While rehosting typically consists of a virtual machine to virtual machine type migration, re-platforming replaces part or all of an application with a virtual machine alternative.
Re-platforming does not always require modifying the application code, but it does assume that some of the components of the application are not virtual machines. This re-platforming process may result in the end state for an application, or it may be an intermediate step within the modernization continuum. There are several common re-platforming patterns easily used in VMware Cloud environments.
