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Virtualisation

Migrating away from VMware

Options for companies reviewing their virtualisation: moving machines to our managed cloud or rethinking the platform on owned hardware, with inventory and testing before touching production.

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The starting point

Licensing changes in the virtualisation market have led many companies to review contracts and costs. The decision is not only financial: it affects backup, recovery, hardware and who operates the platform.

What we usually find

  • Renewals on terms very different from those signed years ago.
  • Legacy virtual machines whose purpose nobody remembers.
  • Backup and replication tools tied to the current platform.
  • The need to keep production running throughout the process.

Which companies it fits

Companies with on-premises virtual environments considering hardware renewal, a hypervisor change or a move to managed cloud.

We review your current platform and present the possible scenarios with their real implications.

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What the solution includes

  • Inventory and dependencies

    Machines, resources, networks, applications and relationships between servers.

  • Scenario comparison

    Stay, renew on-premises or migrate to our cloud, with the operational implications of each option.

  • Phased migration

    Machine groups by criticality, with agreed windows and validation after each phase.

  • Backup and recovery revisited

    Backup is redefined on the target platform and restores are tested.

How it is deployed

  1. 1Survey of the current environment and active contracts.
  2. 2Target design and validation criteria.
  3. 3Migration test with non-critical machines.
  4. 4Phased migration with a documented rollback plan.
  5. 5Operation and monitoring of the new platform.

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Frequently asked questions

Does everything have to move at once?
No. Work proceeds in machine groups, starting with the least critical ones to validate the procedure.
Can we keep our current physical servers?
In many cases yes, if the hardware is under warranty and meets requirements. This is assessed during the inventory.
What happens to backups during migration?
The source backup is kept until the target has been validated and tested.
Can we simply stay on VMware?
That is a valid conclusion too. The point of the analysis is to decide with data, not to force a change.

Request a virtualisation review

We review your current platform and present the possible scenarios with their real implications.

Request a virtualisation review