For many businesses, the potential benefits of merging with the fast lane of AI adoption and integration are clear—but they know that if they try to put the operational pedal to the metal, their existing server infrastructure won’t be able to keep the pace. Instead, they’ll need new hardware that's up to the task—servers that can efficiently zip through resource-intensive workloads. Dell PowerEdge R7725 servers powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors have the computing power and energy efficiency to fuel pace-setting innovation by enabling companies to run modern data-heavy workloads—and run them on fewer servers, unlocking significant TCO savings down the road. While an upgrade to new Dell PowerEdge and AMD EPYC platforms could be appealing, the prospect of migrating VMs from Intel-powered servers to AMD-powered systems can raise concerns about operational continuity, data integrity, and downtime. VMware Architecture Migration Tool (VAMT) can alleviate those concerns by helping administrators easily execute cross-architecture migrations to new server infrastructure in a predictable way that lowers risk.
To evaluate the potential benefits of using VAMT for such cross-architecture migrations, we documented our experiences using VAMT in three migration scenarios in a VMware-based environment—single VM migrations, batch migrations, and scheduled migrations. We started each scenario with VMs on a five-year-old Intel Xeon processor-based HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 server running VMware vSphere 8. We then migrated those VMs to a modern Dell PowerEdge R7725 server with AMD EPYC 9175F processors running vSphere 9. We also tested VAMT’s migration rollback capabilities and performed integrity validations to confirm post-migration workload consistency.
We found that VAMT simplified migration in the scenarios we tested while preserving workload integrity and reducing operational risk. Additionally, we found that VAMT can accelerate cross-architecture migrations. In one scenario, we migrated a batch of three VMs in less than 15 minutes. We also validated post-migration checks and rollback capability, confirming that pre- and post-migration VMs matched.
In previous studies, we demonstrated the potential benefits of cross-architecture upgrades to Dell PowerEdge R7725 servers with AMD EPYC processors, such as improved performance and up to 64 percent lower five-year costs. VAMT makes it easier for administrators to capture those gains by executing VM migrations from multiple older servers to fewer new systems in a controlled, repeatable way—reducing operational risk and supporting workload modernization goals.
To learn more about our VMware Architecture Migration Tool (VAMT) evaluation tests, check out the executive summary and report below.
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