Catalog / VMW-900
VMW-900In demandVMware Migration & Modernization
Plan and defend an enterprise VMware exit: assessment, destination selection, migration engineering, and the executive business case.
About this program
Broadcom's changes to VMware licensing and support have pushed platform strategy onto the executive agenda. This program equips senior architects to run the full decision cycle: quantify the current estate, model realistic destination options across Azure VMware Solution, Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI), and Azure-native services, engineer the migration waves, and present a business case that survives CFO scrutiny.
Who this is for
- Infrastructure and platform architects accountable for a VMware estate decision
- Senior engineers leading migration delivery or landing-zone build-out
- Technical leaders who must brief executives on exit options, cost, and risk
What you will be able to do
- Build a defensible estate assessment with dependency mapping and TCO modelling
- Select and justify destination patterns across AVS, Azure Local, and Azure-native services
- Design migration waves with rehearsed cutover, rollback, and validation procedures
- Present an executive business case covering licensing, risk, and operating-model change
Program modules
Delivered over 6 weeks of live tutor-led sessions, applied work, and structured review.
The post-Broadcom decision landscape
- How VCF bundling and subscription licensing changed renewal economics
- Exit, optimize, or coexist: framing the real strategic options
- Support, roadmap, and ecosystem risk in platform decisions
- Stakeholder mapping: who owns the virtualization decision
Estate discovery and assessment
- Inventory and dependency mapping at estate scale
- Azure Migrate and assessment tooling in practice
- Workload classification: retire, retain, rehost, replatform, refactor
- Building the TCO and comparison model executives will trust
Destination architecture patterns
- Azure VMware Solution: when a like-for-like landing zone wins
- Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI): hybrid estates and data-residency cases
- Azure-native IaaS and PaaS as the modernization destination
- Coexistence architectures and multi-year transition states
Migration engineering
- Landing zones, hybrid networking, and identity prerequisites
- Replication and migration tooling: options and constraints
- Wave planning, sequencing, and dependency-driven grouping
- Cutover rehearsal, rollback criteria, and validation gates
Day-two operations and modernization
- Azure Arc as the unified management plane
- Backup, disaster recovery, and monitoring redesign
- Storage and networking operating-model changes from vSphere-centric workflows
- Selecting first modernization candidates after landing
The executive case and delivery governance
- Structuring the business case: cost, risk, optionality
- Risk registers and decision logs that keep programs governable
- Defending the architecture in steering committees
- Capstone: present your migration strategy for structured review
Hands-on components
- Guided Azure environment for assessment and landing-zone exercises
- Migration wave-planning workshop using a realistic reference estate
- Capstone architecture review with structured instructor feedback
Ready to apply?
Apply any time. Admissions reviews your fit, confirms the next available cohort, and issues an invoice. Your seat is confirmed on payment.