The VMware Exit Is a Protection Upgrade
Most teams plan to move the backup design across as it stands and rebuild it on the new hypervisor. Many shops add an orchestration product such as Site Recovery Manager to drive the failover plan. Change the hypervisor and each of those assumptions gets a second look.Backup vendors have done real work here, and support for the major KVM-based platforms has matured quickly over the past year.
- ▪Most teams plan to move the backup design across as it stands and rebuild it on the new hypervisor.
- ▪Many shops add an orchestration product such as Site Recovery Manager to drive the failover plan.
- ▪Change the hypervisor and each of those assumptions gets a second look.Backup vendors have done real work here, and support for the major KVM-based platforms has matured quickly over the past year.
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); virtualization The VMware exit is a protection upgrade PARTNER CONTENT: VergeIO says an exit is also an opportunity George Crump George Crump Published fri 2 Oct 2026 // 15:35 UTC Leaving VMware forces a fresh look at every layer of the datacenter, and data protection belongs near the top of that list. Most teams plan to move the backup design across as it stands and rebuild it on the new hypervisor.
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