Service
VMware Virtualization
vSphere design, migration, and upgrades — plus honest guidance on what Broadcom's licensing changes mean for your renewal.
The problem
Virtualization stopped being the interesting problem and became the foundation everything else sits on. When the cluster is wrong, everything above it is wrong.
Broadcom's acquisition of VMware changed the licensing math for a lot of organizations, and renewal quotes have been landing well above what teams budgeted. That decision deserves analysis, not a reflexive renewal.
What's included
- vSphere cluster design, sizing, and deployment
- Physical-to-virtual and cross-platform migrations
- vCenter upgrades and lifecycle management
- High availability, DRS, and vMotion configuration
- Shared storage design (SAN, iSCSI, vSAN) with Dell and HPE arrays
- Backup and disaster recovery integration with tested restores
- Licensing review and alternative-platform analysis at renewal
- VDI design for remote and shift-based workforces
How we work
Assess, design, implement, support
- 01
Assess
We document what you actually have — not what the last as-built says you have.
- 02
Design
A written design with the reasoning behind each decision, priced before work starts.
- 03
Implement
Phased cutovers with rollback plans. No single high-risk night.
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Support
Documentation, knowledge transfer, and ongoing support at whatever level you need.
Virtualization: common questions
What do Broadcom's VMware licensing changes mean for us?
Perpetual licenses were discontinued in favor of subscription bundles, and many smaller customers saw significant renewal increases. Whether to absorb it, restructure the bundle, or migrate to Hyper-V, Proxmox, or public cloud depends on your workload profile. We build the cost comparison before your renewal date, not after.
How do you migrate without downtime?
Most workloads migrate live with vMotion or with replication and a short cutover window. Genuinely zero-downtime is achievable for clustered applications; for everything else we schedule a brief, tested window rather than promising magic.
Do we still need physical servers?
Yes, virtualization consolidates workloads onto fewer physical hosts rather than eliminating them. Sizing those hosts correctly — CPU, memory, and storage headroom for failure scenarios — is most of the design work.
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