With the Azure VMware Solution (AVS), customers can seamlessly move their VMware-based workloads from its datacenter to Azure and integrate the VMware environment with Azure.
HCLTech AVS 2.0 Solution Capabilities include
- HCL AVS solution helps client increase productivity with elasticity, scale, and fast provisioning cycles.
- Our Solution allows to create vSphere VMs in the Azure portal via API calls or CLI, automate deployments.
- Helps enhance workloads with full range of Azure compute, monitor, backup, database, IoT & AI services.
- Helps client manage its existing environments with the familiar VMware tools, while allowing to modernize its applications with Azure native services.
- 150+ AVS functionality and use cases validated and tested by HCL
HCLTech's AVS Migration Journey is spread across 6 phases viz Strategy, Plan, Ready, Adopt, Govern and Manage as defined in Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework(CAF).
This assessment adopts the best practices defined under the "Strategy" & "Plan" phases of CAF.
"Strategy" Phase
- Understand motivations - reasons for AVS adoption strategy.
- Identify desired business outcomes - Establish clear AVS solution business outcomes. Use CAF templates to align stakeholders and decision makers on deciding which outcomes to prioritize.
3 Define business justifications - project the business impact of cloud adoption strategy.
"Plan" Phase
- Take inventory of clients digital estate - Catalog all workloads, applications, data sources, virtual machines, and other IT assets for migration to Azure cloud using AVS Solution.
- Create Migration Plan by prioritizing workloads based on business impact & technical complexity.
- Document the findings showcasing the long term transformational business benefits.
HCLTech AVS Assessment Deliverables:
- Azure VMware Solution Readiness
- Target Deployment Model
- Migration Complexity Assessment
- High Level Migration Plan
- Design & Implementation Effort Estimates