Migration Path Authorization: Who Approves the VDDK-Free Route?
DirectPath removes the VDDK requirement for ESXi-to-AHV migrations, not the need for privileged vCenter access. Five parts of a record decide who approves the route.
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The Control Plane Problem In VMware Alternatives
Most VMware migration plans inventory VMs, clusters, storage, and licensing. Very few inventory the operational assumptions attached to vCenter itself. The result is predictable: the hypervisor migration succeeds in staging, but production operations degrade because the virtualization control plane functions the organization depended on were never modeled as architecture. This isn’t a technology maturity problem….
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The “Lift-and-Shift to KVM” Fallacy
The VM conversion completed without errors. Every workload made it across. The migration dashboard showed green, the project lead closed the ticket, and the consultants left the building. Three weeks later, backup verification jobs are silently failing. Monitoring dashboards are dark. The on-call team is operating without baselines. Nobody knows what normal looks like on…
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Nutanix AOS vs VMware vSphere: How to Demo Both Without Bias
The Broadcom Context You Cannot Ignore Demoing Nutanix AOS vs VMware vSphere in 2026 is not the same conversation it was in 2022. Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware — and the subsequent licensing restructuring, perpetual license elimination, and partner program consolidation — has changed the context of every bake-off. Engineers who were evaluating these platforms purely…
