless migration with optimized tools, cost and licensing benefits, streamlined procurement, and alignment with the AWS technical and GTM teams.

• Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA): Fully integrates with AWS cloud infrastructure, offering a managed application platform supported by Red Hat, a turnkey solution for Day 2 operations, and unified billing for both Red Hat and AWS services.

We leverage AWS migration tools like AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), DMS, andMigration Hub, as well as AWS-funded ISV solutions such as RiverMeadow, Concierto, MatildaCloud, MontyCloud, and CloudHedge to streamline your migration journey.

Assessment In a Box: Vmware Migration to AWS A comprehensive assessment of your on-premises VMware environment to help you plan and estimate the costs associated with migrating your workloads to AWS. It includes tools and processes to: Analyze your current VMware infrastructure (VMs, storage,networking). Identify workloads suitable for migration to AWS. Estimate migration costs and resource requirements on AWS. Generate a migration plan with timelines and steps.

Pilot Migration in a Box: VMware Migration to AWS This solution builds upon the assessment and helps you validate your migration plan through a pilot project. It involves: Migrating a select set of VMs from VMware to AWS. Testing the migrated VMs in the AWS environment. Verifying performance, security, and functionality. Providing insights and adjustments for the full-scale migration.

Highlights

Reduced costs: Minimize cost of migrations by 20-30% through AWS best practices, tools, and promotional credits along with Sonata’s proven approach & frameworks.
Faster time-to-market: Avoid refactoring and minimize downtime by rehosting VMware Cloud on AWS workloads, achieving migrations 20-40% faster with Sonata’s tools and accelerators.
Enhanced availability: Migrate VMware vSphere workloads to AWS and instantly benefit from its scalability, availability, and global reach.

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