Many organizations are experiencing deviation in their virtualization environment and are being confronted with outdated solutions and rising related expenses. Red Hat® Virtualization Migration Assessment is an experience-driven framework that helps IT teams understand, plan, and create a strategic path for their organization’s virtual machine (VM) infrastructure migrations. Red Hat Consulting uses this engagement to provide organizations with a clear roadmap and timeline for migrating VMs away from their traditional virtualization provider.
Experienced Red Hat architects run a short series of 2-hour, on-site workshops with your organization’s teams (networking, platform, and security) to assess the current environment, gather requirements, and review the goals for a desired future state. Red Hat experts will work to understand and analyze the infrastructure and workload complexities to build a migration plan of high confidence.
Virtualization Migration Assessment
The consulting experts at Red Hat will assess your organization’s business drivers, current state, and the path to future state in a series of interactive discovery and design workshops. This assessment forms the basis for a high-level solution roadmap to production and a customized migration journey and proposal. Working together, IT team leaders and Red Hat experts will build a path that can include the following activities.
Activity | Outcomes |
Perform discovery workshops with relevant stakeholders to understand where you are going | - Analyze existing investments and infrastructure and gather requirements for a future target platform.
- Identify virtualization use cases in preparation for the pilot.
- Understand Day 2 operations including, but not limited to, automation and configuration management, disaster recovery, and monitoring.
- Identify ways to improve current workflows, skills, and organizational processes.
- Understand security and compliance requirements.
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Identify VM workloads | Define integrations such as storage, networking, and clustering requirements. |
Co-create | Work with Red Hat to receive a high-level solution roadmap to migrate VMs safely and in less time. |
Propose a high-level solution roadmap | Customize the next step in virtualization migration, including targeting an existing virtualization platform and scaled migration approach and tooling. |
Generate a strategy to manage timing and pricing | Take advantage of the full documentation of workshop findings, including the current technology environment, people, and process necessary for next steps to work effectively. |
The final output is a high-level solution roadmap presenting effective options for meeting organizational requirements, the initial scope and priorities for the pilot, and an approach for a migration factory and optional modernization effort to reach predefined outcomes.
