FORGEWERX | PRIVATE CLOUD MIGRATION BRIEF
Your cloud. Your rules.

Use this brief to prepare for an infrastructure planning conversation.
Keep sensitive diagrams and access details in your approved secure systems.

1. YOUR STARTING POINT
Current platforms (VMware, AWS, GCP, other):
Approximate number of VMs and container/Kubernetes workloads:
Operating systems and business-critical applications:
Storage capacity, growth, and performance requirements:
Existing servers, storage, and networking to assess for reuse:

2. WHY CHANGE?
Primary concern (licensing, cost predictability, control, capacity, operations):
Renewal dates or other deadlines:
What is working well today?
What must improve?

3. WORKLOAD DEPENDENCIES
Application and database dependencies:
Identity, DNS, networking, firewall, and IP requirements:
AWS/GCP managed services that need to remain or be replaced:
Software licensing or support restrictions:

4. THE DESTINATION
Preferred locations (on premises, colocation, connected public cloud):
Virtual machine and Kubernetes requirements:
Ceph interfaces needed (block, file, object):
GPU model compatibility, memory, training/inference, and data needs:
Connectivity and geographic requirements:

5. MIGRATION AND RECOVERY
Acceptable cutover windows:
Recovery time objective (how long an outage can last):
Recovery point objective (how much recent data can be lost):
Backup retention and independent-copy requirements:
Pilot workloads, acceptance checks, and rollback criteria:

6. ONGOING OPERATIONS
Owners for monitoring, patching, upgrades, backup, and incident response:
Team skills, documentation, and training requirements:
Support coverage and escalation expectations:
Cost model: hardware, facilities, networking, migration, licensing, support,
operations, backups, and retained public cloud services.

DISCOVERY OUTPUTS TO AGREE
- Workload inventory and dependency map
- Target architecture and placement decisions
- Compatibility findings and cost model
- Pilot scope and measurable acceptance criteria
- Migration waves, recovery plan, and operating responsibilities

This brief is a planning aid. Scope, compatibility, cost, and service terms
are defined for each engagement.