The best options for your IT infrastructure solutions
3 minute read
Kelsey Smith
October 22nd, 2024
The VMware licensing changes have left many organisations reviewing their IT infrastructure solutions and the options available to them. This shift provides organisations with an opportunity to review their IT landscape, taking into consideration the alternatives and weighing them up against their current solution.
When changing up your IT infrastructure solutions, there are four primary routes to consider:
- Build on all the benefits of VMware by Broadcom and its Cloud Foundation Platform (VCF)
- Optimise your IT infrastructure with VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF)
- Look at vendor alternatives
- Migrate to the cloud
One: Build on all the benefits of VMware by Broadcom and its Cloud Foundation Platform (VCF)
VMware vSphere remains a leading virtualisation platform, powering millions of workloads across private and public clouds. From compute virtualisation to storage and networking virtualisation, VMware’s extensive feature set and established market presence ensure that for many customers this remains the right choice for them.
vSphere provides proven stability, seamless VMware integration, and high performance for diverse workloads. Now integrated into VCF, this platform provides a full-stack, private, or hybrid cloud solution that supports organisations to drive higher degrees of efficiency and flexibility at the lowest cost. This includes integrating key data centre technologies deeply embedded in the platform to lower operational costs, drive higher degrees of efficiency, and flexibility. VCF’s platform architecture and cloud operating model allows users to extend private cloud infrastructures into supported public and partner cloud environments, utilising workload mobility for maximum efficiency and scale.
Two: Optimise your IT infrastructure with VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF)
VMware vSphere Foundation is the enterprise workload engine built to optimise the IT infrastructure for organisations of all sizes by improving operational efficiency, workload performance, and security. It delivers intelligent operations management, purpose-built to enable the best performance, availability, and efficiency from your infrastructure, while providing comprehensive visibility and analytics in one place.
Boost operational efficiency with intelligent operations management and advanced analytics, vSphere Foundation will help you maximise capacity utilisation and free up your IT Team to focus on more important work.
Three: Vendor alternatives
Microsoft Hyper-V
Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualisation platform that provides powerful hypervisor capabilities, integrated into Windows Server. It is a viable option for organisations already using Microsoft products and services. The use of Hyper-V can also be built into both cloud and hybrid cloud options, providing a seamless transition for workloads.
Nutanix solutions
Nutanix helps you build a true hybrid multicloud by leveraging the simplicity, flexibility, and agility of public clouds with the security and control of on-premises infrastructure.
Nutanix offers a software-defined, hyperconverged enterprise cloud platform that combines compute, storage, networking, and virtualisation, providing flexibility to deploy on-premises or in the cloud. These capabilities to extend workloads to public clouds, allow hybrid cloud operators to burst or migrate applications across clouds, without the need to rearchitect or retool for each environment.
Four: Migrate to the cloud
Microsoft Azure
Migrating to Microsoft Azure offers a vast array of solutions, including IaaS, PaaS, and services for application modernisation, making it a comprehensive platform for digital transformation.
Azure offers a broad range of services, from compute and storage to AI and machine learning, with a strong global presence for optimal performance and hybrid cloud support. However, migration can be complex and may involve downtime, so planning is essential. Implementing cost management strategies and preparing a skilling plan will also help ensure a smooth transition and adoption of Azure’s platform.
Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is a Microsoft service that enables organisations to run VMware workloads natively on Azure. It provides a seamless path to the cloud by integrating VMware’s virtualisation technology with Azure’s extensive cloud capabilities.
Azure VMware Solution (AVS) enables seamless VMware integration on Azure, offering scalability, hybrid cloud capabilities, enhanced disaster recovery, and cost efficiency through a pay-as-you-go model. Key considerations include the potential complexity of migration, the need for VMware and Azure skills within your IT Team, robust network infrastructure for connectivity, and meeting compliance requirements, especially in regulated industries.
No matter which option you choose, our team is here to support you in either making the change or optimising your current solution.
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About the author
Kelsey joined Phoenix in late 2022 as the Content and Social Media Apprentice, moving into Content Executive in 2024 after working closely with the Marketing Team to develop her skills in digital marketing. Kelsey’s passion lies in content creation, which is reflected in her contributions across all areas of the business, from external and internal campaigns to our social media accounts.
Kelsey is not only keen to learn about marketing, but also the challenges organisations face and how Phoenix helps them overcome these.