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VMware cutovers you can plan, track, and prove

ReadyAI maps your dependencies, plans each wave, and records every action. Your partner or your team runs the cutover, with your sign-off at every phase.

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The resultMigrations finish faster, with fewer errors, at enterprise scale.
  1. Inventory from vCenter, Nutanix, your CMDB, and other systems of record
  2. Readiness scoring on every VM before anything moves
  3. Dependency-aware wave plans with approvals at every phase
  4. Wave status on every VM, across every migration tool in use
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readyworks cog The short answer

How do enterprises run audit-friendly VMware cutovers at scale?

They plan from connected, cleansed data and run every wave through one governed process. VirtualReady connects vCenter, Nutanix, your CMDB, and other systems of record, normalized and continuously cleansed. ReadyAI analyzes dependencies, recommends wave groupings, and builds the plan. A named delivery team executes each wave.

Every action is logged, explainable, and covered by a tamper-evident audit trail. What changed, who approved it, what it touched, and the outcome are all on record.

readyworks cog The problem

Cutovers stall on what nobody mapped

Broadcom moved VMware to subscription-only licensing and ended perpetual license sales and support renewals (TechRadar). That pushed estates into review on a deadline. Most teams start planning before they know what depends on what. Discovery, approvals, and status sit in separate tools. When leadership or an auditor asks what moved and who signed off, the answer is a stack of spreadsheets.

Undiscovered dependencies

An application nobody scoped breaks on cutover night.

Slipping change windows

Waves get rescheduled when owners aren't ready.

Evidence in pieces

Discovery, CMDB, and change records get reconciled by hand.

readyworks cog How VirtualReady works

AI-planned. Expert-delivered.

ReadyAI analyzes, recommends, and plans. Your partner's engineers oversee and execute the migration, with your sign-off at every phase.

01

Analyze

See every VM with its application context: dependencies, usage, compatibility, and lifecycle stage.

02

Recommend

Get wave groupings and readiness, so you know what else a change will touch before it is scheduled.

03

Plan

Build waves, schedules, and approvals. Surveys, attestations, self-service scheduling, and timed communications keep stakeholders informed and involved.

04

Execute

Your delivery team runs each wave with migration tools such as Nutanix Move. VirtualReady tracks status across tools and records every action.

readyworks cog Your current tools

What your current tools do, and what VirtualReady adds

Turbonomic, Azure Migrate, and ServiceNow each do part of the job well. VirtualReady connects them and coordinates the whole program.

Tool TodayWhat it does well With ReadyWorksWhat VirtualReady adds
Turbonomic
Today

Rightsizing and placement recommendations.

With ReadyWorks

Dependency-aware wave plans, approvals, and an audit trail for each move.

Azure Migrate
Today

Discovery, assessment, and migration to Azure.

With ReadyWorks

Program coordination for moves to Nutanix: stakeholder approvals, status across migration tools, and one audit trail.

ServiceNow
Today

Change requests, approvals, and the CMDB as system of record.

With ReadyWorks

ServiceNow stays your system of record. VirtualReady adds wave planning and orchestration, with optional, opt-in write-back.

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Plan your exit at scale, on data you trust.

A short call, 15 to 30 minutes, with someone who has put AI to work on infrastructure. Bring your questions about readiness, dependencies, and wave planning.
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A clear look at how VirtualReady plans and runs VMware exits and virtualization moves, from first assessment to final wave.
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Your next change window is already on the calendar

Plan the waves before it arrives. An intro call runs 15 to 30 minutes.

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Questions IT leaders ask

They plan from connected, cleansed data and run every wave through one governed process. ReadyAI analyzes dependencies, recommends wave groupings, and builds the plan. A named delivery team executes each wave, and every action is covered by a tamper-evident audit trail.

A VMware cutover is the point where a workload stops running on VMware and starts running on its new platform, such as Nutanix AHV. Enterprise programs cut over in waves. Each wave needs its dependencies mapped, its owners informed, and a window agreed before it moves.

Start with a complete inventory and the application context for every VM: dependencies, usage, compatibility, and lifecycle stage. Group VMs into waves so related systems move together, score readiness, get owner sign-off, and schedule the window. ReadyAI analyzes, recommends, and plans each wave, and your delivery team executes it.

By what depends on what. VMs that share an application, database, or service should move together or in a set order. VirtualReady recommends wave groupings from dependency and application data, so you know what else a change will touch before it is scheduled.

Surveys, attestations, self-service scheduling, and timed communications keep owners informed and involved. Owners confirm what they run, approve the move, and choose a window, and every response is on record.

Every action from discovery to validation is logged and covered by a tamper-evident audit trail, with what changed, who approved it, what it touched, and the outcome on record.

Yes. Nutanix Move handles the transfer of each VM. VirtualReady coordinates the program around it, with wave plans, approvals, and status on every VM across every migration tool in use.

No. Your systems of record stay. VirtualReady connects them and coordinates the program.

ServiceNow stays your system of record for change. VirtualReady plans the waves and coordinates approvals alongside your existing change process, with optional, opt-in write-back.

ReadyAI analyzes, recommends, and plans. Your services partner, ReadyWorks when engaged to deliver, or your own team executes each wave, with your sign-off at every phase.

Dependencies are mapped before waves are set, owners approve before anything moves, and status is visible across every tool.

Your delivery team owns the rollback plan for each VM wave, and VirtualReady gives them what they need to act on it: a record of what moved, when, who approved it, and what it touched. Most VMware exits sit inside a larger modernization program. When that program includes endpoint refreshes or Windows migrations, EndpointReady runs that work with automated rollback built in, on the same platform.

They still need to be retired and accounted for. ServerReady handles server decommissioning on the same platform, so every server, drive, and data-bearing part is accounted for from deployment to disposal.

Start with what you can see. A clean inventory and dependency map show which workloads can move first and which need more planning, so the program starts before every question is answered.