Mastering Hypervisor Choices: Navigating Data Center Migrations with Confidence

I'm excited to present at UNC Cause on strategies to address challenges in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure market. This sector is currently in a chaotic state due to significant changes driven by leading providers. These developments are complicating budgetary planning for customers. Associated risks may persist for several years.

Given thorough consideration to migrating VMWare workloads in light of the current landscape is strongly encouraged. NWN Carousel offers VMware customers a range of migration strategies designed to maintain operational continuity. Selecting the right plan can minimize disruptions, ensure a seamless transition, and improve performance, reliability, and support.

What is Hyperconverged Infrastructure?

HCI is a combination of servers and storage into a distributed infrastructure platform with software to create flexible building blocks that replace legacy infrastructure consisting of separate servers, storage networks, and storage arrays. This HCI model is hosting virtual workloads in customers' data centers.

More specifically, HCI combines commodity data center server hardware with locally attached storage devices (spinning disk or flash) and is powered by a software layer to eliminate common pain points associated with legacy infrastructure.

What is a Hypervisor?

A hypervisor is software that allows for multiple server instances to be run on one physical system. This utilizes resource sharing to allow system to consume resources on an as-needed basis.

What Changed?

Broadcom acquired VMware and has been issuing price increases for ESXi, upwards of 150-250%. This is the most common virtualization platform in almost universal adoption in the private sector and government IT.

This increase is causing forecasting challenges with budgetary planning. This is the single most disruptive change to the market in over 20 years. There is no assurance prices will not continue to behave unpredictably in future renewal cycles.

Additionally, Cisco Systems discontinued the HyperFlex platform. This product uses Cisco servers and proprietary software acquired from Springpath to create a HCI platform that can run VMware or other hypervisors. Cisco now has more options available since partnering with Nutanix.

Together these events are influencing customers to make significant decisions about the data center technologies they employ.

How can we help our customers?

NWN Carousel can help with a plan. Gathering options and associated costs is the first step. We have experience with consulting customers who must adapt to market changes. We can provide support through the entire decision and action cycle. Nutanix and other options are available to replace ESXi as a hypervisor platform and Hyperflex systems. These market changes have created a financial need to act for many customers requiring eliminating or severely limiting VMware.

Our Intelligent Infrastructure engineers can assess, consult, design, sell, configure, and migrate customer workloads to Nutanix AHV or other platforms. This migration can save customers significant software costs while providing a better support model via NWN Carousel's Managed Services.

If you're ready for cloud migration, let us help you accelerate visibility and planning by using our professional services and trusted partners.

Why should customers act?

These plans are designed to limit risk to future increases by moving some or all workloads from ESXi. Customers who are on Cisco Hyperflex can plan now for a migration strategy. Let us help you assess your data center workload by providing a roadmap to a predictable migration plan.

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