What does VMware really cost us, and is Azure the answer?
VMware to Azure assessment
The true cost of staying with VMware, or moving to Azure VMware Solution.
In short
What is a VMware to Azure assessment?
A VMware to Azure assessment compares the full cost of staying with VMware against moving to Azure VMware Solution (AVS). It covers total cost of ownership, sizing and licence options, and gives you a business case before your renewal. It is a fixed price of £999 and takes 4 to 6 weeks, with read-only access.
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What's included
- A full total cost of ownership analysis for your VMware estate
- Azure VMware Solution (AVS) sizing for your workloads
- A licence report with savings ranges worth testing
- A business case for moving, or for staying, with the assumptions shown
VMware costs are changing, and renewal dates do not wait. This assessment gives you the numbers and the reasoning to decide with confidence.
What we look at
- Your VMware estate: hosts, clusters, virtual machines and how much of the capacity is actually used
- Licensing and support: what you hold today, when it renews, and what the renewal is likely to cover
- Workloads: which virtual machines are business-critical, which are idle, and which could be retired
- Azure VMware Solution sizing: how many AVS nodes your workloads would need, and what else would have to move with them
- Alternatives: right-sizing and renewing, moving some workloads to native Azure, or moving to AVS
Access we need
Read-only access to vCenter (or an exported inventory), plus your current VMware licence and support details. Nothing in your environment is changed.
What the report covers
- A full total cost of ownership for staying with VMware
- AVS sizing for your workloads, with the assumptions shown
- A licence report: what you need, what you may be paying for and not using, and licence savings ranges worth testing
- A business case for moving, or for staying, side by side
- A senior readout and a report you keep
Sometimes the right answer is to right-size and renew. The business case shows the reasoning either way.
What every assessment ends with
- Your landscape, mapped across infrastructure, platform and software
- Your current cost, layer by layer
- A roadmap with risks, and savings ranges worth testing
- A senior readout and a report you keep
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The assessment in 20 seconds
A short, silent overview: the question it answers, what it looks at and what you get. Everything it says is on this page.
How it runs
Step 1
Agree the scope and fixed price
Step 2
Assessment over 4 to 6 weeks, with read-only access
Step 3
Findings, cost and roadmap
Step 4
Decide what, if anything, to do next
Frequently asked questions
Do we have to move to Azure VMware Solution?
No. The business case covers moving and staying, with the assumptions shown, so you can decide before your renewal.
What does an assessment cost?
Each assessment is a fixed price of £999, agreed before we start. There is no hourly billing.
How long does an assessment take?
4 to 6 weeks. Your team's time is limited to a scoping conversation and giving us read-only access to the relevant environment.
Will you change anything in our systems?
No. Access is read-only during the assessment. We look before we touch, and any changes happen only if you later decide to act on the findings.
Do we keep the report?
Yes. The findings, cost view and roadmap are yours to use, whether you act on them with us, with another supplier or in-house.
Do you sell Microsoft licences?
We are an authorised Microsoft CSP partner. Every assessment is scoped and priced separately from any licence sale.
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