Your VMware strategy, on your terms.
Move off VMware entirely, or run Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization beside it and shrink what you license. Either way: VMs and containers on one platform, predictable licensing, phased cutover. No rewrite.
Renewals aren't what they were.
Since the Broadcom acquisition, the licensing model changed under everyone's feet. The math that justified staying on VMware often no longer holds.
Subscription-only
Perpetual licenses are gone. Everything moved to bundled subscriptions with recurring cost.
Bundled SKUs
Smaller estates now pay for capability tiers they'll never use — with minimum core counts on top.
Renewal shock
Budgets set years ago no longer cover the same footprint. Finance wants options, not another quote.
Migrate, or rebalance. Most estates land somewhere in between.
You don't have to leave VMware all at once to stop overpaying for it. We'll model both paths against your estate and your renewal date, then run whichever one you choose.
Move off VMware.
Migrate your estate onto OpenShift Virtualization in planned waves, then retire vSphere and its licensing. One platform, one operating model, no renewal to dread.
- ✓Wave-based migration with the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization
- ✓VMs and containers side by side
- ✓vSphere decommissioned, licensing retired
- ✓Day-two operations run by us or handed over
Shrink your VMware footprint.
Stand up OpenShift Virtualization beside vSphere and move the workloads where it pays first. License fewer cores at your next renewal and keep VMware only for what still belongs there.
- ✓Workload-by-workload placement — no big-bang cutover
- ✓Fewer licensed cores at renewal
- ✓One GitOps workflow across both platforms
- ✓A clear path to finish the move later — or not
Your VMs, on a platform you own.
One platform
Run VMs and containers side by side on OpenShift — no separate hypervisor to license and staff.
Predictable licensing
Red Hat subscription pricing you can forecast, instead of post-Broadcom renewal shock.
Keep your VMs
Lift existing virtual machines with their disks intact. No application rewrite required.
Modernize on your timeline
Containerize workloads later, when it makes sense — not as a condition of leaving VMware.
Enterprise support
Backed by Red Hat and Cornerstone: Day-2 operations, patching, and escalation covered.
GitOps-native
Manage VMs declaratively with the same Argo/Flux workflows as the rest of your platform.
Built with the right partners.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
The target platform. VMs and containers on one Kubernetes foundation, migrated with the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization.
Cornerstone
We run the assessment, pilot, migration waves, and Day-2 handover — and stay accountable for the outcome.
A phased path, whichever you choose.
Assess & inventory
We map your vSphere estate — VMs, storage, networking, dependencies — and model the cost of staying, rebalancing, or moving to OpenShift.
Pilot migration
We migrate a representative workload with the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization and validate performance.
Migrate in waves
Planned migration waves with rollback at every step. No big-bang cutover, no surprise downtime.
Retire or right-size
Decommission vSphere — or shrink it to what still belongs there — hand over runbooks, and keep cost and governance in check after cutover.
Ready to ship like the AI era demands?
Escaping VMware or putting AI to work in your pipeline — a senior engineer will scope it with you. No sales sequence.