VMware Exit Assessment
Two weeks, fixed scope: a 3-year total-cost model across renewal and migration paths for your VMware estate, and a written recommendation you own either way.
What you get
- A 3-year TCO model, in your numbersRenewal, full migration, and hybrid paths costed side by side, including internal labor and retraining, not just license line items.
- A written recommendationOne path, defended in writing, in language a CFO accepts. Sometimes that path is renewal.
- The inventory workbookYour hosts, clusters, VMs, and entitlements in a form you can keep using after we leave.
- A platform comparison scored for your estateNutanix, Proxmox, Hyper-V, Azure Local, and public cloud against your workloads and your team, not in the abstract.
- Negotiation leversIf renewal wins, the specific points worth pushing on, with the migration model as your leverage.
- A 90-day action planThe first steps for whichever path the numbers pick, sequenced and owned.
What we need from you
- Read-only vCenter access, or an RVTools export if you prefer not to grant access.
- Your current Broadcom quote or contract, and last year's if you have it.
- About three hours of your team's time: a kickoff call, one working session on dependencies, and the findings walkthrough.
We install nothing and change nothing. The environment is exactly as we found it.
Timeline
Kickoff, inventory collection, entitlement review, and the dependency working session. The renewal quote gets decomposed line by line.
TCO modeling, platform scoring, report writing, and the live walkthrough with your team. You end the week holding the document.
Who it's for, and who it isn't
- You run roughly 5 to 100 VMware hosts and a renewal is inside 18 months.
- You need a number a CFO or board will accept, not a vendor pitch.
- Your team is capable but has never priced an exit properly.
- You have already signed the renewal. Wait for the next cycle.
- You want a document that justifies a decision already made. We write what the numbers say.
- Your estate is two hosts. Call us; you likely need an afternoon, not an assessment.
Sample deliverable: table of contents
- 1 · Executive summary and recommendation
- 2 · Current-state inventory (hosts, clusters, VMs, licensing entitlements)
- 3 · Renewal path: 3-year cost model against your actual quote
- 4 · Migration paths: platform comparison scored for your estate
- 5 · Hybrid option: which workloads move first and why
- 6 · Risk register: the workloads that will fight a migration
- 7 · Negotiation levers if you renew
- 8 · 90-day action plan for the recommended path
Common questions
Is the deliverable really ours if we don’t hire you afterward?
Yes. The report, the TCO model, and the inventory workbook are yours to keep, share with your board, or hand to another vendor. That is the point of a fixed-price assessment: you are buying an answer, not an obligation.
What access do you need?
Read-only vCenter access or an RVTools export, your current Broadcom quote or contract, and roughly three hours of your team’s time across two calls. No agents installed, no changes made to the environment.
Can this be done remotely?
Yes, and most are. We are Dallas-based and will come on site for DFW clients when a walkthrough of the environment helps, at no change to the price.
What if the answer is "stay on VMware"?
Then that is what the report says, with the negotiated-renewal numbers to back it. Roughly a third of these analyses land on renewal or a partial move. A recommendation you can defend to a CFO is worth more than one that flatters the vendor writing it.
Why charge for this when other vendors do "free assessments"?
A free assessment is a sales call with a spreadsheet. Charging for this one is what lets the recommendation be independent: we are paid for the analysis, not for the migration it might or might not lead to.
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Use the contact form and mention the assessment, or call. We confirm fit in fifteen minutes before anything is billed.