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Reduce datacenter exit risk and VMware cost exposure with an automated discovery assessment that delivers TCO analysis, dependency mapping, and a migration wave plan.
Overview
Grid Dynamics Datacenter Migration Assessment
The Grid Dynamics Datacenter Migration Assessment is a structured professional services engagement that integrates infrastructure discovery, network dependency telemetry, licensing analysis, and financial modeling to evaluate complex on-premises environments. By combining agentless hypervisor discovery with guest-level process tracing, the service establishes cloud-ready sizing, identifies potential migration risks, and recommends optimal target placement on AWS.
This assessment is engineered for organizations facing aging hardware refresh cycles, unoptimized VMware footprints (avoiding 'Broadcom Cost Shock'), and complex server interdependencies. It is designed for Fortune-1000 enterprises, tier-1 organizations, and businesses planning rapid datacenter evacuations to secure, scalable AWS environments.
What You Receive
Infrastructure and Workload Inventory A structured evaluation of your physical and virtual servers, CPU/RAM/storage specifications, and database footprints - giving you a complete picture of what needs to move and how it should be sized for AWS.
Network Dependency Mapping Process-to-process and Layer 4/7 socket binding maps that identify multi-tier application boundaries and prevent broken dependencies during migration. These maps ensure your applications maintain connectivity and performance in their new cloud environment.
7 R's Migration Strategy and Wave Plan Multi-dimensional classification of every workload across seven strategies - Rehost, Replatform, Relocate, Retire, Retain, Refactor, and Repurchase - clustered into optimized, dependency-aware migration wave move-groups. This wave plan gives your team a clear, sequenced execution roadmap.
Financial TCO Forecast and License Optimization A precise financial comparison of your current on-premises run-rates versus target AWS workload costs. This includes AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessments (OLA) to optimize Windows Server and SQL Server licensing costs, helping you quantify the business case for migration.
Secure Assessment Reports and Landing Zone Blueprints High-fidelity architectural blueprints outlining secure landing zone designs and compliance baselines for your target AWS environment.
How the Assessment Works
The assessment uses a multi-tool discovery stack that combines agentless hypervisor-level scanning with guest-level process tracing. This dual approach captures both infrastructure metrics and runtime application dependencies without requiring agents to be installed on your servers.
Data collection feeds directly into dependency analysis and financial modeling, producing actionable migration wave plans rather than raw inventory spreadsheets. The result is a complete migration blueprint your team can execute against immediately.
Who This Assessment Is For
- Enterprises facing VMware license cost increases who need to understand their options for moving workloads to AWS quickly and cost-effectively
- Organizations with aging datacenter hardware approaching end-of-life refresh cycles who want to evaluate cloud migration as an alternative to capital reinvestment
- IT leaders planning datacenter exits who need dependency-aware wave plans to de-risk large-scale migrations
- Teams preparing AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) engagements who require a thorough assessment as a foundation for funded migration projects
AWS Integration
The assessment leverages AWS-native tools and frameworks, including AWS Application Discovery Service, to ensure findings translate directly into actionable AWS deployment plans. The financial modeling incorporates AWS pricing and licensing optimization recommendations, including OLA for Windows Server and SQL Server workloads.
Get Started
Contact Grid Dynamics to schedule a scoping conversation and begin planning your datacenter migration assessment.
Highlights
- Multi-Tool Discovery Vector Integration: Leveraging a mix of native hyperscaler discovery engines (such as AWS Application Discovery Service) and premium partner platforms (Matilda Cloud, CloudHedge CHAI DART) to capture both infrastructure metrics and deep network telemetry (TCP & UDP flows).
- Sovereign AI and Air-Gapped Deployment: Offers a fully offline virtual appliance option designed for environments with strict confidentiality requirements. This air-gapped deployment ensures zero data exfiltration, making the assessment suitable for regulated industries and customer enclaves where data sovereignty is non-negotiable. All discovery, analysis, and reporting can be completed entirely within the customer's secure perimeter.
- Fixed-Fee Engagement with Partner Funding Eligibility: Delivers a bounded-cost assessment model that reduces financial risk for buyers. Assessment costs are frequently offset through partner funding programs such as AWS MAP (Migration Acceleration Program). The assessment produces actionable deliverables - including a TCO forecast, license optimization analysis, and a prioritized migration wave plan - that directly feed into a Migration Factory execution model.
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Grid Dynamics provides end-to-end support for datacenter migration assessment engagements, beginning with deep infrastructure discovery and extending through wave migration execution and Day-2 operations.
Assessment Phase Support During the assessment engagement, Grid Dynamics delivers hands-on support across all phases including automated workload discovery, network dependency mapping, 7 R's classification, TCO analysis, and migration wave planning. The assessment produces key deliverables including an Infrastructure and Workload Inventory, Network Dependency Map, 7 R's Wave Plan, Financial TCO Forecast with License Optimization, and Secure Assessment Reports.
Discovery Tools and Methodology The team leverages a combination of native hyperscaler discovery engines (such as AWS Application Discovery Service) and premium partner platforms (Matilda Cloud, CloudHedge CHAI DART, Device42). For environments requiring strict confidentiality, a fully offline virtual appliance option ensures zero data exfiltration.
Post-Assessment and Day-2 Support The assessment directly informs a Migration Factory delivery model (such as AWS MGN or Azure Migration Factory) for execution. Grid Dynamics also offers 24x7 SRE/AIOps managed services for reliable Day-2 operations support following migration.
Contact Please contact Grid Dynamics at sales@griddynamics.com to discuss engagement scope, timelines, support options, and partner funding eligibility for your datacenter migration and exit goals.
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