Migration of VMWare to Nutanix Hybrid-Cloud with AWS Disaster Recovery

Overview Migration services to move customers from VMWare to Nutanix hybrid-cloud with AWS Disaster Recovery. Services consists of migration services for customers to move them from VMWare ESXi to Nutanix AHV and AWS for Disaster Recovery.

Important Notes

Nutanix Cluster: This service covers migration services consist of moving all VMs and associated data from VMWare vSphere environment to a new Nutanix AHV hybrid-cloud environment and enabling Disaster Recovery (DR) VMs with AWS.

Hypervisor: This service moves VMWare vSphere to Nutanix AHV hypervisor-based clusters (can include Prism Central optimization and NC2 to AWS for DR).

Additional Components: Replication, Encryption, and Switches are not included in this service. Additional service offerings exist to cover these items.

Supported Hardware Platforms: Nutanix NX, Cisco, Lenovo, and Dell. HPE is a higher cost due to complexity.

Service Overview

This is a fixed scope Service where we provide experienced FR Solutions personnel (certified in both Nutanix and VMWare plus Champion level partner for Nutanix Services in NA) to perform the following:

Project management

Scoping, design, configuration, implementation, migration, and verification of in-scope components

Provide completed Service Deliverables

Provide Functional Training to familiarize Clients staff with the solution or we can provide resource options to manage your environment for you.

During this Service, FR Solutions performs the following:

Planning

Provides pre-site checklist with video assistance to help with design requirements Plans and estimates schedules

SLA goals for DR in AWS plus assistance setting up an AWS account with Nutanix NC2 utilized to move data to DR in AWS (scoped separately)

Establishes project status meetings and communication cadence

Physical Installation (remote preferred but onsite possible with travel costs extra):

Remote installation or optional rack and stack Nutanix nodes in a customer-provided rack with additional items below:

Connects data network cables to customer-provided switches and out of band management cables to management network

Connect redundant power connections

Configures the out of band IP address on the nodes

Hypervisor Configuration:

Can install ESXi or AHV hypervisor software and Nutanix Controller VM as part of install services

Assists customer with setup of DR with AWS via Nutanix NC2 (scoped separately)

Customer to provide media and license keys

Applies any necessary Hypervisor patches and/or configuration updates to the Nutanix CVM

Configures standard or distributed vSwitches

Configures vSwitch VLAN port groups

Configures administrative parameters

DNS, NTP, Syslog, AD, and SNMP (RBAC configuration out of scope)

Nutanix Acropolis (AOS) Configuration:

Can creates Nutanix cluster as part of an install service

Deploys Prism Central instances as part of an install service

Validation:

Validates the installation by reviewing logs and confirming there are no displayed errors.

Executes Nutanix Cluster Check & Diagnostic Test

Verifies Nutanix alerts received by Client

Knowledge Transfer:

Conducts a basic Functional Overview of up to two (2) hours, to:

Familiarize the Client with the implemented solution

Demonstrate normal operations as installed

Review Nutanix support portal and as-built documentation

Service Deliverables

The following deliverables are provided with this Service:

High level Project Plan

As-Built Guide of the implementation

Migration checklist and migration services

Service Exclusions

FR Solutions will customize the Services based on your needs, the price shown is a daily price of which FRS can migrate up to a max of 75 VMs from VMWare ESXi to Nutanix AHV, setup of DR with AWS via Nutanix NC2 may require additional days of services. Additionally, we can provide multi-tenancy AWS MSP services to manage your AWS footprint with AWS Lighthouse, if requested at a separate cost.

Price shown is a daily cost based on the above. You can calculate the total estimated cost based on # of VMs to move / 75 = number of days x daily cost = estimated total cost.

Travel is not included in that cost estimate or AWS setup and move with Nutanix NC2 for DR. Please contact us for pricing.

Installation services of Nutanix hardware and software is also not included in the price but typically would be 2 days per 4 nodes and 1 cluster.

Please contact FR Solutions for a custom price.

All other services may be considered out of scope.

Assumptions

FR Solutions will rely on certain assumptions in the performance of this Service.

For onsite installation services additional travel costs may apply, remote will not incur these costs.

We are certain we will beat any pricing by others or Nutanix directly, call us for a quote.

Our services will beat Nutanix directly or any reseller by approx. 30-60% in savings.