Need help standing up VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) or updating/expanding an existing environment? VMware Pro Cloud Services have you covered. My earlier blog provided an overview of our services and how they can help you implement VCF solutions. Now let’s look at each service in a bit more detail.
Modernize or Build a Private Cloud Infrastructure
Our Build a Private Cloud service helps you stand up a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment with security hardening to protect your compute, network, and storage components. We can also define a cloud operating model that provides the roles and processes to manage and operate your private cloud environment at scale.
For U. S. Federal agencies and organizations that must meet the rigors of sovereign cloud standards, we build a private cloud to meet your unique data privacy, security, and compliance requirements.
Modernize Your Private Cloud
Looking to expand your existing VCF environment or leverage additional capabilities? We can help you bridge the gap with our modernization service. We’ll analyze your current IT infrastructure and operational readiness, conducting a thorough gap analysis to identify areas for improvement. Based on our findings, we’ll create a tailored roadmap to address any deficiencies and provide modernization assistance, accelerating your journey to a fully optimized VCF environment.
Modernize Your Virtualized Storage
If you haven’t you taken advantage of the storage features and optimizations powered by VMware vSAN we have a modernize service focused on doing just that. Our team will analyze your existing storage environment, identifying areas where vSAN can simplify operations and address your specific challenges. We’ll work with you to create a customized storage policy strategy that optimizes performance, protection, and security for your workloads.
Leveraging the advanced features of vSAN and the comprehensive dashboards within VMware Cloud Foundation Operations, we’ll demonstrate how to maximize the efficiency and performance of your vSAN environment.
Automate to Deliver IaaS
Looking to provide easy access to IT services? Our Automate to Deliver IaaS can help you develop and implement CI/CD and configuration management solutions for VCF. From defining standard services to implementing a self-service portal to establishing ongoing processes and workflows, we help you implement and manage your solution.
Extend Your Data Center to the Cloud
Need to support unexpected projects or seasonal demand spikes? Our Extend Your Data Center to the Cloud service can help you extend your on-premises environment to the public cloud. We set up VCF in the public cloud and configure management of your hybrid infrastructure. We connect your two environments so you can move applications seamlessly between locations when increases in demand requires more capacity.
Upgrade
To keep your environment healthy and running smoothly, it’s important to get current and stay current. Upgrading to the latest version of VCF (or VMware vSphere) lets you take advantage of new features and security enhancements. We can help you prepare and upgrade your existing VCF environment including converging vSphere into VCF.
Implement a Private AI Foundation
Want to add a private AI foundation to your existing VCF environment? Doing so allows you to manage all workloads, including VMs, containers and AI technologies through a self-service, automated IT environment. Our service to Implement a Private AI Foundation assesses your existing VCF environment, identifies gaps and provides recommendations to get you to your AI-ready architecture. Then we deploy and configure the private AI foundation components and integrate with VCF.
Migrate Workloads
Whether you’ve just stood up a new VCF platform or looking to repatriate workloads from the public cloud, our service to Migrate Workloads can help. We move workloads from physical, virtual, or the public cloud to your VCF private cloud. We build a migration strategy based on your current environment and application dependencies that governs how and when we move your workloads. To determine application dependencies, we examine application patterns and identify which virtual machines communicate with each other. Once your environment is thoroughly understood, we group applications and move them in a series of migration waves.
Migrate Containers
If you’re looking to reduce environment complexity, save costs and improve your operational efficiency by running containers and workloads on one unified platform, our Migrate Containers service can help you get there. To migrate your containers to VCF, we start by discovering and analyzing your environment. We create an inventory of containerized applications and related services, microservices and dependencies. We confirm that the target platform supports the container runtimes and orchestrators that you’re using. We map out all dependencies and create a migration plan. We prepare your target VCF environment and perform the migrations in waves. We help you define services, roles and processes for managing your containers including developing compliance policies and standards for privacy and managing risk.
Implement Ransomware Protection and Recovery
Ransomware attacks are far too prevalent and are no longer a nice to have, but a must have for business continuity. We can help you define and implement a ransomware recovery strategy that enables protection and recovery of your business-critical workloads on VCF. We develop a recovery plan, design and configure the solution at the isolated recovery environment. Replication timing and snapshot frequency is configured to match your RPOs and RTOs based on threat scan frequency. We validate the guided recovery workflow we verify that all protected VMs are isolated and remediate if necessary until the workflow is reliable.
Implement Disaster Recovery
To speed recovery when disaster strikes, we help you create and implement a disaster recovery strategy for data resiliency. We develop an approach based on your business goals and constraints. After identifying RPOs and RTOs as well as time, cost and application requirements, we define a high-level DR plan.
We discover and analyze the environment to be protected, capturing information on virtual workloads, applications, and virtual infrastructure. We evaluate packet flow between workloads to determine dependencies within and between applications, define protection groups, and establish restart priorities. We configure replication timing and snapshot frequency to match your required RPO and RTO. From there, we create one or more detailed recovery plans including scope, recovery steps, and sequencing. We design and configure the solution at your recovery site, and test and validate failover. We also provide best practices and standard operating procedures to help you effectively manage your recovery solution.
Integration with your existing ecosystem
VMware Pro Cloud Services include operational assistance for integrating VMware Cloud Foundation with your existing processes and third-party solutions. We help you define a new cloud operating model and share our knowledge with your team so they can manage the environment after we’ve gone.
To learn how VMware Pro Cloud Services can help your organization contact your Broadcom Account Director.
