The SUSE Virtualization: Migration Readiness Assessment is a Predefined Consulting Service designed to assist with the transition from VMware environments to a unified, hyperconverged SUSE Virtualization platform through a formal assessment methodology. By leveraging SUSE’s technical expertise to audit existing vSphere inventory, network topologies, and storage architectures, the service provides organizations with a readiness assessment for a VM migration.

The primary value lies in its structured five-phase approach—covering virtual infrastructure and machine utilization and configuration audits to target platform requirement definitions—culminating in a detailed Migration Readiness Assessment Report. This predefined service streamlines the assessment process through discovery activities, analysis, tooling recommendations, and next steps, ensuring that the requirements for the target infrastructure are defined as you prepare for your migration to SUSE Virtualization.

Your Journey to Modern Virtualization

If you’ve been following the shifting landscape of enterprise IT, you know that “business as usual” for virtualization is a thing of the past. Rising costs and licensing complexity have pushed many to look for a platform that doesn’t just replicate the old way of doing things but propels you toward a cloud-native future.

That’s where SUSE Virtualization comes in. But moving your entire infrastructure isn’t just a technical toggle—it’s a journey. To ensure you don’t just land, but thrive on the other side, SUSE Global Services has developed four mileposts to guide you in the journey.

The path to the unified, cloud-native virtual infrastructure offered by SUSE Virtualization is paved with expert guidance and practices. The mileposts are predefined and custom consulting services to assist you along your migration journey.

You may just beginning the journey, or you may be further on your way. No matter where you are, here is a description of each of the mileposts offered by SUSE services that can help you progress on this path.

SUSE Virtualization: Test Drive

Before committing your production workloads, you need to see the tires spin. The Test Drive is a focused proof-of-concept engagement. Our experts help you deploy a controlled environment where your team can evaluate core capabilities of SUSE Virtualization, validate VM operations, and ensure the infrastructure fits your operational DNA.

SUSE Virtualization: Migration Readiness Assessment

Success begins before the first VM is moved. The Migration Readiness Assessment is our newest milepost. We look under the hood of your current environment—analyzing VM count, OS compatibility, storage architecture, and network topology.

The five-phase Migration Readiness Assessment provides a structured framework that transitions an organization from discovery to an actionable migration readiness tasks needed in preparation for a VM migration to SUSE Virtualization. The phases start with assessments of the infrastructure and VMs, then to planning and requirement definition needed to recommend a migration strategy. The findings are formally presented with the report to discuss the next steps.

SUSE Virtualization: Implement

With the migration readiness assessment report in hand, the design and deployment phase begins. The Implement service focuses on deploying a SUSE Virtualization environment that is ready run virtual machines identified in the assessment. This isn’t just an install, it’s about configuring resilient cluster topologies, setting up high-performance SUSE Storage (Longhorn), and implementing SUSE Virtualization aligned with business requirements.

SUSE Virtualization: Migration

Finally, we move the needle. The Migration service executes the transition of your virtual machines to your new hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) stack of SUSE Virtualization. We use structured waves to transfer, optimize, andl validate virtual machines to ensure data integrity and minimal downtime.

Starting your Journey

Ready to take the first step? Visit the SUSE Consulting Services to view service briefs for the Test Drive and Implement modules, or contact your account executive to schedule your Migration Readiness Assessment.

Virtualization isn’t just about VMs anymore—it’s about the platform that empowers them. Are you ready for the journey?

Additional Resources

To get the most out of your transition, here is a curated list of resources to help you study the architecture and business value:

Training

• Introduction to SUSE Virtualization (Harvester) Course eHRV101v1.2 : The official SUSE training on SUSE Virtualization.

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