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CloudHealth by VMware

Last update: May 15, 2023

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Product overview

Category Product capabilities
Product website

 VMware Tanzu CloudHealth
Product certifications

AWS Competency Program competencies and other certifications

  • AWS Migration and Modernization – Business Case Analysis

  • AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency
AWS Marketplace

Link to subscribe or download

 VMware Tanzu CloudHealth on AWS Marketplace
Tool deployment model

Product can be SaaS-based or customer-deployed

 SaaS on AWS (vendor VPC)
Compliance

 System and Organization Controls 2 (SOC 2) Type II
Service model

  • Full self-service – Deployment, management, and maintenance can be done by the customer or end-user

  • Managed service (including partner-enabled service) – Deployment, management, and maintenance require professional services
Pricing model

 Subscription

Business case analysis capabilities

Category Product capabilities
Data import

The ability to upload IT asset data from discovery tools (such as CMDB extract, VCenter extract, SolarWinds, or Hyper-V) or from software distribution tools (such as Microsoft SCCM)

 Programmatically through the API
Right-sizing, Amazon EC2 instance type

The ability to select the Amazon EC2 instance type with the lowest cost based on the source server profile1 and utilization data2, application characteristics3, and Amazon EC2 characteristics4

  • vCPU and CPU core count mapping and RAM mapping between the source server or VM and target EC2 instance

  • CPU and RAM utilization data over time, including maximum (peak), average (or median), standard deviation, and percentile statistics
Exclusion of resource types

The ability to exclude Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types, such as burstable T3, from TCO calculation

 Yes
VMware Cloud on AWS analysis

The ability to analyze the cost of VMware Cloud on AWS by modeling VMware Cloud workload configurations, such as using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for storage

 No
Right-sizing, tenancy

The ability to make optimized recommendations across Amazon EC2 tenancies with Dedicated Hosts or Dedicated Instances

  • Dedicated Hosts

  • Dedicated Instances
Right-sizing, attached storage

The ability to use source storage profile data, utilization data, application characteristics, and AWS storage characteristics in order to right-size attached storage, such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), with proper types, such as SSD or HDD

 No
Choice of resource capacity allocation

The ability to select resource capacity allocation schemes (such as low or high resource utilization reservation) or fine-tune the utilization threshold (such as selecting a statistically lowered option 90th or 95th percentile) to reflect your conservative or optimistic resource allocation plan

 Yes
License analysis

The ability to provide default license mapping and options in AWS with cost comparisons of bringing existing licenses versus buying licenses from AWS

 Not available
TCO coverage, on premises

Cost estimates over 1 year and 3 years, respectively

  • Server and storage costs

  • Software, license, and support costs

  • Facility and maintenance costs (rack, infrastructure, power, and real estate)

  • Labor costs
TCO coverage, AWS

Cost estimates over 1 year and 3 years, respectively

  • EC2 and Reserved Instance costs

  • Storage costs

  • Database costs

  • Networking costs

  • License costs
TCO coverage, migration

Cost estimates

  • Training costs

  • Tool costs

  • Labor costs (customer, partner, and AWS resources)

  • AWS services costs
TCO data sovereignty support

The ability to store TCO analysis data on premises or at a designated location based on the data protection policies or government data sovereignty regulations

 No

1 Resource profile – CPU family (x86, RISC/PowerPC, ...), number of CPU cores, memory size, number of disks, storage size, IOPS, network interfaces, bandwidth

2 Resource utilizations – Time-series utilization data with peak, average or median, standard deviation, IOPS, throughput, percentile with sampling interval of 5 minutes and minimum sampling duration of 1 month

3 Application characteristics – CPU-intense, CPU-bursty, memory-intense, storage I/O-bound, or network-bound

4 Amazon EC2 characteristics