What's new with BlueXP workload factory for VMware
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Learn what's new with the VMware migration advisor component of workload factory.
3 August 2025
Improved migration advisor support for Amazon Elastic VMWare Service
The Amazon Elastic VMware Service migration advisor now supports automatic deployment and mounting of your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP filesystem. This enables you to begin deploying your VMs on FSx for ONTAP filesytems when migration to the Amazon EVS environment is complete.
Calculate cost savings of migrating to Amazon Elastic VMware Service
You can now explore the potential savings for migrating your VMware workloads to Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS). The savings calculator enables you to compare costs of using Amazon EVS with and without Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as underlying storage. The calculator displays potential savings in real-time as you adjust characteristics of your environment.
29 June 2025
Introducing migration advisor support for Amazon Elastic VMWare Service
BlueXP workload factory for VMware now supports Amazon Elastic VMware Service. You can rapidly migrate your on-premises VMware workloads to Amazon Elastic VMware Service using the migration advisor, optimizing cost and enabling more control over your VMware environment without needing to refactor or re-platform your applications.
4 May 2025
Amazon EC2 migration advisor improvements
This release of BlueXP workload factory for VMware features the following improvement to the Amazon EC2 migration advisor experience:
NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights as a data source: Workload factory now connects directly with NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights to gather VMWare deployment information when you use the EC2 migration advisor data collector.
Updated permissions terminology
The workload factory user interface and documentation now use "read-only" to refer to read permissions and "read/write" to refer to automate permissions.
30 March 2025
Amazon EC2 migration advisor improvements
This release of BlueXP workload factory for VMware features several improvements to the Amazon EC2 migration advisor experience:
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Enhanced volume assignment guidance: The volume assignment information in the EC2 migration advisor "Classify" and "Package" steps features enhanced readability and usability. More useful information is displayed about each volume, enabling you to better identify volumes and determine how to assign them.
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Data collector script efficiency improvements: The EC2 migration advisor data collector script optimizes CPU usage when collecting data for smaller VM deployments.
2 March 2025
Amazon EC2 migration advisor improvements
This release of BlueXP workload factory for VMware features several improvements to the Amazon EC2 migration advisor experience:
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Estimated instance type: Migration advisor can now examine requirements of your environment and provide an estimated Amazon EC2 instance type for each VM. You can choose to include the estimated instance type for each VM during the Scope step of the migration advisor.
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Ability to recommend Amazon EBS volumes: The migration advisor can now recommend migrating data volumes to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) instead of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP due to specific capacity or performance needs of a certain region.
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Enhanced filesystem auto assignment: Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP filesystem assignment has been improved to better optimize cost and minimize throughput.
5 January 2025
Amazon EC2 migration advisor improvements
This release of BlueXP workload factory for VMware features several improvements to the migration advisor experience:
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Save or download a migration plan: You can now save or download a migration plan, and load the migration plan to populate the migration advisor. When you save a migration plan, the plan is saved with your workload factory account.
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Improved VM selection: BlueXP workload factory for VMware now supports filtering and searching the list of VMs that you want to include in your migration deployment.
1 December 2024
Amazon EC2 migration advisor improvements
This release of BlueXP workload factory for VMware features several improvements to the migration advisor experience:
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Data collection: BlueXP workload factory for VMware supports the ability to collect data for a specific time period when you use the migration advisor.
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VM selection: BlueXP workload factory for VMware now supports selecting VMs that you want to include in your migration deployment.
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Quick vs. Advanced experience: When you use the migration advisor, you can now choose a quick migration experience, using RVtools, or the advanced experience, which uses the migration advisor data collector.
3 November 2024
VMware migration advisor data reduction ratio help
This release of Workload Factory for VMware features a data reduction ratio assistant. The data reduction ratio assistant helps you decide which ratio is best for your VMware inventory and storage estate when preparing for AWS cloud onboarding.
19 September 2024
VMware migration advisor enhancements
This release of workload factory for VMware features functionality and stability enhancements as well as the ability to import and export migration plans when using the VMware migration advisor.
1 September 2024
Migrate to Amazon EC2
Workload factory for VMware now supports migration to Amazon EC2 using the VMware migration advisor.
7 July 2024
Initial release of workload factory for VMware
The initial release includes the capability to use the VMware migration advisor to analyze your current virtual machine configurations in on-premises vSphere environments and generate a plan to deploy recommended VM layouts to VMware Cloud on AWS and use customized Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems as external datastores.