Your VMware renewal went up. See what leaving costs.
We map your VMware estate and give you a written plan: what it costs to stay, what it costs to leave, and what a migration would involve. Fixed scope, fixed price, ten working days.
Proxmox is the alternative we specialise in. Whether it is the right one for you is what the assessment establishes.
Broadcom changed VMware licensing, and the new minimums fall hardest on small clusters. Teams running three or four hosts are receiving quotes several times higher than last year, for the same servers they already own. Enterprise consulting models are often uneconomical at that size, which leaves the renewal quote and no independent view of the alternative.
What you get
What you actually have
Hosts, VMs, storage, networking and what depends on what — as it is today, not as it was documented.
What moves, what does not
Every workload sorted, with the reason behind each call.
The order to do it in
Stage by stage, and how long each stage takes anything offline.
What it costs to stay, and to move
Both numbers, with the working shown, so you can put them side by side.
What could go wrong
Each risk written down, with how to handle it.
What you can do yourselves
And the parts where you would want help.
Our team's background covers large-scale Unix and Linux infrastructure at the BBC, banking security at Eurobank, and independent infrastructure and security audit work since 2005. You work directly with the technical team throughout, with no account-manager handoffs.
We sell no licences and take no vendor commission. Recommendations are based on what makes technical and financial sense for your estate — including staying where you are, if that is the answer.