Available now: The Validated Solutions Engineering team is excited to announce the general availability of our newest solution Cross Cloud Mobility for VMware Cloud Foundation.
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What is Cross Cloud Mobility for VMware Cloud Foundation?
As businesses need to consolidate datacentres, extend datacentres to the cloud, or replace on-premises infrastructure, they must consider application migration challenges from infrastructure incompatibilities and network complexity to moving workloads without disrupting application dependencies.
Some common workload migration challenges include:
• Mission-critical apps require migration without downtime.
• The identification of applications and dependencies can be difficult.
• Migrated apps can suffer from performance degradation.
• WAN (Wide Area Network) and LAN traffic impacts require a maintenance window with reduced usage of infrastructure.
• Migration windows can span multiple months due to size, distance, and network latency/loss.
• A new IP (Internet Protocol) platform needs to be re-architected for smooth switchovers, which requires purchasing additional hardware or software.
• Application rollback can be complex.
Cross Cloud Mobility for VMware Cloud Foundation is a well-architected validated solution that seeks to solve these challenges by providing detailed design, implementation, configuration, and operation guidance on establishing business workload mobility and migrating the workloads between a VMware Cloud Foundation instance and a VMware Cloud on AWS (Amazon Web Services) SDDC (Software Defined Data Center) using the VMware HCX service.
Solution Overview
Cross Cloud Mobility for VMware Cloud Foundation is built around VMware best design practices and design principles as well as the implementation steps for VMware HCX and VMware Cloud on AWS and the integration of the two within VMware Cloud Foundation. This solution details the design decisions from how and where to deploy the HCX Connector to considerations about the various components within the HCX service, and how it gets integrated into the components within the VMware Cloud Foundation environment. This provides a repeatable process that can be adapted into any VMware Cloud Foundation environment.
As is laid out in the logical design below, the VMware Cloud Service, is where VMware Cloud on AWS and VMware HCX both reside. From the VMware HCX cloud service, we download and install a VMware HCX Connector in the VMware Cloud Foundation instance. This allows the VMware Cloud Foundation site to create a site pairing with the VMware HCX cloud service. From there we create a service mesh between the two sites, which allows each site to understand the infrastructure at the other site and creates the backbone of where we can migrate business workloads to and from VMware Cloud on AWS.
Ready to Start with Cross Cloud Mobility for VMware Cloud Foundation?
The Cross Cloud Mobility VMware Validated Solution is available now and you can access it by viewing its resource page here: Cross Cloud Mobility for VMware Cloud Foundation.
In Summary
Cross Cloud Mobility is an enterprise-ready solution to be deployed on top of VMware Cloud Foundation and helps to provide VMware Cloud Foundation customers with a quick and efficient way to migrate business workloads between their on-premises environment and the VMware Cloud on AWS, using the VMware HCX Service.
