Virtualization · VMware · Hyper-V

VMware renewal got expensive? Move to Hyper-V without the downtime.

Since Broadcom bought VMware, perpetual licenses are gone and many small businesses have been handed much bigger subscription bills. We plan and run the move to Microsoft Hyper-V or Azure, or keep your VMware estate healthy if staying makes sense.

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What you get

  • Lower virtualization licensing costs
  • No surprise renewals
  • Tested rollback for every VM
  • A clear path to Azure when you're ready
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What's included

VMware & Hyper-V: what's included

VMware cost and exit assessment

Your renewal quote compared with Hyper-V and Azure, in real numbers.

Hyper-V design and build

Hosts, storage, networking and clustering sized for your workloads.

VM conversion and cutover

Each virtual machine converted, tested and cut over with a rollback.

Windows Server licensing review

Make sure you're licensed correctly for every VM you run.

Azure hybrid services

Azure Backup, Site Recovery and Arc management for on-premise hosts.

Physical-to-virtual migrations

Retire old physical servers into virtual machines.

Ongoing server support

Patching, monitoring and capacity planning for every host and VM.

VMware support if you stay

Health checks, upgrades and monitoring for existing vSphere estates.

What changed with VMware

Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware in late 2023 and quickly reshaped how VMware is sold: perpetual licenses ended, products were bundled into subscriptions, and partner programs changed. For a small business running two or three hosts, renewal quotes have often gone up sharply, sometimes for features nobody uses.

The good news: if you own Windows Server licenses, you likely already own a capable hypervisor. Hyper-V in Windows Server 2025 handles the workloads most small and mid-sized companies run, and it ties straight into Azure for backup, disaster recovery and hybrid management.

Your options, honestly compared

  • Hyper-V on your existing hardware: often the lowest-cost path when your servers have life left in them.
  • Hyper-V failover cluster: high availability for businesses that can't tolerate a single host failing.
  • Azure Local or Azure virtual machines: for companies ready to get out of the hardware business altogether.
  • Stay on VMware: sometimes the numbers or an application vendor say stay. We'll support it properly and plan the exit for later.

How a migration runs

We inventory every virtual machine, its dependencies and its licensing, build the new hosts alongside the old ones, convert and test each VM, then cut over in planned windows with the original left intact as a rollback. Backups are verified before and after every move.

How it works

Getting started is simple

  1. 01

    Free IT assessment

    We review your Microsoft 365 tenant, devices, backups and security, then walk you through what we found. No cost, no obligation.

  2. 02

    Roadmap and flat quote

    You get a prioritised plan and one per-user monthly price. Projects are quoted separately, up front.

  3. 03

    Onboard and lock down

    We document everything, deploy our tools, close the biggest security gaps first and coordinate the handoff from your old provider.

  4. 04

    Proactive care

    Monitoring, patching, help desk and quarterly planning. Problems get fixed before they become outages.

VMware & Hyper-V FAQ

Is Hyper-V as good as VMware for a small business?

For the workloads most small and mid-sized businesses run, such as file, application, database and domain servers, Hyper-V is mature, fast and fully supported by Microsoft. Very large or highly specialised environments may still favour VMware; we'll tell you if that's you.

Do we have to buy Hyper-V?

Hyper-V is a role included in Windows Server. If you already license Windows Server for your VMs, the hypervisor itself usually adds no license cost. We'll confirm your licensing in the assessment.

How much downtime does a VMware to Hyper-V migration need?

Each VM is offline only for its final sync and cutover, typically scheduled after hours. The original VM stays untouched until the new one is signed off.

Can we move straight to Azure instead?

Yes. Some workloads move to Azure virtual machines, others to Microsoft 365 or SaaS, and some stay on-premise. The assessment recommends a home for each.

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