Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware and its subsequent licensing and product offering changes has resulted in enormous price increase and a lot of uncertainty for customers. Many VMware customers are now assessing alternative platforms for their workloads.
IBM® Power® is an attractive alternative platform for VMware customers because of its enterprise focus, native hypervisor capabilities, modernization technologies and presence of larger customer base for Oracle and SAP workloads. Clients can seamlessly migrate enterprise workloads on VMware to IBM PowerVM® and realize cost, reduced licensing, improved performance and scalability benefits. However, they may be worried about having the time, skills and resources to handle a migration and they may need support from an ISV during re-platform and post-migration exercises.
Clients can feel comfortable with migrating to Power with the expertise of IBM Technology Expert Labs available to them. Technology Expert Labs has a “Migrate VMware-based Workloads to IBM PowerVM” offering ready for clients interested in migration. Expert Labs brings deep expertise in AIX®, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux on Power, Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power along with migration expertise with Oracle applications, databases and SAP HANA onto IBM Power.
Technology Expert Labs also has real-world experience with successful migrations. For example:
- A European government IT service provider wanted to migrate 700 databases from Oracle Exadata (x86) to IBM Power to address stability, performance and cost concerns. Technology Expert Labs successfully migrated databases to IBM Power/AIX using Ansible framework, covering up to 20 migrations per week and helping with repeatable and efficient migration.
- A global cement manufacturer based out of APAC opted to migrate its SAP HANA to IBM Power E1080 for scalability concerns with its x86 setup. Technology Expert Labs successfully migrated SAP HANA to IBM Power and configured first-of-its-kind HANA on Power in a hybrid setup that co-exists with x86 for ROI on its investments.
- One of the major Indian investment and financial services holding company wanted to migrate its critical Oracle E-business application from Exadata (x86) due to need for agile and scalable infrastructure. Technology Expert Labs successfully migrated its critical EBS application with minimal downtime.
Benefits of leveraging IBM Technology Expert Labs include:
- Confident migration of enterprise workloads to IBM Power.
- The industry-leading performance, security and resiliency of IBM Power.
- End-to-end skills involving both infrastructure and middleware.
- Accelerated and seamless workload migration.
- Implementation based on best practices established over many client migrations.
- Tooling and automation for faster deployment with consistency.
- Expansive team of worldwide IBM Power SMEs.
If you are currently using VMware in your enterprise, now is the time to consider running your mission-critical workloads on IBM Power. You can get peace of mind with industry-leading infrastructure, expertise with migration, and clear day 2 operations. To learn more, email Technology Expert Labs at systems-expert-labs@ibm.com.