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Ready for your exit from VMware?

Attendees will leave the webinar with a clearer understanding of whether migrating from VMware by Broadcom to Hyper-V makes sense for their organisation, what the migration would involve, and how to approach it safely.

Recorded Thursday 1 October 2026

Guest speaker John Burton from The Salvation Army·Complimentary Hypervisor Migration Assessment·Migration methodology PDF
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The challenge

Broadcom VMware is now unaffordable for many organisations

This webinar helps IT budget holders and infrastructure teams understand the business case for moving from VMware to Hyper-V, assess your organisation’s readiness, identify the key migration risks and leave with a practical roadmap for planning your VMware exit.

A clear business case

Understand the potential licensing, infrastructure and operational cost benefits of moving to Hyper-V.

Risk awareness

Identify common technical, operational and business risks and how to mitigate them.

A basis for decision-making

Leave with the information needed to determine whether you should proceed, investigate further, or conduct a formal VMware-to-Hyper-V assessment.

What the webinar covers

What you will gain

Learn how to reduce virtualisation costs, simplify infrastructure and build a more strategic, secure and resilient Microsoft-aligned platform with Hyper-V.

Real world case study

Learn first hand how The Salvation Army migrated over 300 VMs from VMware to Hyper-V within 16 weeks.

Migration readiness insight

Learn how to assess a VMware estate, including workloads, dependencies, storage, networking and applications.

A practical migration roadmap

Understand the key phases from discovery and planning through migration, validation and optimisation.

Technical guidance

Understand VMware-to-Hyper-V compatibility, VM conversion, high availability, disaster recovery and management considerations

Microsoft ecosystem insight

See how Hyper-V can fit with Windows Server, Azure and existing Microsoft investments.

Professional-services perspective

Understand where specialist expertise can accelerate migration, reduce risk and avoid common pitfalls.

The proof

It has been done at scale

Learn first hand how The Salvation Army migrated over 300 VMs from VMware to Hyper-V within 16 weeks

Speakers

John Burton Lead Project Manager, The Salvation Army

John has 35 years of IT experience, with 15 years delivering technology projects and programmes across varying sectors and organisations. John was the Lead Project Manager at The Salvation Army UK & Ireland for the migration of the Salvation Army’s entire VMware estate to Hyper-V, earlier this year.

Richard Hartill Partner & Client Manager, Northdoor

Richard has over 22 years of B2B industry experience and has worked for Northdoor for 16 years as a Partner and Client Manager. Via Northdoor’s internal technology practices and external partner network, Richard helps organisations ensure that their data is effectively and efficiently stored, secured, and enabled to be used most effectively via modern infrastructure and applications to deliver better services to end users.

Matthew Mylchreest Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Northdoor

Matthew is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with over 20 years’ experience designing and implementing IT infrastructure across SMB and enterprise environments. Matthew specialises in Microsoft technologies and virtualisation, with extensive experience across VMware and Hyper-V. He works across the full infrastructure lifecycle, from architecture and design through to implementation, migration, optimisation and support.

Download the full methodology PDF

Cut VMware licensing costs with a proven Hyper-V migration strategy

You’ll receive a structured, experience-backed approach that protects your business during cutover and reduces VMware licensing costs immediately after.

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