Ongoing costs and renewal conditions
It is unclear whether the current configuration and contracts are appropriate or whether the same approach can continue after the next refresh.
Evaluate Whether to Retain or Migrate Each VMware Workload
We compare retaining your existing VMware environment, migrating to AWS or Microsoft Azure, updating operating systems and middleware, and replacing systems with cloud services. We determine an approach for each system and support design, migration, stabilization, and operations handover.
Current-state assessmentDocument configurations, performance, and dependencies
Compare optionsEvaluate costs, risks, and operability
Phased migrationPilot and wave planning
Operations handoverTransition to monitoring, change, and cost management
COMMON CHALLENGES
4 challenges to review when reassessing a VMware environment.
Decisions need to account for hardware refreshes, support deadlines, system dependencies, and post-migration operations, as well as costs.
Configurations and dependencies
Virtual machine owners, communications, shared infrastructure, backups, and business impacts are not documented.
Migration approaches by system
Some systems can migrate as they are, while others require upgrades, modifications, or preliminary investigation.
Post-migration operations
Responsibility for monitoring, backups, permissions, changes, security, and costs has not been defined.
MIGRATION OPTIONS
Choose an approach for each system.
After reviewing and removing unneeded virtual machines, we compare business requirements, technical constraints, costs, migration risks, and the post-migration operational workload.
Retain the current environment: Review migration risks and application constraints, and clarify conditions for continued use, refresh approaches, and maintainability.
Migrate to cloud VMs: Move standard operating systems and configurations to virtual machines on AWS or Azure.
Upgrade before migration: Update operating systems, middleware, and configurations approaching end of support to make them ready for migration.
Replace with cloud services: Replace databases and shared functions with managed services to reduce what needs to be managed.
SERVICE SCOPE
Support for strategy, design, migration, and operations, starting at the stage you need.
You can request assessment only, migration execution only, or post-migration operations only. We define the scope of support based on your current planning stage.
Current-state assessment and inventory
Review virtual machines, performance, operating systems, middleware, dependencies, licenses, and operations.
Strategy and comparison
Compare retention, rehosting, upgrades, and replacement in terms of cost, risk, and operability.
Target infrastructure design
Design networking, identity, permissions, logs, backups, availability, and security.
Migration design and execution
Plan downtime, procedures, testing, cutover, and rollback, then migrate in stages.
Business and performance validation
Verify key functions, inter-system communications, performance, monitoring, backups, and permissions.
Stabilization and operational handover
Transition to monitoring, incident handling, change management, backups, security, and cost management.
IMPLEMENTATION
Assess, pilot, and migrate in stages.
Identify dependencies and systems requiring modification early. Validate procedures on representative systems and migrate according to the Wave plan.
Assessment
Review configurations, performance, dependencies, contracts, and downtime conditions.
Approach and infrastructure design
Design an approach for each system and the shared target infrastructure.
Pilot
Validate migration, testing, and rollback procedures on representative systems.
Wave migration
Migrate in stages in an order based on business impact and dependencies.
Stabilization and operational handover
Resolve issues and hand over monitoring, changes, and backups.
Migration Considerations
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Downtime
Plan cutover windows based on business requirements
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Rollback
Prepare decision criteria and recovery procedures in advance
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Post-migration validation
Verify functions, performance, communications, monitoring, and backups
FAQ
Answers to common questions about cloud migration and modernization support.
We compare costs, technical conditions, and operational workloads to determine an approach for each system.
Yes. You can choose the support you need from current-state assessment, migration execution, and post-migration operations.
No. We validate through a pilot and migrate in stages according to priorities.
Yes. We plan downtime, decision criteria, and recovery procedures in advance.
Yes. We support monitoring, backups, changes, security, and cost management.
Start with an Assessment of Your VMware Environment.
Developing the Right Solution Together
We review your current configuration, refresh schedule, contracts, migration candidates, and business constraints to define what to retain, migrate, or investigate further.