Cloud & VMware migration
Cloud and VMware migration in Dubai
Moving workloads off legacy virtualisation, an office server room, or a hyperscaler bill that stopped making sense — planned and executed by the people who run the destination platform.
Three reasons businesses move
VMware licensing changed
The bill arrived and the renewal no longer makes sense for the size of the estate. Moving to an OpenStack-based platform removes the per-socket problem, and most workloads do not notice the difference.
The server room has to go
An office move, a landlord, a cooling failure in August, or an auditor asking where the data is. Hardware in a cupboard is a risk that gets quietly carried until it is not.
The hyperscaler bill grew
Steady workloads billed at on-demand rates, plus egress. For anything running continuously, local infrastructure is usually 30 to 50 per cent cheaper — worth checking against your own invoice.
How a migration runs
1. Inventory and dependencies
What runs where, what talks to what, and which forgotten machine everything quietly depends on. This step is where migrations succeed or fail.
2. Plan and prove
Target design, migration order, rollback for each step, and a pilot workload moved first to prove the approach before anything important moves.
3. Move in waves
Grouped by dependency, not by convenience. Replication runs ahead of time so each cutover is minutes, in a window you choose.
4. Run and tune
Sizing corrected against real usage after a few weeks — most estates are over-provisioned on arrival and cost less once tuned.
What we tell people before they commit
- Not everything should move. Anything built on a hyperscaler's proprietary managed services is a rewrite, not a migration, and the engineering cost usually outweighs the saving.
- Spiky workloads belong where they are. If your load triples for one month a year, on-demand capacity is the right tool.
- Budget the exit cost. Moving terabytes out of a hyperscaler costs money once. Better as a line in the plan than a surprise on the final invoice.
- Hybrid is a legitimate destination. Steady production local, elastic and platform services where they already are, private connectivity between them.
Where the workloads land
Virtual private cloud
Reserved vCPU, RAM and storage in a private network, at a flat monthly rate. The usual destination for a VMware estate.
Cloud VMs
Individual instances for smaller estates, billed hourly or monthly, provisioned in seconds.
Disaster recovery
Fujairah as a separate failure domain for the Dubai production environment — often the reason to migrate in the first place.
Start with the inventory
Send us what you know about your current environment. We will tell you what moves easily, what needs work, and what you should leave exactly where it is.