Many organisations are currently evaluating alternatives to VMware as they rethink their infrastructure strategy. Vendor independence, predictable costs, and predictable operations are becoming key drivers for change.
In this live webinar, we’ll show you why Apache CloudStack is a proven, production-ready alternative to VMware (including vSphere, NSX, and vSAN) and walk you through a real-world migration framework that enables a fast and low-risk transition to open source.
You’ll learn how to move from VMware to CloudStack in weeks, not years, using a methodology already proven in production environments.
In this webinar, you will learn why Apache CloudStack is a production-proven alternative to VMware and how organizations successfully adopt it in real-world environments.
We will share a migration journey that has been tested in production, helping you understand what works in practice — not just in theory.
You’ll gain insight into:
How every migration starts with a structured assessment of the existing VMware environment, including:
How assessment results are tunned into a concrete and realistic migration plan including:
An overview of how the CloudStack platform is prepared:
The role of a pilot phase in a successful migration:
What happens after a successful pilot:
How the VMware environment is safely and methodically retired, including controlled shutdown, final validation, and the handover to steady-state operations.
Real-World Migration Scenarios
We will also reference real-world migration scenarios (abstracted) to illustrate how the migration journey is applied in practice.
To complement the high-level journey, we will include a few short live demonstrations, such as:
Apache CloudStack managing a multi-hypervisor environment
The migration tools available in the CloudStack UI
An example of running a bulk migration script
We’ll close the webinar with an interactive Q&A session where you can ask questions about your specific environment and migration challenges.
Marco is a seasoned Technical Marketing Manager at ShapeBlue, with over 25 years of IT experience. As an Apache CloudStack expert and committer, he specializes in creating and delivering technical marketing content that bridges the gap between technology and business.
Jithin is a Cloud Architect by profession. He has helped organisations around the globe use commercial distributions of Apache CloudStack over the past 10 years. These organisations include private, public, and government cloud service providers.
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