Figure 1. Tuesday’s August 22, 2023, Solution Keynote session where VMware SVP and GM Purnima Padmanabhan introduced the new Tanzu Transformer name.
Today, we are excited to share significant enhancements to VMware Tanzu Transformer (formerly VMware Aria Migration). We are expanding our multi-cloud capabilities, including adding additional support for AWS and introducing simplified workflows for AWS and VMware Cloud on AWS that will revolutionize the way you discover, classify, and plan migrating applications to the cloud. These enhancements will make planning migrations less fragmented and help you more easily present actual data to get approvals from the various lines of businesses required for successful application migration.
During Tuesday’s August 22, 2023, Solution Keynote session, Accelerate Application Delivery for Continuous Innovation, VMware SVP and GM Purnima Padmanabhan shared the four solutions within Tanzu Intelligence Services. The new VMware Tanzu Intelligence Services will include VMware Tanzu Transformation. The blog: Develop, Operate, and Optimize with VMware Tanzu: A VMware Explore Round-Up covers more details about the solutions included in Tanzu Intelligence Services, which “bring ML/AI capabilities for deeper insights and proactive optimization of cost, performance and governance.”
Figure 2. During preparations for the event, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan visited the demonstration booth for VMware Aria Operations for Networks and VMware Tanzu Transformer (VMware Aria Migration) and spoke with product manager Dattathreya Hassan, Technical Marketing Architect Matt Just, and others on the product team.
The VMware Tanzu portfolio has expanded, and there is a lot of focus on modern applications. There are more details in this week’s press release which includes VMware Tanzu Transformer.
“VMware Tanzu Transformer increases (the) success of app migration and modernization initiatives with support for migration assessment and planning to VMware Clouds and public clouds with planning workflows. APIs for 3rd-party integrations are being released in beta.”
Figure 3. VMware Tanzu Transformer is the new name.
Figure 4. Planning AI Generated Waves with cost and metrics for the target cloud
Users of Tanzu Transformer will find the solution as an add-on service within Tanzu Hub. Our new features include AWS support, providing a comprehensive network cost assessment for planning AWS and VMware Cloud on AWS. We’ve also simplified workflows for assessment, making it easier than ever to evaluate your infrastructure and plan your migration strategy using current Cloud Economics calculations. This capability can also look at bandwidth and egress cost analysis for that application migration strategy.
Figure 5. Assessment for AWS transformation goes beyond simple workload mapping by transforming workload recommendations to the optimal size in the cloud, resulting in improved performance, cost savings, and efficient resource utilization.
Figure 6. A detail of the recommendation count and projected costs and savings.
In the planning phase, we’re introducing a transformation assessment for vSphere to AWS, currently in Tech Preview. When customers initially think about migration to the cloud, the first thought is to do a 1 for 1 mapping. A 1-1 mapping is where a resource in the on-premises data center is mapped to the cloud with the same footprint. The transformative part of this feature looks and sizes the new footprint in the cloud location with the available modern cloud size and resources for that application to run the business better.
We’ve also streamlined the process of creating migration waves and introduced a new migration planning workflow, currently in Beta, to ensure a smooth transition to the cloud. To further optimize your migration process will allow for seamless third-party integrations, enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of your migration process.
Finally, we’re providing additional migration wave access to VMware Professional Services and Partners. This means if you need extra help, you’ll have the expert support you need, every step of the way, ensuring a successful migration.
Figure 7. Tanzu Transformer can fit into your existing workflow for application migration.
These new features discussed at VMware Explore 2023 result in faster business velocity, cost savings, better security, and improved performance when moving from the previous workload location to the future cloud location. With these enhancements, Tanzu Transformer is more powerful and flexible than ever, ready to support your journey to the cloud. All this extra information will help users collect the needed information to use with other VMWare tools, such as VMWare HCX, to execute the application migrations. We can’t wait for you to experience these new features and the transformative impact they can have on improving delivery for your business applications.
