You’ve been tasked with deciding the best approach for your organization’s VMware renewal or migration. The key factors are your organization’s ability to change, willingness to adapt and long-term strategy. Consider an AWS migration if you have a cloud-focused strategy, plan to divest your data center or want to use this migration as a steppingstone to AWS.

The quantity of licenses and the workloads that perform on those licenses are big considerations. For many services organizations, the minimum viable project is 200 virtual machines (VMs). Your buying power increases exponentially when you reach 1,000 licenses or greater. Length of migration is directly tied to your existing license investments and while it may not be a linear relationship, assume greater than three months for migrations of 200 VMs or more.