VMware migrations, and the cluster after
Move your VMware workload to our cloud with image-level conversion, or have us operate a vSphere cluster for you in our facilities. Same engineering team, two paths off your current environment.
Two ways through a VMware change
The first is migration. Your existing VMware estate moves to our cloud at the image level: we pull the disks from your vSphere, convert them, and bring them up as your VMs on our platform. No rebuild, no reinstall, no application re-test cycle when the guest OS is the constant.
The second is managed VMware. If staying on vSphere is the right answer for your fleet, we stand up a dedicated cluster in our Troy datacenters with vCenter, ESXi, and the storage layout sized to your workload. Our team operates the cluster; you operate the VMs. Either path lands the same place: VMware running where you want it, with someone else paged when the platform is unhappy.
The platform, plainly
Standard VMware on hardware we operate, with our migration tooling in front of it.
Standard VMware hypervisor and vCenter. Our team holds the licensing, the patches, and the cluster operations work.
Your VMDKs land on our platform as your VMs. No rebuild, no reinstall, no application re-test cycle when the OS is the constant.
Two Troy, Michigan facilities, Tier III+, SOC 2 Type II audited. The hardware lives where the rest of the platform lives.
Where the work happens
For migrations, the project work is ours. We inventory the source environment, size the destination, scope the network landing, replicate the disks on a schedule that doesn't impact production, and run the cutover with you on a bridge. Application owners aren't expected to rebuild anything; the VMs come up where they need to come up.
For a managed vSphere cluster, the day-2 work is ours. ESXi patches, vCenter upgrades, host firmware, datastore growth, snapshot hygiene, and the monitoring sitting outside the cluster all run on a schedule we hold. You hold vCenter access and run the VMs; we hold the platform underneath and the pager when something at that layer goes sideways.
Backups attach via your existing tooling (Veeam is the common one) or via the Managed Backups service we run separately. Either way, the recovery story is written into the contract: RPO, RTO, where the backup data lives, and how a restore happens. Coverage and credit terms are in the SLA so the bar is in writing.
Questions VMware shops ask first
The ones we hear when a team is reading the renewal quote for the third time.
What does the migration actually move?
The VM, as it is. We pull the disk images from your source environment (vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, or a bare-metal P2V), convert them to land on our cloud, and bring them up. The guest OS, the application, the configuration files, and the data are unchanged. You don't rebuild the VM; you cut over to it.
Are you replacing my vSphere, or running it for me?
Either, depending on what you want. If you're moving to our cloud, the destination is the ManagedWay cloud platform; the VMs land there and you stop running vSphere. If you want to stay on VMware, we'll stand up a vSphere cluster on hardware in our datacenters and operate it for you. Both options exist because both questions get asked.
How is downtime handled at cutover?
A staged sync plus a short final delta. We replicate the disks ahead of time, often over weeks if the dataset is large, then schedule a short maintenance window for the final delta sync and IP cutover. For most workloads the actual downtime is in minutes. For workloads with replication we can do, we run hot-cold with a clean failover instead.
What about VMware licensing under the new model?
If we're migrating you off VMware, licensing stops being your problem the day the cutover finishes. If we're operating a vSphere cluster for you, we'll quote the licensing into the deal so the cost is one line, not two, and we'll talk through whether the post-Broadcom subscription math still pencils for your fleet. Managed Proxmox sits next to this for teams moving to open source.
Big enough to deliver, small enough to care
Tell us your VM count, your current vSphere version, and what you're trying to land. We'll quote a path that fits.
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