Ready for Your Exit from VMware?

Leave with a clear view of whether moving from VMware to Hyper-V makes sense for your organisation, and what it would take.

Broadcom’s changes to VMware licensing have moved renewal costs to a level many organisations can no longer justify. Subscription bundles and higher minimum commitments have turned a routine renewal into a budget conversation.

For a lot of IT teams that has forced a question they had not planned to ask this year. Stay, or move?

Hyper-V is usually the first alternative on the list. The licensing is often already in place, and the platform sits alongside Windows Server, Azure and the rest of the Microsoft estate. Whether it is the right move for you depends on your workloads, your dependencies and how much change your team can absorb.

In this webinar, Northdoor’s infrastructure team walks through the business case, the assessment work that has to come first, and what the migration itself involves. You will also hear from the project manager who led The Salvation Army UK and Ireland’s move of more than 350 virtual machines from VMware to Hyper-V in 16 weeks.

What you will learn

• Where the licensing, infrastructure and operational savings actually come from
• How to assess a VMware estate: workloads, dependencies, storage, networking and applications
• What a migration looks like phase by phase, from discovery and planning through to validation and optimisation
• The technical, operational and business risks, and how to mitigate them
• VMware to Hyper-V compatibility, VM conversion, high availability, disaster recovery and management
• How Hyper-V fits with Windows Server, Azure and your existing Microsoft investments

Who should attend

IT directors, infrastructure managers, virtualisation and platform teams, and the budget holders who will sign off the next VMware renewal.

Speakers

John Burton, Lead Project Manager, The Salvation Army

John has 35 years in IT, 15 of them delivering technology projects and programmes across a range of sectors. He was Lead Project Manager at The Salvation Army UK and Ireland for its migration from VMware to Hyper-V, moving more than 350 virtual machines in 16 weeks. He joins this session to talk about how that ran in practice.

Richard Hartill, Partner and Client Manager, Northdoor plc

Richard Hartill is a Partner and Client Manager at Northdoor, where he has spent 16 of his 22 years in B2B technology. He works with organisations on how their data is stored, secured and put to use, drawing on Northdoor’s technical practices and partner network. Most of his time goes on infrastructure and application decisions that have a budget attached.

Matthew Mylchreest, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Northdoor plc

Matthew Mylchreest is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with over 20 years designing and implementing IT infrastructure across SMB and enterprise environments. He specialises in Microsoft technologies and virtualisation, and has worked extensively across both VMware and Hyper-V. He covers the full lifecycle, from architecture and design through to migration, optimisation and support, which is the ground this session covers.

Everyone who attends is eligible for a complimentary Hypervisor Migration Assessment.

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