Nova evaluates your VMware environment by examining workloads, technical dependencies, operational constraints, and licensing exposure together. This 2-4 week assessment ties infrastructure reality to contract timing and cost risk, so migration decisions are based on documented facts rather than renewal pressure.
As an AWS Advanced Partner, Nova aligns assessment findings with AWS migration frameworks and funding programs. This helps translate assessment results into an executable AWS plan that fits governance, security, and financial review requirements.
Environment Visibility: A complete inventory of VMware workloads, dependencies, performance profiles, and operational risk that affects migration sequencing.
Licensing Exposure Analysis: A view of Broadcom-era licensing cost risk and renewal timelines. Our assessments have resulted in up to $500K in license savings after migration and optimization in documented client engagements.
Migration Path Validation: Workloads are grouped into move-as-is, replatform, or defer categories, forming a phased 3-6 month migration plan based on complexity and risk.
AWS-Native Direction: Target architectures are defined using AWS-native services, which avoids VMware extensions or long-term dependency carryover.
Review VMware licensing exposure, renewal timelines, and contract terms to quantify cost impact and timing pressure before migration planning.
Define phased migration paths based on workload readiness, dependency mapping, and financial review requirements.
Keep VMware environments operational under valid perpetual licenses while assessments and migrations are executed.
Evaluate hardware buyout and lease-back options to reduce overlapping infrastructure costs during migration.
Plan replication, test cutovers, validation checkpoints, and rollback paths to move workloads to AWS with controlled downtime.
Establish monitoring, cost controls, and operational ownership for AWS-native environments after VMware workloads are retired.
Why Nova
Financial Alignment Across Decisions: Licensing exposure, hardware assets, and migration timing are reviewed together so infrastructure choices match budget reality and contract constraints.
End-to-End Accountability: The same team that runs the assessment stays involved through migration planning, execution, and post-migration operations on AWS.
Direct Access to Senior Engineers: Assessments and migration plans are led by experienced cloud and infrastructure engineers. They are not handed off between sales, delivery, and support teams.
Structured Decision Checkpoints: Findings are reviewed at defined stages so leadership can approve, defer, or adjust migration steps before changes reach production.
Our Services
Increase efficiency, scalability, and security with AWS cloud solutions tailored to your business.
Gain a competitive advantage and leverage emerging technology to transform your business.
Our DevOps experts help you stay agile and launch new products, optimizing delivery pipelines.
We monitor, optimize, and secure your tech stack while keeping costs in check and performance high.
Streamline your operations and drive innovation with new integrations and software capabilities.
Frequently Asked Questions
Get clear answers to common questions about VMware assessments and AWS migration. Whether you’re evaluating a consulting partner or planning a VMware exit, we're here to help.
A typical migration assessment runs between 2 and 4 weeks, depending on the size of your environment and the number of systems involved. During this time, Nova inventories your virtual machines, maps dependencies, reviews operational constraints, and documents licensing exposure.
The goal is not to produce a generic report. This output supports a practical migration strategy that leadership can review before approving any changes to production systems.
Yes, in many cases, VMware environments can continue operating under valid perpetual licences while a migration is planned and executed. Nova’s Bridge Support keeps systems stable during this window, which reduces pressure to make rushed decisions under renewal deadlines.
This approach gives teams time to plan a controlled VMware migration rather than reacting to contract timelines set by a virtualization provider.
No. Not every application needs immediate cloud-native modernization to move off VMware. Some workloads transition directly, while others benefit from changes later.
Nova evaluates each system as part of a broader workload transition plan. The goal is to move safely first, then modernize where it makes sense, rather than forcing a large modernization effort across all systems at once.
AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) funding can support the planning and execution phases of cloud migration projects. Nova aligns assessment findings with MAP requirements so funding supports real work instead of assumptions.
MAP is typically paired with cost analysis to show leadership where migration reduces exposure to future licensing increases and where spend shifts from on-prem infrastructure to AWS services.
When workloads move off VMware, organizations usually face overlapping costs across data centers and AWS. Nova reviews existing hardware as part of cost & licensing exposure analysis, including options to buy out and lease back equipment during migration. This helps reduce high costs caused by running duplicate infrastructure during transition.
After migration, Nova continues supporting AWS environments through managed services focused on operations, monitoring, and financial controls. This includes review of IT infrastructure ownership, cost reporting, and operational readiness.
Post-migration support also covers disaster recovery planning on AWS, which replaces legacy VMware-based recovery patterns with AWS-native services.
Security is reviewed during assessment and migration planning. Our team evaluates workload access, network boundaries, and security requirements as part of migration design. This matters most in regulated industries and hybrid environment setups, where some systems remain on-prem temporarily while others move to AWS.
Many organizations already have a defined virtualization strategy tied to VMware. And we do not extend or resell VMware platforms. Instead, our assessments focus on how to exit the VMware ecosystem while maintaining operational continuity.
The result is a documented transition from VMware-based virtual infrastructure to AWS services, rather than a long-term dependency shift.
Nova uses AWS services based on workload needs and architecture decisions. Migration targets are selected to support cloud native outcomes where appropriate.
AWS native services used in migration may include:
These choices support long-term cloud native workloads instead of carrying VMware tooling forward.
Cost decisions are reviewed alongside execution risk during planning. Nova evaluates cost savings opportunities tied to licensing, infrastructure, and operational changes before migration steps are approved. This approach supports cost optimization without creating instability during production cutovers.
Many VMware migration services focus only on technical execution. Nova’s approach ties licensing exposure, asset decisions, and migration timing together as part of modernization and migration planning. This helps teams regain IT agility without committing to irreversible changes too early in the process.
Migration planning includes a review of your target cloud architecture, including how applications, data, and integrations will operate after VMware is retired. This avoids mismatches between migrated systems and long-term AWS operating models.
