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Four Strategies to Manage
VMware by Broadcom Risk

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The latest actions of VMware by Broadcom are accelerating change and risk for IT organizations worldwide. With the mandated transition to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 9) coming in October 2027, enterprises face a narrowing window to adapt. Pricing shifts, bundled-only offerings, reduced flexibility, and emerging concerns about hardware availability and supply chain delays are forcing many organizations to make unplanned infrastructure decisions. These changes may introduce higher costs, fewer support options, and growing uncertainty around future innovation—putting pressure on budgets and slowing modernization efforts.

The time to act is now. IT leaders must modernize infrastructure, optimize costs, and enable innovation—often on accelerated timelines—while also managing cybersecurity risks, integrating AI, and simplifying operations. The question is no longer whether change is required, but how to move forward with confidence. The infrastructure built for this new reality is one that delivers:

  • Flexibility and scalability to adapt as business needs evolve.
  • Unified operations across on-prem, edge, and cloud for consistency and control.
  • Support for VMs, containers, and enterprise AI to drive transformation.
  • Cost transparency and risk reduction without sacrificing performance.
  • Supply chain resilient infrastructure through external storage and hybrid cloud solutions.

With four key strategies, Nutanix helps you reduce risk, modernize your IT infrastructure, and prepare your business for a hybrid multicloud future.

01 Build for the future on a modern platform
It’s not just a “like-for-like” replacement. The reality is that Nutanix can help you move forward with confidence without slowing down innovation. You can run Nutanix, including our integrated Nutanix AHV hypervisor, for AI, modern apps and other new workloads, while retaining your legacy SAN for existing workloads. We also make it easy to run current workloads – including Microsoft SQL Server, SAP ERP, dev/test, disaster recovery and edge – at new sites.

02 Replace your legacy SAN with Nutanix Cloud Platform
Swap complexity for simplicity when you replace your traditional SAN infrastructure with the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution, which is based on our industry-leading hyperconverged infrastructure. NCP delivers a cloud-like experience with optimized performance and high availability for AI and cloud-native apps, as well as traditional business-critical apps. Nutanix licenses include Nutanix AHV – a full-featured, enterprise-grade hypervisor built for hybrid multicloud deployments – at no additional cost.

03 Rebalance between on-premises and the cloud
If you’re looking for an easy way to reduce risk by transitioning workloads to the public cloud, Nutanix has you covered. With license mobility and painless migration to Microsoft Azure and AWS, Nutanix eliminates costly, time-consuming refactoring and replatforming. You can also use your existing cloud credits or make progress toward consumption commitments by purchasing cloud services and Nutanix licenses in cloud marketplaces.

04 Optimize existing VMware investments for maximum value
Nutanix integrates seamlessly with VMware solutions, so you can apply your existing VMware vSphere licenses to our modern platform. You’ll continue enjoying value from your current VMware licenses while reducing risk by running modern containerized and traditional VM apps on our proven hyperconverged infrastructure – on-premises, in the cloud and at the edge. In addition, it’s easy to use Nutanix with leading external storage vendors, such as Dell and Everpure.

Start today:
Before the VCF 9 Deadline Forces Your Hand

With VMware by Broadcom’s mandate to move to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 9) by October 2027, organizations have a shrinking window to act on their own terms. Nutanix can help you reduce disruption, minimize risk, and control costs before migration becomes mandatory. With a proven track record supporting over 30,000 customers globally and an industry-leading Net Promoter Score of 90+ for the past decade, we make the transition simple and fast. Our easy-to-use migration tools, training, professional services, and migration blueprint help you confidently move from VMware to Nutanix. 


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At the end of the day we’re going to move on away from VMware, and move on to Nutanix, which is more supported, it’s newer tech, everything is a lot better.

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We realize tremendous cost benefits with Nutanix, and we expect that it will pay us dividends in the future as well, by providing a scalable backbone that will continue to support our needs.

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