When considering migrating workloads that are currently on VMware virtual servers, it’s very important that you make the decision with the right data.
To do this, it is necessary to carry out a detailed analysis that not only covers a sizing of the infrastructure, but also considers the following aspects:
In VMware infrastructures, everything is managed based on nodes with a certain storage capacity, with a complex structure that does not align with current business needs, for example:
In addition, you pay for Windows licensing for each virtual machine that is provisioned. In the cloud, that structure changes, since when you move it to native, they are AWS instances with total freedom. In this sense, it is possible to have schemes that experience the advantages mentioned above, going further with models that register greater efficiency than:
Derived from the importance of having an architecture of excellence in innovation, cost and efficiency, the AWS cloud has the Migration Acceleration Program, which includes a series of stages that allow you to design a successful migration strategy by reviewing every detail.
It is part of the assessment that integrates the first stage and consists of knowing how some servers relate to each other. That is, an application can exist on one or more servers and, additionally, an application can be connected to others, to one or more databases and, in turn, it is possible that that application is used by one or more processes.
It is important to identify how they relate to each other, because when migrating we must be clear about it to define priorities and establish a path to the cloud that is feasible and scalable.
To do this, it is possible to have third-party tools such as Cloudamize, a tool that is installed in the current environment and that allows not only to analyze dependencies, but also to identify them.
In the same way, it makes it possible to discover another important point: when we have an on-premise infrastructure, as it is not scalable, we have servers with a certain CPU and RAM capacity that is not necessarily what our applications use. It may be that it is exceeded and, for example, it only reaches the limit at certain peaks in demand. Cloudamize also provides recommendations for the right size and type of instances, taking advantage of the scalability of the cloud.
With consulting services that are carried out in this assessment, third-party tools that we use for access to applications, security and monitoring are also visualized, because these must also be migrated to the cloud.
In the assessment stage, Cloud Economics schemes are also delivered, in which the costs of the cloud are correctly analyzed with a projection to 3 or 5 years with all the impact of maintaining an on-premise IT infrastructure compared to the current one.
Solutions are also made to prepare the team in the knowledge, accompaniment and preparation of the work teams. The objective is for them to get to know the core services of the cloud and also at the business level. This is how they will learn about a new way to determine and control the IT resource budget.
In addition to other stages within the program, such as Mobilize and Migrate, it is relevant to point out that AWS has, as part of the same program, economic incentives for the change from VMware to EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), which allow funding professional services for the migration and consumption of the production environment. All this makes the migration process easier and more achievable.
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As part of its expertise in executing successful migrations, Itera is validated by Amazon Web Services (AWS). This level of partnership and competencies allows us to provide our customers with incentives, making a successful cloud migration strategy possible.
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