VMware exit strategy — scoping and methodology

• Scope an exit programme: perimeter, stakes and stakeholders.
• Carry out an estate inventory and map application dependencies.
• Compare target platforms against explicit criteria.
• Build a total cost of ownership analysis and a decision file.
• Choose the migration strategy and define waves and cutover criteria.
• Anticipate risks: skills, reversibility, continuity and fallback plan.

• IT managers, CIOs and infrastructure architects.
• Infrastructure project managers and production leads.
• Consultants supporting a datacenter modernization.

• General knowledge of a VMware virtualization environment.
• No development skills required.

Day 1 — Assessment and target selection

• Market context and the drivers behind a VMware exit
• Estate inventory and application dependency mapping
• Reasoned comparison of target platforms and total cost of ownership

Day 2 — Trajectory and programme delivery

• Migration strategies and breaking the work into waves
• Cutover criteria, acceptance testing and reversibility
• Skills, target operations and building the roadmap