Migration Implementation from VMware to Nutanix, for a leading FinTech Company.
ORGANIZATION
- A global payments and transaction-services leader, operates as a Cross-Border Payment Aggregator (PA-CB), and as an online Payment Aggregator.
- Provides online payment gateway services for e-commerce, retail, travel, insurance, and BFSI.
- Offers in-store point-of-sale terminals and merchant onboarding platforms.
- Acts as an intermediary collecting and settling payments between customers and merchants.
OBJECTIVE
- Reduce VMware licensing cost, simplify management, and modernize for hybrid cloud readiness.
- Drastic license cost increase by Broadcom, approx. 3x & shift to subscription-only
- licensing model.
- High minimum purchase thresholds pushed toward expensive, bundled packages.
- Lower TCO with Nutanix integrated HCI stack of compute, storage, and virtualization (AHV) in one platform, reducing third-party licensing and management overhead.
- Simplified Management by Nutanix Prism provides single-pane visibility for compute, storage, and networking.
- Decline in the quality of support under Broadcom to some extent.
SOLUTION
Migrating from VMware ESXi Clusters to Nutanix Cloud Clusters- Use Nutanix Collector and Sizer to analyze infrastructure utilization and generate optimal sizing.
- Identified applications on VMware and Map to the Nutanix equivalents.
- Implemented Nutanix’s integrated compute nodes and storage scaling, allowing resources to grow in unison, with Prism.
- Leverage Nutanix Move for cross-hypervisor mobility and automated VM migration from vSphere to AHV with minimal downtime.
- Nutanix Move tool “1-click” process greatly simplifies the conversion from ESXi to AHV.
- Installing necessary drivers, such as VirtIO, into the VMs.
- Mapping network settings like IP addresses.
- Health check and validation of Nutanix environment.
RESULT
- Approx. 20% cost reduction in TCO.
- Achieved better operational efficiency with faster response times through simplified management.
- Higher ROI, quicker provisioning.
- Ability to seamlessly scaled compute and storage resources, adapting to dynamic business needs.
- Reduced vendor lock-in and inter dependence.
- Future-Readiness by adopting a hybrid, multi-cloud and AI ready platform.