Google Cloud VMware Engine
With Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), you can run your VMware workloads in the cloud, rely on Google’s powerful infrastructure, and benefit from the innovation of Google Cloud. At Söldner Consult, we have over 20 years of VMware experience and support you with our expertise to operate your VMware environment in the cloud.
Advantages of Google Cloud VMware Engine
Seamless Migration
Whether you are lifting and shifting your applications or building a hybrid cloud environment – you will always experience a seamless migration.
Powerful Infrastructure
You benefit from the scalability and high availability of Google Cloud.
Integration with Google Cloud Services
Google Cloud leads the way in security, data, AI platform, and generative AI. With GCVE, you can directly leverage these services.
Private Cloud as Self-Service
A GCVE environment can be set up in a short amount of time. This can be done through the graphical user interface or tools like Terraform.
Multi-Cloud in Your Application
With GCVE, you can implement your multi-cloud strategy while using your familiar tools and applications.
Cost Savings
GCVE allows you to set up a “breathing,” elastic VMware environment and only pay for the resources you actually need. GCVE nodes can be obtained on-demand or with GCP Committed Use Discounts (CUD) for one or three years.
What is Söldner Consult’s approach?
- In an assessment, we develop a shared understanding of your business goals, current IT infrastructure, and requirements for Google Cloud VMware Engine. We evaluate your existing environment and define the scope, including timelines and success criteria.
- Next, we create an architecture design that covers compliance, security, and regulatory requirements.
- We set up your GCVE environment and establish the interconnect between your on-premises environment and GCVE.
- We integrate GCVE into the landing zone.
- After a pilot migration and testing the workloads for functionality and performance, we carry out the workload migration.
- We assist you with operations and management, focusing on optimization and security topics.
Access your existing infrastructure and organization
Plan your migration priorities and prepare your foundations
Migrate waves of wordloads, of any type
Optimze workloads and operations, build value from the cloud
Architecture
Google Cloud VMware Engine can be operated stand-alone or used to build a hybrid cloud environment.
As hardware, you receive VSAN-based, hyper-converged nodes.
Connectivity can be established via VPN or Interconnect (recommended).
Google Cloud VMware Engine Use Cases
Expansion or Replacement of Your Data Center
Scale your data center capacity as needed in the cloud without further investments in your on-premises infrastructure. Expand your existing vSphere environment into Google Cloud.
Disaster Recovery and Data Protection
Leverage robust solutions for disaster recovery and data protection. Use existing tools like Zerto or Veeam to complement or replace your current DR sites and use the Cloud Storage Service as the underlying object storage. Utilize your GCVE private clouds as DR sites for local workloads, based on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and HCX.
Cloud Migrations or Consolidations
Securely and easily move specific applications to the cloud with a lift-and-shift approach. Consolidate various vSphere-based clouds and renew your infrastructure efficiently.
Application Modernization
Gradually modernize your applications and utilize cloud-native services such as databases and AI/ML engines to optimize your business processes.
