Presented herein are embodiments for automating analytics-based migration of virtual machine optimization tool settings to different hypervisor environments. Currently, no marketplace workload migration utilities have previously dealt with this scenario. In one or more embodiments, a system gathers data and uses analytics on the data to devise one or more translation/correlation rules or models for virtual machine migration. In one or more embodiments, using historical manually settings, correlations can be determined. Given data about a source guest operating system (OS) tool settings, one or more translation/correlation models may be used to facilitate the translation of guest OS optimization tool settings from the source environment to the destination environment so that migrated virtual machine functions the same as or nearly the same as it did on the source hypervisor.