Discover how 10 global organizations cut costs, reduced VMware licensing risk, and modernized their infrastructure with Nutanix.
This eBook showcases real-world success stories from organizations that have made the strategic decision to move away from legacy VMware environments and modernize with Nutanix. The studies highlight how IT leaders overcame rising costs, operational complexity, and vendor lock-in by adopting Nutanix solutions.
From fast migrations and simplified management to dramatic cost savings and improved performance, these stories demonstrate the tangible benefits of choosing Nutanix as a smarter, future-ready alternative to VMware.
Whether you are evaluating your modernization options, or planning your next infrastructure refresh, this eBook gives you the peer-driven validation you need to make a confident move.
VMware to Nutanix Migration Guide
Your Guide to Migrating to Nutanix with External Storage
10 Reasons to Choose Nutanix for your VMware to Cloud Migration
Following Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, many organizations have faced renewal quotes that increased prices significantly ,alongside concerns about reduced innovation and declining support levels. Organizations like MSIG Asia, Bedford College Group, and the University of Waikato chose Nutanix to reduce licensing uncertainty, reduce operational complexity, and gain a future-ready platform with a built-in enterprise hypervisor to drive a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
Migration timelines vary by environment, but the organizations in this eBook moved faster than expected. Boulder Dam Credit Union completed a migration planned for three days in just one and a half days using Nutanix Move. Bedford College Group migrated all workloads in one week, and MSIG Asia migrated 1,000–2,000 VMs with minimal disruption.
Cost savings depend on the size and complexity of the environment, but results from real customers are significant. Artajasa reduced IT costs by 60% and cut person-hours by 75%. The Georgia Secretary of State achieved a 25–30% reduction in IT costs, while Boulder Dam Credit Union eliminated VMware licensing fees entirely by standardizing on Nutanix AHV.
Yes. Nutanix AHV is an enterprise-grade hypervisor included with Nutanix Cloud Platform at no additional licensing cost. Across organizations in this eBook, spanning insurance, government, healthcare, financial services, and higher education, Nutanix improved uptime, simplified management, and delivered native support for hybrid cloud workloads on AWS and Microsoft Azure.
A typical VMware-to-Nutanix migration leverages Nutanix AHV as the replacement hypervisor and Nutanix Prism for centralized management across all nodes and sites. Depending on the environment, organizations also adopt Nutanix Files Storage for unstructured storage, Nutanix Flow for microsegmentation, Nutanix Database Service (NDB) for automated database management, and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) for extending workloads to public cloud.
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