Beyond the move: Introducing the Virtualization Migration Assessment Expanded

For a long time, organizations treated their infrastructure’s virtualization layer as steady and predictable. You built on it and you trusted it. Lately, that stability has been disrupted by complex shifts, including rising licensing costs and the urgent requirement to get ready for AI by adding more compute, storage, and other hardware resources. The infrastructure that used to feel settled now feels like it's at a crossroads.

Many teams across organizational levels are realizing that they don't just need a new place to host their virtual machines (VMs)—they need to lay a strategic foundation to bridge the gap between the applications that run the business today and the AI-driven workloads that will define it tomorrow. But even those teams mainly focusing on day-to-day operations still need to keep such challenges in mind. 

The evolution of the Virtualization Migration Assessment

To help teams navigate this transformation, Red Hat Consulting developed the Virtualization Migration Assessment. Over the last 18 months, it’s become the go-to starting point for hundreds of organizations looking for a data-driven roadmap to migrate their workloads with confidence.

However, we also know that migration isn't a one-size-fits-all term. For some, the priority is hitting a specific deadline with an efficient move while mitigating risk. For others, it is the right moment to introduce new technologies into an organization’s toolkit, including:

• Infrastructure as code and other automation
• Hybrid management, where containers and VMs run side by side
• Migration factories that can handle mass migrations at scale

To support organizations’ differing levels of resources and scope, we’re evolving the Virtualization Migration Assessment into two distinct tracks: the standard engagement that’s been the gold standard, and the new Virtualization Migration Assessment Expanded.

Choosing the right path for your organization

The standard Virtualization Migration Assessment remains the core of the offering. It’s a focused, two-week engagement that forms the basis for a roadmap to production and a customized migration journey. However, for customers looking for an engagement that can help them meet their critical modernization priorities, the Virtualization Migration Assessment Expanded offers a modular approach and can be adapted to explore individual modernization topics.

Tailoring your strategy with expanded modules

The Virtualization Migration Assessment Expanded allows you to customize your journey beyond the solid core the Virtualization Migration Assessment has traditionally offered. Red Hat Consulting offers more than 15 modules that can be added to the scope of the standard Virtualization Migration Assessment, covering the following topics:

• Kubernetes migration: Moving beyond just VMs to embrace container-native applications, GitOps, and improving the developer experience.
• AI platform readiness: Preparing your infrastructure to host and scale AI/ML workloads alongside your legacy apps.
• Enterprise automation: Using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to manage your new environment at scale rather than through manual intervention.
• Operational transformation: Enhancing your processes to match the speed of a cloud-native platform.

Stop guessing, start migrating

Whether you decide to stay focused with the standard assessment or customize your journey with expanded modules, you’ll find that the Virtualization Migration Assessment is designed to remove the guesswork from your migration. The path to follow depends on your business goals. If you need to accelerate migration, the standard Virtualization Migration Assessment is the right fit. If you have the resources and flexibility to solve for AI, automation, or developer experience in parallel with that process, the Virtualization Migration Assessment Expanded allows you the opportunity to do so. 

Ready to see which path best fits your needs? Contact your Red Hat account team to schedule your Virtualization Migration Assessment today.