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VxRail Impact Assessment

Dell VxRail Transition Service

Navigate the strategic shift in Dell's VxRail approach with confidence

Dell is shifting focus from VxRail. Understand your options, risks, and the best path forward for your infrastructure.

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Strategic Shift

Multiple Paths

Risk Mitigation

Clear Decision

The VxRail Landscape is Changing

Dell's strategic shift away from VxRail, combined with Broadcom's VMware licensing changes, creates uncertainty for customers

What's Happening

  • Dell de-emphasizing VxRail in favor of other infrastructure stacks
  • Focus shifting to vSAN ReadyNodes with OMEVV, PowerStore, and PowerFlex
  • Broadcom VMware licensing and support models changing significantly
  • Existing VxRail customers facing renewal and upgrade decisions

What You Need

  • Clear understanding of your current VxRail lifecycle and commitments
  • Objective comparison of alternative infrastructure paths
  • Risk assessment for each transition scenario
  • Actionable roadmap with clear timelines and costs
Your Starting Point

VxRail Impact Call

60 Minutes to Clarity

A technical discussion to assess your VxRail situation, evaluate alternatives, and chart the optimal path forward

What We'll Cover

  • 1

    VxRail Inventory & Timeline

    Current deployment, support contracts, renewal dates, and hardware lifecycle

  • 2

    Workload & Dependency Analysis

    Critical applications, performance requirements, compliance needs

  • 3

    Alternative Infrastructure Paths

    Stay with VxRail, move to VCF, migrate to ReadyNodes, or consider hyperconverged alternatives

  • 4

    Broadcom VMware Impact

    New licensing models, support changes, and how they affect your VxRail decision

Your Outcomes

  • Clear Options Matrix

    Side-by-side comparison of stay vs. migrate scenarios with pros/cons

  • Risk Assessment

    Technical, commercial, and operational risks for each path

  • Timeline & Budget Guidance

    Realistic project timelines and cost estimates for each scenario

  • Recommended Action Plan

    Our expert recommendation with clear next steps and decision points

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Your Infrastructure Options

Each path comes with different trade-offs in risk, cost, complexity, and strategic fit.

For most VMware-centric environments, standardising on VCF on vSAN ReadyNodes is the sustainable path forward. VxRail becomes a short-term bridge, not your long-term platform.

Continue VxRail (short-term bridge only)

Keep your existing VxRail clusters running with extended support to buy time for a structured transition.

When it makes sense

  • •You need to stabilise the current environment before starting a migration project
  • •Existing contracts still have runtime and you want to use them
  • •You need a 12–24 month window to prepare a 2027+ refresh

But be aware

  • •Dell is openly de-emphasising VxRail and pushing partners towards Dell Private Cloud and disaggregated stacks
  • •You continue to pay for VxRail software and services although lifecycle and automation are already covered by VCF and the VMware stack
  • •Roadmap and innovation focus are on other Dell platforms (PowerStore/PowerFlex, Dell Private Cloud), not on VxRail
  • •You risk investing further into a platform your main vendor is moving away from
Recommended

Move to VCF

Modernise to VMware Cloud Foundation on vSAN ReadyNodes, integrated with OMEVV on Dell hardware.

Advantages

  • •Aligns with Broadcom's reference architecture and support model for VMware
  • •VCF provides the lifecycle management and automation that VxRail used to add – without the appliance premium
  • •Clear, consistent platform for virtual machines, containers, and modern workloads
  • •Better position for future hardware refreshes and Dell / non-Dell combinations
  • •Multi-cloud and AI-ready foundation for the next 5–7 years

Considerations

  • •Requires a structured migration project (we help design and execute it)
  • •New licensing model that needs to be optimised (we combine licensing and architecture)
  • •Your team may need enablement on VCF operations – which we can bundle into the project

We typically recommend this option for customers who want to stay on VMware and avoid paying twice for lifecycle and automation.

Alternative HCI platforms

Move to other hyperconverged or private cloud platforms (ReadyNodes with non-VMware hypervisors, Nutanix, etc.).

When it can be an option

  • •You actively want to diversify away from VMware as a strategic decision
  • •You are prepared to change tools, processes, and skill sets
  • •You accept a multi-year transformation programme

Considerations

  • •Often requires significant re-architecture of your environment, backup, DR, and operations
  • •Application compatibility and performance behaviour must be re-validated
  • •New licensing, new skills, new runbooks – not just a "hardware change"
  • •TCO is often higher than expected once migration, re-training, and operational risk are factored in

Every Situation Is Unique

The right choice depends on your workloads, timeline, budget, compliance requirements, and internal capabilities. In the VxRail Impact Call, we walk through these options with you, quantify the trade-offs, and give you a clear recommendation – with a concrete roadmap and cost picture.

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Get expert guidance on your VxRail situation. Book a 60-minute Impact Call and gain clarity on your best path forward.

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