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Migrate VMware to Amazon EKS

Solution for Migration and Upgrade

KAOPS migrates VMware-based workloads to AWS

VMware Migration Challenges

Companies have been migrating VMWare to AWS for over a decade and have learned from their mistakes. 


The first migrations were described as “Lift and Shift”, where VMware VMs were relocated from a private datacenter to AWS, typically as an EC2 elastic compute VM.  However, many were disappointed with this approach as it didn’t change or improve operations, and actually costs more over time because of the recurring cloud consumption model. 


Recent events have re-ignited the efforts to migrate VMware to AWS, and customers are looking to do more than just relocate to EC2; they also want to modernize by running containers in Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), and improve operations and cost at the same time. 


Historically, reaping all these benefits required hiring a lot of software developers to re-write (refactor) application code. 


VMware Migration Opportunity

Recent cloud-native open source innovation allows VMware (or any other virtualization) migration to Amazon EKS modern container infrastructure without hiring and re-writing code. This allows your IT to standardize on Kubernetes ‘virtual data center’ approach, which improves your operations, resilience and scale.  While these apps remain unchanged, you can refactor them at your convenience, over time.


With KAOPS' cloud-native migration approach, you can:


  • Reduce or eliminate VMWare license costs

  • Reduce datacenter footprint

  • Migrate workloads to Amazon EKS

  • Improve VM resilience/reliability with AWS/Amazon EKS

  • Control cloud spend by autoscaling EKS


 

Explore how Nethopper KAOPS can help you.

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Migration Details


With KAOPS, auto-scaling is possible because EKS is aware of all the resources (computers, storage, network) in use and can scale them up and down based on VM need and performance. 


This allows you to eliminate waste in the cloud, pay for only what you need, and reduce cloud costs. 


The migration is quick, because you don’t need to change the application code in all your apps at once. 


You can then focus on refactoring your most business critical apps, first. 


Then, refactor your older apps at your convenience, meanwhile enjoying the reduced cost and improved operations in EKS.


Solution requirements:


To enable simultaneous VMware migration to AWS and modernization to EKS Kubernetes requires the following:


  • EKS Kubernetes environment

  • EKS Kubernetes operations excellence (like a cloud-native management platform).

  • VM to container migration tool (like open source KubeVirt)

  • VM analysis of database requirements

  • VM analysis of network requirements

  • Migration automation pocess


KAOPS enables you to:


  • Reduce or eliminate VMware license costs

  • Reduce datacenter footprint

  • Migrate workloads to AWS as containers

  • Improve VM resilience/reliability with Amazon EKS

  • Control cloud spend by autoscaling/bursting on Amazon EKS


 

How KAOPS does it


Nethopper KAOPS is a cloud-native management platform (CMP) that works with any cloud or kubernetes, private or public. 


KAOPS:


  • Uses GitOps blueprints to simplify AWS/EKS operations and deploy container workloads and cloud native tools. 

  • Has a blueprint for configuring and installing KubeVirt in EKS, with the push of a few buttons, integrated into one dashboard. 

  • Can point to any existing VM (VMware including) and run, or migrate, that VM to Amazon EKS. Once migrated, you can cancel your VMware license subscription and power down the old environment. 

  • Has also integrated many other open source tools to secure, upgrade, alert, and monitor your EKS clusters and workloads.

 

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