Incumbent hypervisor renewals have become unpredictable - bundled licensing, shifting terms, rising costs. Intellitech's Hypervisor Modernization Assessment maps your estate onto a right-sized open platform path, with backup and DR designed in from day one.
L1 - The offer
A fixed-scope, door-opener engagement that turns "we should look at alternatives" into a concrete, costed plan.
Hosts, VMs, storage, network and licensing position - plus a clear analysis of what your incumbent renewal actually exposes you to.
Including the ~5% oddball VMs that always bite - USB dongles, vGPU, raw device mappings, appliance VMs.
Path A vs Path B vs stay/hybrid - genuinely neutral, per "vendor-informed, not vendor-locked".
Phased by workload priority and risk, with per-wave test and rollback discipline - not a big-bang weekend cutover.
Veeam on Path A, Kasten K10 on Path B - protection designed in from the point of migration, never bolted on.
A 3-5 year total-cost comparison, written report, executive readout and a costed migration proposal.
L2 - Proof
Vendor-informed, not vendor-locked: the assessment recommends the path that matches your estate - including "stay put" or a hybrid, if that's genuinely the right answer.
The right-sized path, for small and mid-size estates - roughly up to 75 VMs - that want simplicity, capex-light economics and transparent subscription licensing: a Proxmox VE cluster with Proxmox Backup Server, Veeam Backup & Replication integration for image backup plus Proxmox-to-Proxmox replica jobs (GA in Veeam v13.1), local ZFS/Ceph storage per design with array-class options where needed, and transparent per-socket subscription licensing - the plainest exit economics available.
The enterprise path, for enterprise and regulated estates - typically 75+ VMs - with HCI ambitions, a Kubernetes roadmap, or sovereignty and on-premises mandates: Harvester HCI with Rancher management, Veeam Kasten K10 backup and DR that is Kubernetes-native and designed in from day one, storage tiering matched to workload - Longhorn default, Portworx for array-class and metro-DR, Huawei CSI in Huawei-standard accounts - and an air-gapped protection pattern available where regulation demands it.
We break and fix the migration path in our own environment before it ever reaches yours: a working air-gapped SUSE Virtualization (Harvester) 1.8 + Kasten K10 lab with validated, documented delete-and-restore testing - and a legacy-hypervisor-to-Proxmox migration in delivery today for a national food producer. Built by a Veeam Accredited Service Partner - 1 of only 3 in Africa - under our own ISO 9001:2015 & ISO/IEC 27001 certified operations.
For many enterprises, incumbent hypervisor licensing bundles and pricing structures have shifted significantly - and renewal is no longer a rubber-stamp exercise. Bundled licensing means budgets built around your old agreement may no longer hold; most teams know they should evaluate alternatives but don't have a validated, low-risk path to get there; and a hypervisor migration without a backup/DR strategy attached is how workloads get stranded mid-project.
