Virtualisation sized to the workload and the licence.
Hypervisor platforms designed around real resource consumption and current licensing economics — including honest advice about migrating when the renewal no longer makes sense.
When the renewal stops making sense
Virtualisation licensing has changed sharply, and estates sized years ago on different economics are now paying for capacity they do not use under terms that no longer suit them. Meanwhile clusters were provisioned against requested resources rather than consumed ones.
- A licence renewal has increased sharply and the estate has not changed.
- Virtual machines were sized on request rather than on measured consumption.
- Nobody has a current picture of actual versus allocated resource.
- Alternative hypervisors have been discussed but never assessed properly.
What we build
A platform sized against measured consumption, with a clear-eyed comparison of licensing options — including migration where the numbers justify it and staying put where they do not.
- Consumption analysis: allocated versus actually used, per workload
- Right-sizing recommendations with the reclaimable capacity quantified
- A licensing comparison across viable platforms, costed over three years
- High availability and failover designed to your recovery objectives
- Migration path where a platform change is justified, with rollback
- Backup integration and tested restore for virtual workloads
How it runs
Measure first. Most estates are provisioned well above what they consume.
- 01Measure consumption
Actual CPU, memory and storage use against allocation, over a period long enough to include the peaks.
- 02Right-size
Reclaim over-allocation, which frequently changes the licensing conversation before any platform decision is made.
- 03Compare honestly
Platform options costed over three years including migration effort and operational difference, not headline licence price.
- 04Design for availability
Host redundancy and failover sized to the recovery objectives, rather than to a default cluster configuration.
- 05Migrate if justified
Where a change earns its cost, migration in waves with rollback. Where it does not, we say so.
What changes once it is running
What sizing against measurement produces.
Capacity comes back
Right-sizing typically reclaims meaningful headroom before any new hardware or licence is considered.
The renewal is a decision
A costed comparison replaces accepting the increase because the alternative was never assessed.
Failover matches the objective
Availability design is derived from recovery requirements rather than from the default configuration.
Restores are proven
Backup integration is tested at the virtual machine level rather than assumed to work.
How an engagement is shaped
Timed to land before a renewal, because that is when the options are open.
Consumption and licence review
Two to three weeks measuring real usage and modelling licensing options. Frequently the highest-return part of the work.
Right-size and design
Reclamation executed and the target platform designed, whether that is your current hypervisor or another.
Migrate or optimise
Wave migration with rollback where a change is justified; optimisation and operation where it is not.
Common questions
The things buyers ask before they commit. If yours is not here, it is a good first question for the assessment.
- Should we move off our current hypervisor?
- Only if the three-year total, including migration effort and retraining, is genuinely better. Sometimes it is and sometimes the renewal is still the rational choice. We produce the numbers rather than a recommendation shaped by a partner agreement.
- Is Proxmox a serious alternative?
- For many mid-market workloads, yes, and it is in production with our clients. It is not a drop-in replacement in every case — feature and operational differences are part of what the comparison covers.
- Can we move some workloads to cloud instead?
- Often the right mix. Workloads with variable demand suit cloud; steady-state workloads frequently remain cheaper on owned or leased hardware.
When is your next hypervisor renewal?
The consumption analysis is worth doing before that date, while you still have options.