A virtualization player claims to have solved a VMware migration loophole.

So-called “cloud cloning” company FluidCloud said its vHOP (VM Hopping Engine) is a response to Broadcom’s recent takedown of the Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) migration tool. The vHOP platform is available through Nutanix and all the hyperscale cloud platforms, and “maps an entire VMware estate, translates NSX firewall policy and generates executable Terraform for the target cloud,” without using VDDK and before any workload data is migrated

The vHOP service produces the target framework, firewall migration plan, and infrastructure code needed to begin a VMware exit. FluidCloud CEO Sharad Kumar noted that copying disks is the easier part of such exits.

“The disk copy was rarely what held these projects up,” Kumar explained. “It’s the firewall rules, the security groups, and the dependencies nobody wrote down that push a migration past the renewal date. vHOP gets those mapped and turned into Terraform in three days, so a team knows what it’s actually moving before it picks a tool to copy the disks.”

FluidCloud is not alone in its proposition, with similar agentless solutions available from Platform9, OpenNebula, and Sardina Systems. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft, meanwhile, offer agent-based alternatives.