By Rodos
Inspired by Steve Jins "Top 10 Best Practices Architecting Applications for VMware Cloud" here is the list of five best practices for preparing your "existing workloads" for VMware vCloud. After all, its going to take time and money to re-architect your applications and you may want to gain some of the benefits of cloud from your existing systems.
Here is what you can do.
VirtualiseYes, your migration is going to be easier if its already a virtual machine. A V2C (Virtual to Cloud) is going to be a simpler transition that an P2C (Physical to Cloud). [..]