VMWare Migration and Modernization on AWS

Approach:

In an era where cloud innovation is rapidly accelerating, businesses have a prime opportunity to transition beyond traditional VMWare environments and fully embrace advanced capabilities offered by AWS-native services. Adastra is uniquely positioned to guide customers through this modernization journey, helping them unlock the full potential of AWS’s cloud infrastructure.

Adastra begins with a detailed assessment of your current VMware workload and identifying dependencies, performance requirements, and business-critical applications. This comprehensive evaluation allows us to design a tailored migration and modernization strategy, ensuring a seamless shift to AWS.

Throughout the migration, Adastra focuses on cost optimization and governance, employing tools such as AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Trusted Advisor. These tools are instrumental in monitoring AWS recourse usage and identifying opportunities for cost reduction, ensuring clients achieve maximum efficiency and value from their AWS investment.

A key step in the migration includes removing VMware tools post-migration. As part of the migration process, Adastra will implement custom scripts to remove any proprietary VMware tools from your migrated virtual machines. This step is crucial for optimizing performance in the AWS environment and facilitates a complete integration into the AWS ecosystem.

Activities:

Adastra goes beyond mere lifting and shifting VMware workloads, assisting businesses in re-platforming and refactoring their applications to harness the full spectrum of AWS’s cloud-native services. Discover the pathways for migration and modernization with AWS:

• Rehost VMs to Amazon EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute): Migrate your applications to the AWS Cloud without making changes using AWS Application Migration Service and guided journeys with AWS Migration Hub.
• Relocate containers to Amazon ECS or EKS: Move from self-managed VMware containers to AWS-managed services such as Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) or EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).
• Re-platform to Amazon ECS or EKS: Deploy and scale VMware-hosted applications rapidly with Amazon ECS or EKS, ensuring consistent, reliable, and isolated processes.
• Re-platform to AWS Managed Services: Modernize applications by transitioning to AWS managed services such as Amazon RDS or OpenSearch.
• Refactor to serverless: Re-architect applications for enhanced agility, performance, and scalability using AWS serverless services.

Transitioning from traditional virtual machines to cloud-native architectures enables businesses to enhance agility, lower expenses, and future-proof their applications.

Deliverables:

• TCO analysis
• Cloud readiness assessment
• Detailed migration plan
• Landing zone (secure and scalable AWS setup)
• Application prioritization analysis
• Infrastructure migration
• Detailed runbook

Outcomes:

• Increased scalability
• Improved performance
• Unmatched reliability
• Innovation
• Increased agility
• Future-proof IT infrastructure
• Efficient, cost-effective transition
• Enhanced agility and simplified operations
• Scalable, innovative solutions with AWS modernization