Jim Marsden Sector Lead
With Bell Integration, you’ll be able to get the most out of your VMware investment and mitigate the impact of Broadcom’s new subscription-based licensing
VMware Discovery & Optimisation Service
Optimise your VMware environment – and mitigate the impact of rising subscription-based licensing costs
Rightsize your VMware estate and start exploring alternative solutions for your architecture and operations strategy. Whether you need a strategic review, migration or optimisation. Discovery & Optimisation is an end-to end-service that ensures you can navigate today’s fast-changing data centre and cloud landscape and future-proof your virtualisation strategy.
For many VMware by Broadcom customers, costs are set to increase dramatically. This could be up to 10x in some cases, so you need to act fast when it comes to mitigating the impact of Broadcom’s new subscription-based licensing and product bundling model on your IT and cloud budgets.
Navigating these changes isn’t easy and there are significant commercial and technical implications to consider as you decide how best to move forward. With renewal deadlines looming, you need to be certain you can continue to deliver mission-critical business services in the most cost-effective way possible.
Understanding the options available to you is just the start. As a top priority you need to streamline and optimise your existing VMware environment in order to reduce your renewal costs.
Longer term, you want to re-evaluate your virtualisation strategy. Determining whether it’s best to stick with VMware, rethinking your existing portfolio to drive down overall licensing costs. Or if it’s time to consider more financially viable alternative options for your workloads.
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Giving you clarity and control, our VMware Discovery & Optimisation workshops enable you to:
Evaluate your current VMware environment
identifying ways to streamline your architecture and contain licensing costs.
Assess ways to optimise your VMware assets
Re-architect and optimise your infrastructure to manage costs more effectively.
Pinpoint the most appropriate VMware by Broadcom bundles for your licensing
Avoid paying for platform components and features that you will not use. Maximise the value of advanced bundles.
Explore alternative options
Compare solutions and determine which offers the most viable commercial and technical alternative for your identified I&O needs.
Get tailored guidance on cost calculations
Tailored feasibility analysis delivers the insights you need on the true costs associated with transitioning to an alternative virtualisation strategy.
Consider an exit strategy
Should you decide to rethink your long-term virtualisation strategy, we can help you accelerate your migration plans.
Why Bell Integration?
With Bell Integration, you’ll be able to get the most out of your VMware investment and mitigate the impact of Broadcom’s new subscription-based licensing. You’ll also be able to make an informed decision on whether to ‘stick’ with VMware or consider alternative hypervisors or containerisation options.
Our Approach
Evaluation
We help you conduct a full assessment of your existing VMware infrastructure, workloads, interdependencies and VMware bundles and evaluate utilisation metrics.
VMware optimisation
We categorise and match your current assets, licenses and virtualisation needs to specific offerings within the updated VMware bundles to ensure you avoid paying for unnecessary features. We right-size your environment, identifying potential unnecessary spending and fine-tuning your existing infrastructure. For example, to reduce licensing expenses associated with a higher core count, we identify ways to optimise CPU core count without compromising performance.
Assessing alternative options
Our end-to-end cost analysis compares the financial implications of different virtualisation platforms, evaluating everything from licensing and storage to managing workloads. We also help you explore various pathways open to you including cloud-managed services, alternative hypervisor providers for on-prem virtualisation and containerisation options.
Armed with this detailed ROI/TCO analysis, you’ll understand all the pros and cons to consider – including the cost of replacing applications, server and storage hardware, third-party management tools and changing automation scripts. After which you can determine whether to stick with VMware or switch.
Prepared for an exit strategy
We help you determine how best to migrate to your new platform and proactively prepare your exit strategy. We have experience from migrating thousands of workloads in complex environments to and from VMware, in both hybrid and cloud native environments.
