Phased exit from a proprietary hypervisor
An entity with several hundred virtual machines needs to reduce licensing exposure without disrupting public services.
- No large downtime windows for citizen-facing systems
- Incomplete inventory and dependency mapping
- A documented rollback path for every wave
- Discovery of clusters, hosts, VMs, storage and dependencies
- Wave planning by application and tolerance for downtime
- Warm migration to keep data seeding while the source VM runs
- Migration executed in planned waves
- Verified boot and application checks per wave
- Defined rollback criteria before each cutover
