Wicked fast VM Migrations with NetApp Shift Toolkit

After Broadcom acquired VMware, every organization experienced significant changes to licensing, resulting in higher costs and these changes are driving organizations to reassess their virtualization and cloud strategies, with a focus on cost management and flexibility.

NetApp is assisting customers in adapting to these changes by offering tools and services for quick, space-efficient migrations, creating a future-ready platform for hybrid cloud, application acceleration, and data center modernization. NetApp's intelligent data infrastructure supports the deployment of any workload across any location on a unified architecture, reducing costs and complexity in the post-Broadcom environment.

The NetApp Shift toolkit offers a user-friendly graphical interface for migrating virtual machines (VMs) across different hypervisors and converting virtual disk formats. It leverages NetApp FlexClone® technology for rapid VM hard disk conversion. Additionally, the toolkit handles the creation and configuration of destination VMs. By supporting bidirectional conversion between various hypervisors, the Shift toolkit ensures dynamic VM mobility in a multi-hypervisor environment, allowing organizations to optimize their licensing and integrate their preferred hypervisors without any data movement and minimal downtime.

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