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Many Kansas City businesses are reviewing their virtualization strategy following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware. Licensing costs have increased significantly, perpetual licenses have been replaced with subscription models, and product bundling has reduced flexibility for many customers.
The way VMware is sold has changed. For many businesses, the impact has been hard to ignore:
For some organizations, staying on VMware still makes sense. For many, it doesn’t. Either way, the decision deserves real analysis, not a reflexive renewal and not a panicked migration.
Your infrastructure strategy should be driven by your business needs, not vendor constraints.
We work with businesses across the Kansas City metro: Overland Park, Lenexa, Olathe, Lee’s Summit, Independence, and surrounding communities on both the Kansas and Missouri sides.
We don’t sell a single platform. We start by understanding what you actually run, what your team can support, and where you want your infrastructure to be in three to five years. Then we recommend the path that fits, even when that means staying on VMware.
Our virtualization consulting engagements typically cover:
Every environment is different. There’s no one-size-fits-all answer.
The two platforms we deploy most often as VMware alternatives are HPE VM Essentials and Proxmox VE. Both replace ESXi and vSphere for the right workloads.
For organizations that want a trusted enterprise alternative without VMware’s complexity or cost trajectory.
Best for: businesses leaving VMware that still want a name-brand, enterprise-supported hypervisor with a single point of accountability.
A mature, open-source platform used in production worldwide, with optional enterprise support direct from Proxmox.
Best for: Kansas City organizations that want greater control, lower predictable costs, and the freedom to scale without per-CPU licensing surprises. A strong ESXi alternative for general-purpose workloads and a credible vSphere alternative for clustered, high-availability environments.
How the three platforms stack up across the dimensions that drive most renewal-vs-migration decisions.
The right answer depends on what you’re already running, your team’s skill set, and where the multi-year math lands. We model all three against your current entitlements before recommending a path.
Our virtualization consulting and migration services cover the full lifecycle, whether you’re starting with a question or already mid-decision.
We inventory your current VMware environment, model your renewal cost, and compare it against HPE VM Essentials, Proxmox VE, and (where appropriate) hybrid or cloud-based options. You get a clear, side-by-side view of cost and trade-offs.
We help you choose the right destination based on your workloads, HA needs, backup strategy, and what your team can realistically support day-to-day.
Cutover windows, dependencies, networking, storage, backup integration, and rollback. We plan migrations the way we’d want our own infrastructure migrated.
Cluster build-out, VM conversion, validation, and cutover, managed end-to-end so your team doesn’t have to context-switch into an unfamiliar platform during the move.
Once you’re live, we can manage the environment for you or hand off a clean, documented platform to your internal team, your call.
We’re a Kansas City–based managed IT and consulting firm working with businesses across the metro on both the Kansas and Missouri sides. We’ve helped local businesses make practical, cost-aware infrastructure decisions for years.
Virtualization decisions are long-term decisions; the platform you pick will shape your operations and budget for the next five to seven years.
We don’t pass rising vendor costs along to clients without a fight. When the math stops working, we help you find a better path, and stick around to make sure the new environment performs.
If you’re staring at a VMware renewal that doesn’t add up, let’s talk. We’ll walk through your environment, model the numbers, and give you a straight answer about what makes sense.
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