VMware exit & virtualization modernization

The moment

Hypervisor licensing has changed, and the renewal in front of you no longer matches the value. The instinct is a like-for-like swap to another hypervisor. The opportunity is bigger: consolidate VMs, containers, and AI workloads onto a single control plane you own, and stop renting your platform. The same move brings workloads back from public cloud, when the bill, the lock-in, or the need for tighter control over data and compliance has outgrown what it returns.

The approach

We lead the move onto a Kubernetes-based private cloud, with the workloads that should stay virtual running as VMs on the same control plane, alongside containers. Distributed storage on Ceph, the networking and security model, and the automation around them are designed to be operated by your team, not handed over as slideware.

• Assessment of the current estate, dependencies, and the realistic migration path
• Target architecture: one control plane for VMs, containers, and AI workloads
• Distributed storage and data migration on Ceph
• Security hardening, RBAC, and network policy built in from the start
• Runbooks and day-2 operations, run under SLA or handed over clean

What you get

Vendor lock-in and licensing overhead removed, a platform that unifies the workloads you run today with the AI workloads coming next, and a team that can operate it. We stay to run it, or hand it over with the runbooks to own it yourselves.

Why this practice

Eight years operating VMware in production, paired with the Kubernetes and distributed-storage depth to land the target platform, is a rare combination for exactly this move, and for standing behind the result once it is live.