What-If-Analysis - Migration Planning: VMware Cloud
What-If-Analysis - Migration Planning, allows you to evaluate your plan for migrating
or moving workloads across different VMware clouds. You can compare capacity and cost of
workload across Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS), VMware Cloud on Dell EMC (VMCD), VMware
Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure VMware Solution (AVS), and Google Cloud VMware
Engine (GCVE).
VMware Aria
Operations
evalautes the migration plan, calculates the cost and capacity
requirements, and provides cost estimate for the selected VMC workload.Where You Find What-If Analysis -
Migration Planning
In the left menu, click . The Capacity Plan page opens. Click
What-If
Analysis
and in the What-If Analysis page, click the
ADD
button. In the Migration Planning: VMware Cloud tile,
click Plan Migration
.How What-If Analysis - Migration
Planning Works
The What-If-Analysis feature of Capacity
Optimization lets you forecast successfully the impact of migrating a workload to
the VMware Cloud instance such as Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS), VMware Cloud
on Dell EMC (VMCD), VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure VMware Solution
(AVS), and Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE). Once you select the Migration Planning
screen, choose whether you want to run the scenario against a VMware Cloud on AWS or
other type of cloud accounts. For the VMware Cloud, select the region where you want
to migrate the workload.
When you have set the profile for the
migrating workload, run the scenario to get the analysis and assessment of your
plan. You can select one VMware cloud at a time and get the estimate for migration
planning cost. Alternatively, you can save the scenario to edit or run later on. A
list of saved scenarios is available in the Saved Scenarios tab on the What-If
analysis page.
If you selected VMware Cloud on AWS for
your scenario, the results list the VMware Cloud on AWS Assessment, with details of
the VMware configuration. The result also displays the resource-use-level cost and
the monthly purchase cost for an on-demand subscription. In addition, the result
displays the resource-use-level cost and monthly purchase cost for one-year and
three-year subscriptions.
About Clouds
The system might provide a recommendation
based on the cost of placing the workload on different VMware clouds. This
cost-based recommendation varies for different clouds.
For VMware Cloud on AWS, the system
displays the resource-use-level cost and the monthly purchase cost for an on-demand
subscription, plus those same costs for one-year and three-year subscriptions.
VMware cloud costs are based on the
selected configuration, that is, the allocated resources.