The renewal got harder. The migration doesn't have to be a gamble.
Broadcom replaced perpetual VMware licensing with subscription bundles and higher minimums. For a 200-800 VM estate, that often means paying enterprise pricing for capacity you don't use. Azure VMware Solution is Microsoft's first-party answer: your VMware stack, running on dedicated Azure infrastructure, co-engineered with VMware and billed through Azure consumption.
vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and HCX run natively. No hypervisor conversion, no reformatting VMs, no application rewrites.
Bulk and live vMotion migrations in planned waves, with minimal downtime and a rollback path intact throughout.
Low-latency access to Defender for Cloud, Azure Backup, Azure NetApp Files, Entra ID, and Monitor, with nothing to rebuild.
Land first, then refactor to AKS, Azure SQL, or PaaS selectively, when the business case is there and not under a renewal deadline.
A method built for mid-market estates, not slideware.
Estate & cost model
Inventory and dependency mapping, AVS node sizing, and a side-by-side cost model against your renewal quote.
Landing zone
Azure landing zone, ExpressRoute/VPN networking, identity, NSX policy, and a security baseline mapped to your controls.
HCX waves
Workloads migrate in validated waves with planned cutover windows and rollback. Operations stay running throughout.
Right-size & roadmap
Node right-sizing, reserved-instance and MACC alignment, and a modernization roadmap you control.
The experience to do it right, without the overhead you'd pay for it.
You shouldn't have to choose between a generalist MSP that's never run an AVS cutover and a Tier-1 firm that staffs your project with juniors and bills like it didn't.
The people who plan it run it
Your migration is led by practitioners who have built, run, and migrated these environments for a living. The person who scopes the work is the one who executes it.
Fluent on both sides of the migration
Our team has run vSphere in production and designed on Azure for years. HCX migration waves and Azure landing zones are familiar ground, and we bring networking, identity, and security together under one accountable team.
Sized for 100-5,000-employee estates
Growth-stage and mid-market organizations get the project discipline and architecture of a large-firm engagement, with direct access to the people doing the work and none of the layers that slow it down.
The kind of migrations we're built for.
A 400-VM firm facing a 3x renewal, with document-management and time-and-billing systems that can't go dark.
Lift-and-shift to AVS via HCX, cutover windows measured in minutes, secure client-data segregation preserved.
An engineering firm running CAD/BIM workloads across multiple offices on aging on-prem vSphere.
AVS landing zone with right-sized nodes, large-file performance protected, project-based access for subcontractors.
A multi-property operator consolidating fragmented datacenters ahead of a VMware renewal cliff.
Consolidation into a single governed AVS environment, PMS integration intact, billed against existing Azure commitment.
Representative engagement profiles drawn from the segments and estate sizes Dark Networks serves. Named references available under NDA on request.
Go deeper on your own, or talk it through with us.
Take the migration kit and read up at your own pace, or put 30 minutes on the calendar for a straight read on your renewal from someone who knows these migrations.
Straight answers before you commit.
Will the migration disrupt operations?
Workloads move in planned waves using VMware HCX, with bulk and live vMotion options and a rollback path at every step. Cutover windows are scheduled around your operations, and for most VMs they're measured in minutes.
Do we have to refactor or modernize now?
No. Lift-and-shift lands your VMware estate on AVS as-is. Modernizing to AKS, Azure SQL, or other PaaS is a separate, optional phase you sequence on your own timeline and business case, not under renewal pressure.
How is Azure VMware Solution billed?
AVS is a first-party Azure service billed through Azure consumption, and it counts toward a Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC). Reserved instances bring the run-rate down further. We model this against your renewal quote during the assessment.
Is our team's VMware experience wasted?
No. That's the point of AVS. Your team keeps using vCenter, vSphere, vSAN, and NSX with the same tools and runbooks. Azure takes over the infrastructure underneath, and the operating model your team knows stays the same.
What if renewing actually is the better call?
Then we'll tell you. The assessment compares AVS against your renewal honestly, including the case for renewing short-term while you plan a measured exit. We're not paid to move you. We're paid to get the decision right.