On-premise VM Migration to AWS Cloud with Quantiphi’s Qatapult

As enterprises modernize their digital foundations, migrating infrastructure to the cloud has become a key enabler of agility, performance, and innovation. However, transitioning infrastructure from on-premises to the cloud brings its own set of complexities, riddled with high transfer cost, significant efforts in planning & interoperability challenge

Quantiphi’s Qatapult, a suite of modernization and migration factories for AWS delivers secure, cost-efficient migration to AWS through an AI-powered, factory-driven approach. Qatapult provides a robust and streamlined solution to significantly accelerate the migration of your on-premises virtual machine workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Key Components of VM Migration with Qatapult: Discovery and Assessment:

• Agentless Discovery Tools: Identification and generation of inventories for all VMs, applications, and dependencies across your on-premises environment
• Workload Profiling: Analysis of CPU, memory, storage, and network utilization, alongside application performance characteristics, for recommendation of optimal AWS instance types and configurations
• Dependency Mapping: Visualization of intricate application and infrastructure dependencies for creation of intelligent migration waves, minimizing disruption and ensuring correct migration order
• Cost Analysis and TCO: Generation of comprehensive cost comparisons between current on-premises environment and projected AWS environment, including licensing considerations and potential savings

Migration and Orchestration:

• Continuous Data Replication: Leveraging block-level replication technologies to continuously sync data from on-premises VMs to AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, ensuring minimal data loss and reduced downtime during cutover
• Instance Provisioning: Programmatical provision of AWS EC2 instances, VPCs, subnets, security groups, and other necessary cloud resources based on the assessment findings
• Cutover: Orchestration and automation of the final cutover process with near-zero downtime, including DNS updates, network reconfigurations, and application-specific adjustments
• OS and Application Remediation: Built-in capabilities or integrated tools to handle common operating system and application-level adjustments required post-migration (e.g., driver updates, hostname changes)
• Testing and Validation Framework: Provision of capabilities for non-disruptive testing of migrated workloads in AWS before the final cutover, allowing for performance validation and issue resolution

Post-Migration Optimization and Management:

• Cost Optimization Tools: Integrated features for ongoing cost monitoring, right-sizing recommendations, and utilization analysis to ensure efficient cloud spending
• Performance Monitoring and Tuning: Dashboards and alerts to monitor the performance of migrated applications and infrastructure, with recommendations for further optimization
• Integration with AWS Native Services: Seamless integration with services like AWS CloudWatch for monitoring, AWS Systems Manager for operational automation, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for granular access control
• Reporting and Analytics: Comprehensive reports on migration progress, success rates, resource utilization, and cost savings

Qatapult streamlines end-to-end virtual machine migration, delivering faster workload migration through process automation

Migration Offering Benefits - The following benefits can be achieved by an Enterprise:

• Accelerated Time to Cloud: Drastic reduction in time required for migrating large and complex VM environments, enabling faster realization of cloud benefits
• Reduced Migration Risk and Downtime: Automated processes, continuous replication, and robust testing capabilities minimize the risk of data loss, application disruption, and human error during the migration process
• Cost Optimization and Savings: Transition from high upfront capital expenditures to a flexible, pay-as-you-go operational model, leading to significant cost reductions in infrastructure, power, cooling, and maintenance. Identification and capitalization of cost-saving opportunities post-migration
• Enhanced Agility and Innovation: Unleash the power of AWS’ scalable, elastic, and feature-rich environment. Gain the agility to innovate faster, deploy new services, and respond rapidly to market demands
• Improved Operational Efficiency: Automation of manual migration tasks, freeing up IT staff to focus on strategic initiatives rather than repetitive operational work. Benefit from simplified management and reduced operational overhead

AWS Services - Migration Evaluator, Migration Hub, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, Identity and Access Management (IAM), VPC, EKS, ECS, Fargate, CloudTrail, etc.