Tier 1 · Telecom and hybrid infrastructure
VMware and vSAN modernization and migration
Hypervisor licensing and storage performance usually drive the decision. We optimize production VMware/vSAN estates and plan phased migrations to OpenShift Virtualization, with workload-specific cutover windows, recovery checks and data-consistency gates.
2-week Assessment Sprint, $14,500 fixed · 100% credited toward an annual retainer or managed agreement signed within 30 days
Consolidation and platform exits stall when VM-to-VM dependencies are missing, SPBM policy changes trigger unexpected vSAN resynchronization, or legacy appliances depend on specific L2 adjacency and storage latency. Moving a VM does not establish application readiness, backup coverage or a safe route back after new writes reach the target.
Audit vCenter clusters, host/socket/core inventory, vSAN OSA/ESA architecture and workload I/O. Right-size VMs, model SPBM resilience and resync capacity, and compare consolidation options against your actual license entitlements and application headroom.
Build side-by-side VMware-to-KubeVirt migration plans with Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV). Validate guest support, storage mappings, VLAN/network attachment and monitoring. Use supported cold or warm migration paths and schedule final cutover with application owners.
Classify applications for rehost, replatform, refactor or retirement. Use Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV) for supported KVM conversion; validate routing, DNS, security and storage before each wave.
Automate storage, backup and network pre-checks. Define acceptance gates, source shutdown, final synchronization and recovery authority. Rehearse failback with explicit data-reconciliation rules once target writes begin.
MTV warm migration includes a final cutover outage. We validate the applicable source/target path, maintenance window and recovery procedure; instant failback, unchanged IP addresses and automatic license savings are not guaranteed.
Separate management, workload migration and hybrid routing paths, joined by validated platform dependencies.
Telecom management
Virtualization & container platform
Hybrid storage & virtualization
Southbound element mediation is validated per installed ENM and node software release. MTV warm migrations replicate active blocks in the background and execute final cutover inside a scheduled window with verified ESXi fallback.
Download Mermaid source (.mmd)You keep the delivered code, manifests, diagrams, runbooks and validation evidence in your repositories. We agree the systems, acceptance criteria and access prerequisites in the SOW.
Application-grouped inventory with East-West flows, IOPS profiles, placement constraints and L2/L3 requirements.
A transparent TCO comparison of optimized vSAN and OpenShift Virtualization targets, including licenses, capacity, operations and migration effort.
Versioned MTV configurations, network and storage mappings, cutover checks, rollback triggers and data-reconciliation procedures.
The agreed OpenShift Virtualization target with mapped security, backup, monitoring and application acceptance evidence.
VLAN and OVN-Kubernetes bridging so migrated VMs keep their IP identity where applications require it, with the routing changes for each wave.
Before-and-after latency, storage IOPS and licensing cost for each wave, measured against the consolidation model.
What the $14,500 sprint covers for this service. Access stays read-only throughout, and you keep the output whether or not you continue.
Days 1–3
Read-only export of vCenter inventory, VM-to-VM traffic, SPBM storage policies and vSAN I/O baselines.
Days 4–6
Dependency groups scored by cutover risk, resync and capacity exposure, and the VMs that need L2 adjacency or a specific guest driver.
Days 7–9
Dependency map in Mermaid (.mmd) source, a consolidate-or-migrate decision per group, the MTV wave order and ESXi fallback criteria for each wave.
Day 10
Consolidation and licensing cost model, the wave schedule and a fixed-scope backlog.
We migrate and support telecom management systems and hybrid infrastructure, automate how workloads are validated and shipped, and build the portals and network API integrations that expose those platforms to your teams and customers.
A renewal decision made without a dependency map becomes an unplanned migration. The order of moves is set by shared databases, backup jobs and storage constraints, not by the licence date.
Best for
Shared databases, backup jobs and storage constraints can determine the migration order. We map those dependencies before selecting a workload move or scheduling a change window.
Bring to the review
vCenter/ESXi releases, vSAN architecture, cluster capacity, workload dependencies and backup arrangements.
Inventory vCenter, ESXi, vSAN architecture and guest workloads. Check source and target compatibility, group applications by dependency and validate a pilot wave before expanding the migration. NSX lifecycle management is outside our service scope.
vCenter and vSAN releases, cluster and storage-policy inventory, VM dependency and licence data, network and firewall ownership, the target OpenShift Virtualization platform, and backup and restore evidence for the workloads in scope.
Investigate virtualization and storage issues, review recovery objectives and rehearse restoration with application owners. Record measured recovery time, data loss and application checks for the systems included in the test.
Workload dependency map, compatibility and capacity findings, migration-wave runbook and restoration test record.
Identify the owners of hardware, networking, storage, backups and guest applications. Confirm licensed access, vendor support entitlement and change authority before agreeing the work.
Support coverage
Explore a sample service scope. We agree your interfaces, permissions and acceptance criteria before delivery; use the engagement design for deployment.
Use our sample checklists to scope work and review deliverables. Adapt them to your environment. They are illustrative, not customer results, vendor-certified procedures or executable production instructions.
Illustrative expected result
VMware platform baseline and change checklist
Evaluate each workload against application dependencies, support arrangements and migration effort before choosing a target.
Planning a VMware-to-Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization migration: inventory, target requirements, pilot waves and cutover recovery.
