What do you do about the virtualisation infrastructure that’s too complex and costly to maintain in its current form?

You need to know where the costs are heading, whether your platform has a future, how clear its roadmap is, and how long your environment will see support.

HPE Cloud Platform Services — Virtualisation Modernisation is one solution, an end-to-end service that answers those questions with you, and does it as a sequence rather than a leap.

Start by seeing what you run

You can’t plan a move without a clear picture of the estate you’re moving.

HPE runs a Virtualisation Modernisation Assessment: a financial, architectural and operational gap analysis, using HPE CloudPhysics. That maps what’s running and where the waste is as your groundwork.

Move on to your roadmap

HPE provides recommendations for best-fit landing zone services based on selection paths, i.e. what your organisation needs now.

A few examples:

  • Your environment uses a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) or open-source tech > HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software
  • Are you running Windows, and do you want to continue to use Azure? > Microsoft Azure Stack and HCI (hyper‑converged infrastructure)
  • Do you want to make minimal changes to your virtualisation solution? > Nutanix

HPE has global partnerships with ISVs, cloud providers, and migration software vendors, providing you with multiple solutions for virtualisation.

Migration steps

HPE handles your move to additional landing zones via rapid VM migration. Your workloads move across without long stretches of downtime, and where a workload is worth more re-platformed than moved as-is, HPE’s approach is to modernise it to a cloud-native alternative instead of lifting it over.

After you migrate, HPE offers managed services and unified cloud management via HPE Morpheus Enterprise and HPE OpsRamp. That delivers one management layer across your estate, bare metal, VMs, containers, private and public cloud.

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