Selecting an Appropriate Server Migration Mechanism

So far in this chapter, we have covered migration tools and services for both databases and data workloads. In this section of the chapter, we shall have a quick look at some of the services and tools provided for conducting server migrations to the AWS cloud.

VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC on AWS) is a jointly engineered solution provided by both AWS and VMware. It is specifically designed to accelerate migrations from an on-premises VMware-backed data center to the AWS cloud. Each VMC on AWS offering provides a single-tenant managed infrastructure running on i3 or i3en.metal instances, backed by VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and vCenter Server. This form of migration service falls under the Relocate strategy, where VMs or servers are simply relocated from one location to the cloud using the hypervisor as the underlying medium for migration. However, apart from the accelerated migration use case, organizations also...