Modernize VMware on AWS

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VMware customers are at a decision point. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP helps you move forward with a consistent, enterprise-grade data foundation that decouples compute and storage to reduce costs, scale flexibly, and maintain performance, protection, and operational continuity across your modernization journey.

Migrate to Amazon EVS

Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) is the fastest path to migrate and operate VMware workloads on AWS. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP integrates with Amazon EVS to deliver scalable, cost optimized storage for VMware.

Rehost virtual machines to Amazon EC2

Rapidly rehost your VMware VMs to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) while maintaining the data foundation of FSx for ONTAP. Reduce infrastructure costs, scale efficiently, and tap into all the performance and resilience of AWS.

Replatform your workloads to containers and Amazon EKS

Now you can deliver reliable deployments that adapt seamlessly to business demands and the latest application development methods. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides the performance and scalability your workloads demand from your data.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP with Amazon Elastic VMware Service

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Migrate to Amazon EVS with a proven data foundation

Relocate your VMware-based workloads to AWS with the fastest path to cloud while maintaining operational consistency. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is certified for use with Amazon EVS and provides scalable, cost-optimized storage that lets you grow capacity independently of compute while preserving enterprise data services, performance, and protection.

Rehost to Amazon EC2 with a consistent data foundation

Modernize VMware workloads on Amazon EC2 while keeping Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as your data foundation. Decouple compute and storage to reduce costs, scale flexibly, and maintain the enterprise data management, performance, resilience, and protection needed to move forward with confidence.

Replatform to containers with persistent shared storage

Renew applications from VMware to containers with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as a consistent data foundation. Support stateful workloads across Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS while simplifying data management, improving developer agility, and maintaining enterprise-grade performance and protection.

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With Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Xtravirt can rapidly unlock data mobility and flexibility for Amazon EVS environments. For customers wishing to break down traditional storage silos and enable their data architects to deliver critical business insights, this will be a compelling proposition.

Robin Gardner, Chief Commercial Officer, Xtravirt

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Take the next step

Schedule a no-cost strategy session with an AWS expert. We’ll connect you with a specialist who can help you evaluate the right path forward, whether you’re looking to migrate with Amazon EVS, rehost to Amazon EC2, or replatform to containers, and learn how Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP can provide the consistent data foundation to reduce costs, simplify migration, and support long-term innovation.

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Find out just how easy it is to get up and running with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

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Confidently support your VMware workloads

Starting today, you can use FSx for ONTAP to simplify and quicken your VMware deployments to AWS. 

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Explore NetApp for VMware

Unlock the full speed, efficiency, and cost savings of your virtualized applications with trusted storage solutions from NetApp.

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Gain a competitive advantage

Integrate NetApp® ONTAP® data management capabilities VMware on AWS and take VMware workloads to the next level.

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Simplify VMware migrations to AWS

AWS Transform now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as a block storage target, helping VMware teams move compute, network, and storage together while preserving enterprise data services.

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Talk with a VMware modernization specialist

Get expert guidance on the right path for your VMware workloads on AWS, from rehosting and replatforming to refactoring, with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as your data foundation.

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