Migrate VMware to Amazon EKS

The 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. 

The 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.