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Hello All , <br />
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I was wondering if anyone has experience transferring virtual machines from a private hosted vmware 5 esx environment to AWS . Do you have a migration roadmap you can share and / or supporting documents and any comments or stories you wish to share.
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Hello All , 

I was wondering if anyone has experience transferring virtual machines from a private hosted vmware 5 esx environment to AWS . Do you have a migration roadmap you can share and / or supporting documents and any comments or stories you wish to share.

Transfer virtual machines from private vmware environment to AWS

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, that make up a cloud-computing platform  operated from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2", and Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as "S3". Other services include Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Route 53 (a DNS web service),  provides a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), storage, database, deployment and application services.