Introduction

Migrating VMware workloads to Google Cloud is a strategic move for enterprises looking to modernize their infrastructure, reduce operational overhead, and accelerate innovation.

In an era driven by AI, enterprises can no longer afford to run workloads without the scalability, automation, and flexibility that modern infrastructure demands. Legacy environments restrict agility and slow innovation, making a move to an AI-ready cloud ecosystem not just strategic, but essential.

What are Enterprises looking to migrate out of VMware?

Rising licensing costs and uncertainty following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware are triggering migration discussions across industries. But beyond these catalysts, the deeper drivers are clear: limitations in automation and scalability, outdated compute platforms, and barriers to executing strategic digital initiatives.

Migration Challenges and Risks

Many transformation programs stall before they start held back by concerns around ROI, potential business disruption, upskilling requirements, and the complexity of change management. There’s a significant gap between the intent to migrate, the design of a risk-mitigated migration strategy, and the actual execution of workload migration. Each phase demands distinct planning, resources, and commitment.

Large scale VMware migrations often require dedicated time with multiple teams like Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Storage, Operations dedicating their time and efforts into the program.

Overcoming the Challenges and Mitigating the Risks with Google Cloud and Quantiphi

Google Cloud VMware Engine is unique in offering price stability, compute mobility, and license portability to meet customers where they are in their current VMware journey. By migrating VMware instances to the cloud with VMware Engine, businesses can realize the immediate benefits of cloud technologies and reduce costs.

Customers can directly Lift & Shift their workloads to Google Cloud VMware Engine. The solution also simplifies the use of VMware services and tools with unified identities, management, support, and monitoring, along with the option to retain IP addresses.

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With Quantiphi’s experience in large scale transformation programs, we strongly believe that the migration success is defined by the pre and post migration phases. Understanding the application to infrastructure mapping, networking setup, application interdependencies, data migration techniques and downtime requirements becomes extremely important to analyze before arriving at a migration strategy. The phased migration approach focuses on helping clients migrate and realize value faster, while derisking the entire migration.

Accelerating VMware to GCVE Migration with Quantiphi’s GenAI acceleration Suite “Codeaira”

For a large VMware migration, let’s say 50,000 VMs, the majority of time will be spent on discovering the AS-IS state, meeting various Client stakeholders, designing the TO BE state, building a Secure Landing Zone and creating migration waves by manually creating dependency mapping. While migrating through native tools like HCX, VCDA will be quick, time spent in pre-migration activities delays the overall value realization and risks Client’s timeline to exit their DC.

Quantiphi’s Codeaira, a GenAI-powered suite, streamlines and accelerates each migration phase by over 40%, minimizing risk, downtime, and complexity.

Codeaira generates risk and mitigation strategies at each stage of the migration, creates application to server and application to application dependency graph, application criticality, terraform codebase, firewall rules and migration wave plan basis the application criticality. The entire setup is integrated with Delivery Navigator ensuring adherence to Google best practices.

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Want to transform your VMware environment?

Reimagine what your VMware migration could look like. With Quantiphi’s deep expertise and Codeaira’s GenAI powered migration, you can reduce risk, accelerate migration timeline, and unlock the full potential of Google Cloud VMware Engine. Let’s talk—our experts are ready to help you plan a smarter migration path.

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