Guide
A Field Guide to Your VM Migration
This field guide draws lessons from seven anonymized modernization projects: a 50,000-VM software company, a hybrid investment firm, a Nordic sovereign provider, a 750-site retailer, an East African bank, a U.S. military service, and an air-gapped quantitative investment manager. Their goals range from reducing VMware costs and consolidating VMs and containers to disconnected edge operations, sovereign services, compliance, and AI readiness. The guide stresses mapping dependencies, defining measurable success, dedicating the right people, acknowledging technical and cultural complexity, starting with contained workloads, and never skipping discovery. Spectro Cloud offers three migration paths: standalone Launchpad for VMs, the fixed-price VM Migration Liftoff Kit, and KubeVirt-based VMO un
