005
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.
004
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.
003
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.
002
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.
001
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.