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What Live Optics collects, and what it quietly does not
First in a short series on the tool everyone runs before a storage or platform proposal. Knowing the shape of the data is the difference between a sizing and a guess.
Virtualization
VMware, AHV, KubeVirt, and life after the renewal.
008
From collection to proposal: write the assumptions on the page
Last in the Live Optics series. The arithmetic between the data and the recommendation is where every argument happens, and it is almost always invisible.
007
The order I read a Broadcom renewal quote in
Most people open the VMware renewal at the total. That number is the last thing you should look at, and by then you have already lost the argument.
006
Nutanix is not a drop-in for vSphere, and pretending otherwise costs you month four
AHV will run your VMs. That was never the risky part. The risk is in the twenty things around the VM that you forgot were vSphere features.
005
An RVTools export is not an assessment
Everybody starts with the same spreadsheet. Almost nobody reads the twelve columns that change the answer, and every vendor tool quietly fills the gaps in its own favour.
004
A migration wave plan that survives the change board
Sequencing is where platform migrations succeed or fail. Here is the ordering logic I use, and why the first wave should be boring on purpose.
003
What to do with the VMs nobody can identify
Every estate has them. Powered on, consuming capacity, owned by no one, named something like SRV-TEMP-02. Here is a decommissioning process that is safe and actually completes.
002
Hyper-V in 2026: the option people keep forgetting to price
It is in the licence you already own, it runs production for very large organisations, and it is routinely left off shortlists for reasons that stopped being true a decade ago.
001
Proxmox in the enterprise: where it fits and where it does not
It went from a homelab favourite to a serious contender fast. The technology is sound; the questions worth asking are about support, scale and who operates it.