VMware Cloud on AWS: Insights on the First VMware Enterprise-Proven SaaS Solution

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C. LombardVMware Cloud on AWShttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9364-5_3

3. Migrating and Consuming Workloads on VMC

Christophe Lombard¹  

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Triel Sur Seine, France

 

This chapter discusses the differences between the various methods available to migrate workloads into a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC.

One of the advantages of VMware Cloud on AWS is that it permits to move workloads to the cloud without having to modify the VM format as the destination platform is running the same vSphere hypervisor. It’s very different from doing a lift and shift¹ in native AWS where it requires transforming the VMs to EC2 instances and so involves a change in the VM format.

There ...