Migration.
- March 5, 2026
NSX-v to NSX-T Migration: The Playbook Nobody Gives You
Having led this migration at enterprise scale, here's the real playbook — including the gotchas that aren't in VMware's documentation.
- April 2, 2019
Migrating VMs Between Datastores Without Downtime
Storage vMotion is the capability that makes VMware environments operationally flexible — you can move a VM’s virtual disks from one datastore to another while the VM continues running, without …
- April 10, 2018
ESXi 5.5 to 6.5: The Upgrade Path Nobody Documents Completely
ESXi 5.5 reached end of general support in September 2018, creating real urgency to move environments that had been running the same version for three to four years. The upgrade path to 6.5 (the …
- May 9, 2016
Migrating from XenServer to VMware ESXi: The Practical Guide
At some point the XenServer environments I deployed for cost reasons hit a wall — either the organization’s needs grew beyond what XenServer’s ecosystem could support cleanly, or a …
- September 30, 2014
Planning Your Exchange 2013 to Office 365 Migration: Lessons from the Field
By late 2014, Office 365 had matured to the point where the question wasn’t “should we consider it” but “when do we move.” Organizations that had just completed Exchange …
- April 12, 2013
Exchange 2013: Migrating from 2010 and What We Didn't Expect
Exchange 2013 launched with a significantly revamped architecture, and when the organization I was supporting decided to move off Exchange 2010, I expected a relatively clean migration path. …