Exit VMware Without Risk, Downtime, or Vendor Lock-In
A proven platform for enterprises that need to leave VMware safely — without guessing, refactoring by hand, or disrupting production.
VMware exits fail when teams rely on assumptions, outdated documentation, and one-off migration scripts.
FluidCloud replaces uncertainty with visibility, portability, and proof — before you commit.
CONTEXT
Why Enterprises Are
Re-Evaluating VMware
For over a decade, VMware was the default foundation for enterprise infrastructure.
Today, changes in licensing, pricing, and flexibility have turned VMware into a strategic and financial risk.
Organizations are being forced to consider alternatives — not because VMware stopped working, but because the business terms changed.
PAIN POINTS
Why Most VMware Exit Projects Fail
Reliance on manual execution creates a cycle of risk and delay
The Manual Migration Trap
A successful VMware exit requires more than planning.
It requires a platform designed for continuous change.
SOLUTION INTRO
FluidCloud for Exiting VMware
FluidCloud is a cloud infrastructure platform purpose-built to help enterprises to break free from vendor lock-in, including exiting VMware safely and predictably.
Instead of forcing risky migrations, FluidCloud gives teams the ability to discover, translate, prove, and control their infrastructure, before touching production workloads.
Discover - Clone - Validate - Move
Outcome
A golden image of your infrastructure with all dependencies mapping, security policies, gateways, segments, distributed firewalls.
Discover in seconds
You cannot migrate what you cannot see.
FluidCloud scans your VMware environment and produces a complete golden image of your infrastructure using our patented world’s fastest inventory scan including:
Our Cloud Scan, the world’s fastest, scans your VMware environment in seconds and produces a complete golden image of your infrastructure providing:
Produces a complete golden image of your infrastructure including VMs, NSX-T gateways, segments, security policies, cross-application dependencies, drift, and undocumented changes.
Provides instant visibility for planning a VMware exit, performing a VMware exit assessment, or executing a VMware migration strategy.
No agents, no disruption, no spreadsheets – gives CIOs/CTOs full confidence before migration.
No agents. No disruption. No spreadsheets.
Clone your infrastructure in seconds
From VMware to Infrastructure of your choice :)
FluidCloud automatically converts your live VMware environment into production-ready Terraform, making your infrastructure:
Converts live VMware workloads into production-ready Terraform (IaC) across AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, Nutanix, and OpenShift.
Includes full dependency mapping, security policies, gateways, segments, and distributed firewalls, a process that used to take weeks or months.
Ensures infrastructure portability and supports hybrid cloud migration and multi-cloud migration, forming the foundation of a safe VMware exit.
Portability is the foundation of a safe exit.
Outcome
Portability is the foundation of a safe exit.
You are no longer bound by VMware-specific assumptions.
Outcome
No guessing. No assumptions. You know it works on Tuesday
afternoon, not just during the Sunday morning maintenance window.
Prove Before You Commit
Validate the exit before risking production.
With our patented Cloud Mapping Technology, teams can:
Enables IT teams to make changes on-the-fly based on enterprise requirements.
Patented Cloud Mapping Technology allows teams to compare source vs destination, analyze costs, and validate migration strategies.
Run real POCs in minutes, preserving configs, topology, and policies without risking production workloads.
Eliminates guesswork and assumptions, ensuring successful automated cloud migration and enterprise cloud migration.
Reduces operational risk and accelerates multi-cloud adoption.
Preserve configs, topology, and policies just by scanning.
No guessing. No assumptions. Proof first.
Free Yourself from Vendor Lock-In
Control infrastructure long after the exit.
After migration, FluidCloud remains the system of record:
FluidCloud remains the system of record post-migration, keeping infrastructure versioned, auditable, and portable.
Enterprises can rollback, rebuild, or migrate workloads again anytime, ensuring long-term IT flexibility.
Continuous compliance and drift monitoring ensures security and audit-readiness.
Replaces VMware vendor lock-in with strategic multi-cloud migration freedom and infrastructure portability.
Vendor lock-in is replaced with long-term flexibility.
DELIVERABLE
Guide Section
The 5 Hardest Problems Exiting VMware — And How Enterprises Overcome The
Unlock the Secrets to a Risk-Free VMware Exit
Discover how top enterprises are tackling rising costs, vendor lock-in, complex migrations, and compliance risks with modern cloud migration strategies. Get actionable insights to reduce TCO, accelerate multi-cloud adoption, and safeguard your mission-critical workloads.
Can this be a "Report" instead of "Guide"?
Sure!
Wait --- no. It needs to be guide. Report is reserved for more serious data filled pieces usually sponsored by a third party.
Built for Enterprise Infrastructure Teams
FluidCloud is used by enterprises, MSPs, SIs, and GSIs managing complex VMware environments across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.
The FluidCloud Advantage — Built for VMware Migration
Migrate first, fix issues later
Prove before you migrate
Incomplete CMDBs, assumptions
Real-time Cloud Scan™ of VMware
Manual redesign and refactoring
Automated translation of NSX & policies
Custom scripts, partial IaC
1:1 production-ready Terraform generated automatically
High risk during cutover
Full environment validated pre-migration
6–18 months typical
Weeks, not months
Replaced with new lock-in
Cloud-agnostic, no proprietary formats
Often weakened during exit
Policies preserved and continuously monitored
One-time migration project
Ongoing control plane post-exit
Requires re-engineering
Rebuild, rollback, or move anytime
The platform is designed to support:
Large, long-lived environments
Regulated industries
Multi-cloud and future migrations
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