The Broadcom acquisition changed the math on VMware for a lot of Microsoft-centric organizations. Licensing costs, support model shifts, and long-term roadmap uncertainty have pushed infrastructure teams to take a hard look at Hyper-V — not as a fallback, but as a deliberate choice.

This session draws directly from real VMware-to-Hyper-V migration engagements: what our assessments surface, how workload mapping shapes replication strategy, where cutover planning tends to break down, and what post-migration operations look like once you're on the other side. Disaster recovery (DR) isn't an afterthought here — a migration that doesn't account for DR from the start creates exposure you'll feel later.

Beyond the migration itself, we’ll cover how Azure Arc, hybrid identity, and modern Windows infrastructure management fit into a long-term Microsoft infrastructure strategy.