:: VMWARE EXIT · TCO FIRST
Renew or exit. Decide with your inventory in hand.
Broadcom's licensing changes have turned VMware renewal into a business decision. We compare the paths open to you using your real environment and deliver the plan for the one you choose.
Paths we compare
- Stay on VMware. Renewal cost under the new licensing model, at your volume.
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine (OVE). Workloads stay in VMs, on a platform that also runs containers.
- Hyper-V. For estates already invested in the Microsoft environment.
- Public Cloud. Where elasticity and global reach outweigh the cost of running in place.
You receive
- A TCO report for each path: licensing, infrastructure, migration and operations.
- A phased migration plan: order, dependencies, windows, go/no-go and rollback criteria, cost and timeline per wave.
What we need from you: Read access to vCenter or an inventory export, and a conversation with the people who run the estate
How it works
01
Inventory.
We collect VMs, hosts, storage, network and licences and map dependencies.
02
Comparison.
We model the TCO of each path and its risks.
03
Plan.
We design the waves for the chosen path and present to infrastructure and finance together.
04
Execution, if it makes sense.
The same team that ran the assessment carries out the migration.
:: ENGINEERING DECISION
Brazilian govtech, Hyper-V to Red Hat OVE
THE DECISION
Rather than add resources to an environment running at its limit, replace the virtualisation layer and design observability in from the start.
THE RESULT
Database volumes from 6 to 9 Gb/s on non-sequential writes.
6 → 9 Gb/s
Frequently asked questions
- Does the assessment commit us to migrating with you?
No. The report is yours and also supports a renewal negotiation. - Do we need downtime for the inventory?
No. Collection is read-only. - What does it cost?
Scope and price are fixed after the first conversation, based on the size of the inventory.