Consolidating workloads onto a hypervisor cluster, with shared storage and the resilience to lose a host without losing a service.
Virtualisation stops one application from needing one physical box. Beyond utilisation, the real gain is operational: snapshots before changes, whole-machine backups, and moving a workload off failing hardware without an outage.
The design decisions that matter are host sizing and shared storage. Undersized hosts mean you can't lose one; storage that can't sustain the IOPS makes every workload feel slow regardless of CPU.
We size for N+1 as standard, so a host can fail or be patched without capacity becoming the problem.
Publishing exclusions is deliberate. Nobody in this market does it, and it's the fastest way to avoid a variation conversation later.
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Hyper-V if you're Windows-heavy and already licensed. VMware where the ecosystem and feature depth justify the cost. Proxmox where budget matters and your team is comfortable with Linux. All three are solid — the honest differentiator is licensing cost and in-house familiarity.
Almost. Exceptions are workloads with hardware dongles, specific real-time requirements, or vendor support terms that forbid it. We identify those during assessment rather than at cutover.
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