Need help standing up VMware Cloud Foundation or updating/expanding an existing environment? VMware Pro Cloud Services have you covered. My earlier blog provided an overview of them and how they can help you with common use cases. Now let’s look at each use case in a bit more detail.
Modernize or Build a Private Cloud Infrastructure
Modernize or Build a Private Cloud Infrastructure 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.
If you already have some VCF components in your environment but are not using the full stack, or want to deploy additional capabilities in your existing environment, we can help with that too. We create a roadmap to close the gaps in your current environment and provide modernization assistance to help get you to your target state faster.
For U.S. Federal agencies we can build a private cloud to meet your unique data privacy, security, and compliance requirements. We can implement the application and appliance Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) Readiness Guidelines across the full stack, working closely with your team. Obtaining approval from the Authorization to Operate (ATO) process can be complex and time consuming. By leveraging our expertise in security requirements and regulations, conducting thorough assessments, and quickly addressing any gaps or issues, we can support your attaining ATO.
Automate to Provide IaaS via a Self-Service Catalog
Automate to Provide IaaS via a Self-Service Catalog helps you provide fast and easy access to IT services for your IT teams and developers. We assess your service catalog requirements and help you define a list of standard services to be published. We can create the cloud templates and determine service costs. We integrate VMware Aria Automation with your core IT services to instantiate your service catalog. We streamline service delivery processes and optimize the value stream for efficient provisioning. We integrate, orchestrate, and automate fulfillment activities, and define the business logic, approval routing, and policy-based workflows to implement service design blueprints. We also provide best practices and standard operating procedures to help you effectively manage and maintain your service catalog.
Extend Your Data Center Into the Cloud
Extend Your Data Center Into the Cloud is ideal if you are looking to support unexpected projects or seasonal demand spikes. We help you extend your on-premises environment to the public cloud. We set up your software defined data center (SDDC) in the public cloud and configure management of your hybrid infrastructure. We connect your on-premises environment to your public cloud SDDC so you can move applications seamlessly between locations when increases in demand requires more capacity.
Implement a VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA
Implement a VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA is built on your existing VMware Cloud Foundation environment for managing all workloads, including VMs, containers and AI technologies through a self-service, automated IT environment. To stand up the private AI foundation, we start by assessing your existing VMware Cloud Foundation environment. We identify gaps that need to be addressed and provide recommendations to get you to your AI-ready architecture. Then we deploy and configure the private AI foundation components and integrate with your VMware Cloud Foundation environment. We deploy and prepare a scalable AI framework and data services. Next the NVIDIA Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Deep Learning VM (DLVM) is deployed and validated. We define and prepare a private AI sharing model. We customize the deep learning VMs or private AI clusters to be ready to accept your organization’s chosen models, datasets, and training sets so you can take advantage of a broad choice of AI apps and services. We provide operational assistance for incorporating the DLVM and data services into your existing processes.
Migrate and Run Business Critical Workloads in Production
Migrate and Run Business Critical Workloads in Production helps you move workloads from physical, virtual, or the public cloud to your VMware Cloud Foundation private cloud. We build a 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. Additional considerations include:
- Network infrastructure which includes evaluating infrastructure services, firewall rules, and virtual switches
- Thick or thin provisioned storage
- IO-intensive applications
- Virtual machine metadata and configurations
- VM snapshots and backup policies
Once your environment is thoroughly understood, we group applications into a series of migration waves, which are validated before transitioning to subsequent waves.
Implement Disaster Recovery
Implement Disaster Recovery helps you create and implement a strategy for data resiliency leveraging VMware Live Recovery. 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
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 Pro Cloud Services can help your organization contact your VMware Sales Representative.
