Backup and Recovery Software for organizations moving away from VMWare

by Martin Teetz OpenText Employee

in Portfolio

Why moving away from VMWare might force you to choose a different backup and recovery software solution altogether.

The acquisition of VMWare by Broadcom and the effects on customers

Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware at the end of 2023. As part of its strategy, Broadcom is transitioning companies from perpetual licenses to software subscriptions. Additionally, it has altered licensing terms and introduced software bundles, resulting in higher costs for many VMware customers. In early 2024 Broadcom announced it will sell its Horizon virtualization technology and Workspace ONE, a unified endpoint management platform to California based investment firm KKR. VMWare users are increasingly worried about the future strategy of Broadcom for the VMWare products. Investment firms are known to put their profit first and care less about products and strategies. And Broadcom has retired many of VMWare’s widely used software solutions.

All these insecurities have made many VMWare customers change their virtualization provider altogether. VMWare customers are moving to cloud-based solutions like for example Nutanix and Proxmox.

Impacts to backup and recovery software when moving to a new hypervisor platform

To have full backup and recovery security for the new virtualization platform customers might also need to change their backup and recovery software. As not all backup software providers do support new VM platforms like Nutanix and Proxmox.

OpenText Data Protector for Cloud Workloads supports a wide range of virtualization technologies

OpenText Data Protector for Cloud Workloads fully supports easy backup and recovery for Nutanix and Proxmox virtualization amongst many others. In fact, Data Protector for Cloud Workloads has a very wide range of supported virtualization platforms including

AWS EC2, Citrix Xen, KVM, Oracle VM, Nutanix and many others.

Data Protector for Cloud Workloads also provides strong container protection for Kubernetes, Proxmox and OpenShift.

And you can connect to Data Protector Premium for comprehensive, enterprise-wide backup protection across infrastructure, applications, tape, VMware and Hyper-V, and cloud.

Read about why you need backup and recovery software to protect from data losses.

Read how Data Protector provides excellent cyber security and resiliency.

Migrate to a new virtualization platform with the help of OpenText Migrate

OpenText also has a solid proven workload migration tool: OpenText Migrate. OpenText Migrate helps organizations that want to move away from VMWare to migrate their existing virtual workloads to a new virtualization platform.

Here are the main benefits of OpenText Migrate:

Hidden Costs of Free Tools: Free migration tools often come with hidden fees and complications, such as downtime and staff costs.

Common Migration Issues: Key challenges include low downtime tolerance, irregular work hours for staff, and validation failures.

Cost Comparison: Using a non-disruptive tool like OpenText Migrate can significantly reduce costs and downtime compared to free tools.

Migration Tips: Important tips include factoring downtime into cost analysis, using the right tools, planning thoroughly, and performing functional tests.

Versatile Migration: Easily migrate physical, virtual, and cloud workloads of any size and complexity to and from any environment.

Minimal Risk: Ensures minimal risk and near-zero downtime during the migration process.

Automation: Offers finely tuned automation to orchestrate every stage of the migration.

Flexibility: Provides deployment choice and flexibility for various environments.

OpenText Migrate – migration architecture

OpenText has everything for your organization to experience a swift migration from VMWare to another virtualization platform and to protect your new virtualization infrastructure from any kind of cyber threats.

Learn more about OpenText Migrate workload migration.

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