Post-Broadcom · Virtualization

VMware exit & migration.
Planned, costed, executed.

Broadcom’s licensing changes turned a routine VMware renewal into a strategic decision. We give organisations in Calgary, across Alberta, and throughout Canada and the US an independent, engineer-led read on the real options — stay and renew, or migrate to Nutanix, Proxmox, Hyper-V, or cloud — backed by total-cost-of-ownership and exit-cost numbers, not a vendor pitch.

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Why now

The renewal stopped being routine.

Since Broadcom acquired VMware, perpetual licences are gone, products are bundled into larger subscription tiers, and many organisations have seen their virtualization bill rise several-fold at renewal. With VMware Cloud Foundation migrations and support timelines forcing decisions through 2026 and into 2027, the choice you make this renewal cycle sets your infrastructure cost base for years. Made under deadline pressure, without independent numbers, it is easy to get expensively wrong — in either direction.

Sometimes the right answer is to renew and buy time. Sometimes it is to move. We deploy, resell, and support every platform on this list — so we’re not talking our book for one of them. Every vendor has strengths and trade-offs; the recommendation follows your environment and your numbers, not the product we happen to sell.

What the review delivers

A decision you can defend to the board.

VMware Exit & TCO Review

Fixed scope

An architect-led assessment of what leaving — or keeping — VMware actually costs you, delivered as a written report with the numbers behind every recommendation.

  • Current-state inventory — hosts, cores, workloads, VMware editions and true licensing exposure at renewal
  • Side-by-side TCO model: renew VMware vs Nutanix vs Proxmox vs Hyper-V/Azure Local vs cloud, over 3–5 years
  • Exit-cost and migration-effort estimate for each viable destination — not just the sticker price
  • Risk, downtime, and cutover analysis — what can move live, what needs a window, what breaks
  • A ranked recommendation with the rationale, sized to your team’s capacity to operate it afterward

Best for: any organisation facing a VMware renewal in the next 12–18 months that wants independent numbers before committing — whether the likely answer is stay or go.

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Where you can land

We plan the exit vendor-neutral.

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Nutanix

  • AHV hypervisor and hyper-converged (HCI) architecture
  • Closest operational fit for many VMware estates; strong for VDI and mixed workloads
  • We have designed and run HCI and stretched-cluster deployments in production
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Proxmox VE

  • Open-source KVM virtualization — no per-core licensing tax
  • Fast-growing VMware destination for cost-sensitive and lean environments
  • We assess whether your team can realistically operate it day-two
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Hyper-V / Azure Local

  • Microsoft-native virtualization, on-prem or hybrid
  • Often the pragmatic path for Microsoft-heavy and Azure-committed shops
  • Licensing and integration modelled against your existing agreements
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Public cloud

  • Re-host or re-platform selected workloads to AWS or Azure
  • Right for some workloads — rarely for all; we say which
  • Landing-zone, network, and egress-cost realities modelled up front

Why IITCON

Independent, and we’ve done the migration.

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Multi-vendor by design

  • We’re an MSP/MSSP and integrator — certified and partnered across VMware, Nutanix, Microsoft and more, and we resell, deploy, and support all of them. Every platform has strengths and limits; our certifications prove the range, and the read you get fits your environment rather than the one product we sell.
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Engineers who’ve executed

  • Our team has designed, deployed, and live-migrated virtualization at the scale of government and critical-infrastructure workloads — including zero-downtime stretched-cluster migrations.
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Local, and across North America

  • Based in Calgary, Alberta, working remote-first across Canada and the United States, on-site when the cutover needs hands in the rack.

Get the numbers before the renewal deadline.

Tell us your VMware footprint and renewal timeline. We’ll scope a fixed-price exit review and give you a defensible decision — stay or go.

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