Has anyone actually left VMware for good? It's one of the most common questions in IT forums right now, and the honest answer is yes. Some teams have moved a handful of VMs. Others have moved hundreds of sites. What they share is a clear VMware exit strategy: a plan for what moves, when it moves, and where it [...]
Yes, in many cases you can. If your new platform supports the servers you already own, you can migrate off VMware without a replacing servers or undergoing a hardware refresh. That frees you to buy new hardware when pricing and real capacity needs say so, not when a migration deadline does. However, you might be thinking that, the catch [...]
Picture two hypothetical teams facing the same VMware migration. One is given two years. The other is given a few months. Both can convert VMs at the same speed, yet their experiences look nothing alike. The first team spends its time where migrations actually get hard, like getting application owners to test and replacing the monitoring they didn't realize [...]
You might be planning a VMware migration, or a bigger IT transformation project. However, say your organization operates dozens, maybe hundreds, of remote sites, and at each one sits a server that's still well within its supported lifecycle, still performing exactly as it should, with plenty of useful life left. That single detail, easy to overlook in the middle of [...]