VMware Discontinues "Perpetual Licensing"! How Can Users Achieve Cross-Platform Virtualization Data Migration?

Since December 11, 2023, VMware has discontinued the sale of perpetual licenses and transitioned to a subscription-based model. The support and subscription (SnS) renewals for perpetual products have also been terminated. Following Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, a two-year transition period has now passed, and VMware has fully implemented its product subscription model.

In recent years, there have been frequent occurrences of "foreign companies exiting the market." Last year, Nutanix announced its shift to a partner-led sales model in the Chinese market. In December of this year, Citrix issued an announcement about its complete withdrawal from the Chinese market, followed closely by VMware's full transition to a subscription-only model. These foreign brands, once regarded as industry benchmarks in China, have successively adjusted their market strategies and layouts in China, highlighting their "incompatibility" with the wave of domestic substitution.

At the same time, many domestic users have begun to worry about the sustainability of technical support, feature updates, version upgrades, operation and maintenance management, and other service guarantees for these virtualization software products. Even if they are not immediately affected, users are more inclined to prepare for potential challenges. Choosing a secure, stable, and reliable domestic brand for a smooth transition will become a key focus in the near future. Of course, this is just one scenario. Organizations may also consider cross-platform migration to private clouds for more profound reasons:

• Multi-Cloud Architecture

  In most organizations, there is more than one virtualization platform. Due to the continuous development of information-based business, multiple virtualization platforms are often built at different times to jointly support business operations. In a multi-cloud architecture, organizations aim to achieve seamless migration between private cloud platforms, reduce vendor lock-in issues, and increase the flexibility of virtualization platform choices.

• Private Cloud Platform Upgrades

  Platform upgrades are a critical consideration for every organization, such as software version upgrades or hardware updates. During platform upgrades, it is essential to ensure the data security and business continuity of information systems. When necessary, preparations for cross-cloud migration must also be made.

• Resource Balancing

  Organizations need to flexibly adjust the deployment of cloud hosts based on the workload of each private cloud platform. For example, if the resources of a private cloud platform are about to be fully occupied, cloud hosts need to be migrated to a platform with more available resources to improve resource utilization.

However, cross-platform migration is not that simple. It not only requires migrating various types of business system data to the new platform, ensuring data availability, consistency, and security, but also minimizing business downtime to ensure business continuity.

Datapp-NBP: A Powerful Tool for Cross-Platform Migration.

Datapp-NBP's agentless protection and instant recovery capabilities perfectly address the challenges of cross-platform migration. By utilizing agentless data extraction technology, it enables the replication of entire cloud hosts. Combined with rapid cloud host file format conversion and instant recovery capabilities, it facilitates smooth cross-platform migration with downtime approaching "zero" throughout the process.

During the data extraction phase, Datapp-NBP supports full extraction, incremental extraction, and replica consolidation without the need to install any agent plugins, ensuring security and reliability. Datapp-NBP employs virtual conversion engine technology to automatically convert virtual machine files into formats recognizable by the target virtualization platform, enabling mutual conversion of virtual machines across various cloud platform architectures, such as VMware→KVM, KVM→VMware, and KVM→KVM. The instant recovery capability allows for the rapid activation of cloud hosts with any data volume, enabling any cloud host to start up within minutes, with downtime independent of the data volume.

The tide of domestic innovation is unstoppable, and the businesses it carries are gradually evolving from the periphery to the core. Consequently, the requirements for data reliability and business availability are also increasing. The Datapp-NBP product solution from Shucun Technology has been successfully implemented and recognized in various sectors, including government, healthcare, education, manufacturing, energy and power, and finance. 

In the future, DatApp will continue to delve deeper into the field of information security, adhering to the principles of technological innovation and independent research and development. Leveraging the power of domestic information technology, DatApp aims to provide trustworthy data protection capabilities for users across various industries, contributing to the construction of a digital China.