Partner capability
Virtualization and migration, delivered under your brand
VMware repricing turned a quiet renewal into an infrastructure project for half your client base. These migrations are won or lost in the planning: which platform, which waves, which maintenance windows. We have moved estates in the hundreds of VMs and we plan them so the cutover is a scheduled event, not a gamble.
- VMware exits to Azure Local, Hyper-V, Proxmox, or Nutanix
- 300+ VMs and 120 TB moved in a single wave-planned engagement
- Costed platform comparison before the project is proposed
- Per-VM validation before any source system is retired
- Hyper-converged builds on SimpliVity, dHCI, and Storage Spaces Direct
- SAN and array migrations with minimal-downtime cutover
What we deliver
VMware exit planning
Choosing the destination before choosing the project, because the wrong target platform is a two-year mistake.
- Target platform evaluation — Azure Local, Hyper-V, Proxmox, or Nutanix
- Licensing, hardware, and operational cost modeling for each option
- Workload inventory with dependency mapping and criticality tiering
- Migration wave plan grouping VMs by risk and business function
- Honest assessment of whether staying on VMware is the cheaper answer
Hypervisor migration at scale
Executed in waves, inside maintenance windows, with every workload validated before the source is retired.
- Replication appliance deployment and throughput management against the dataset
- Test migrations across a representative set of every workload type
- Non-production wave first, then tier two and three, then business-critical
- Per-VM post-migration validation — boot, connectivity, application services
- Source decommissioning only after confirmed production acceptance
Cluster and platform builds
New infrastructure designed for the availability the client is actually paying for.
- Hyper-V failover cluster and Storage Spaces Direct design and build
- Proxmox VE cluster deployment with Ceph or ZFS storage
- Nutanix and HPE SimpliVity deployment and expansion
- HPE dHCI and hyper-converged platform builds
- Cluster validation, failover testing, and documented operational limits
Storage and hardware transitions
The migrations underneath the migration, which is usually where the surprises live.
- SAN and NAS migrations with minimal-downtime cutover planning
- HPE 3PAR, Nimble, MSA, and NetApp array transitions
- Datastore restructuring, LUN presentation, and multipath validation
- Firmware and driver lifecycle remediation before a migration starts
- Legacy platform decommissioning with data destruction evidence
Platforms we work in
Named platforms, not categories — so you can tell at a glance whether we already know your environment.
- Hypervisors
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- VMware vSphere
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Proxmox VE
- Nutanix AHV
- Azure Local
- Hyper-converged
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- HPE SimpliVity
- HPE dHCI
- Nutanix
- Storage Spaces Direct
- VMware vSAN
- Migration tooling
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- Azure Migrate
- Veeam Instant Recovery
- Starwind V2V
- vMotion
- Storage vMotion
- Storage arrays
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- HPE 3PAR
- HPE Nimble
- HPE MSA
- NetApp
- Dell EMC
- Servers
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- HPE ProLiant DL380
- HPE ProLiant DL385
- Dell PowerEdge
- Cisco UCS
How it runs
From first call to sign-off
Every engagement is governed by a written statement of work naming deliverables, assumptions, and who is responsible for what.
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Assessment and platform decision
Workload inventory, dependency mapping, and a costed comparison of target platforms. Sometimes the recommendation is to stay put.
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Design document and wave plan
Cluster architecture, network design, and a migration wave plan grouping workloads by criticality — written down before anything moves.
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Pilot and test migrations
A representative VM from every workload type moves first. Issues surface on dev, not on the finance system at month end.
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Production waves and hypercare
Planned cutovers inside agreed windows, per-VM validation, performance benchmarking against pre-migration baselines, then a defined hypercare period.
Questions
What people ask
Virtualization and migration, delivered under your brand — questions
Azure Local, Hyper-V, or Proxmox — which should we propose?
It depends on the client, and the honest answer is worth more than a fast one. Azure Local suits Microsoft-centric clients who want hybrid management through Arc and can fund a hardware refresh. Hyper-V suits clients who already own Windows Datacenter licensing. Proxmox suits cost-driven clients with Linux-comfortable staff and no Microsoft dependency. We will model all three before you put a number in front of anyone.
How do you avoid losing a workload in a large migration?
Inventory reconciliation at both ends. Every VM is accounted for before the wave, validated individually after it — boot, network reachability, and application service verification — and source systems are only decommissioned after the client confirms production acceptance. The discipline is unglamorous and it is the whole job.
Can you work around a school calendar or a production shutdown?
Routinely. Education clients get migration activity scheduled around academic calendar blackout periods; manufacturing clients get plant shutdown windows. Wave planning exists precisely so the schedule can bend around the business instead of the other way around.
What if the hardware was bought by a different partner?
Not a problem — it is the normal case. We regularly deliver professional services on top of equipment a VAR or another partner sold, and we have no interest in displacing that relationship. If you would rather not carry the procurement yourself we can supply the hardware as an HPE partner, but that is your choice and we invoice you, never your client.
Do you handle the storage migration too?
Yes, and it is frequently where the real risk sits. SAN and NAS transitions, array replacements, datastore restructuring, and multipath validation are all in scope. Firmware and driver remediation usually needs to happen before a migration, not during it.
Facing a VMware renewal you cannot defend
Send us the workload count and the current platform. We will model the realistic alternatives before you take a recommendation to the client.