WWT Market Scan: Hypervisor Capability Comparison
What to Expect
This interactive 4-hour workshop is facilitated live with your team. Together we will:
Assess Your Environment & Goals Review your current virtualization footprint, cloud strategy, workload diversity, compliance requirements, and any migration constraints — including Broadcom licensing concerns.
Compare Platform Capabilities Evaluate how each vendor approaches enterprise hypervisor infrastructure:
- VMware VCF – Full-stack SDDC with deep vSphere integration, now under Broadcom's licensing model.
- Microsoft Hyper-V + SCVMM – Windows-native hypervisor with broad ecosystem integration and familiar management tooling.
- Nutanix NCI Ultimate – HCI-native hypervisor with strong AHV adoption, built-in storage, and multi-cloud mobility.
- Red Hat OpenShift Virt + ACM – KVM-based virtualization tightly integrated with OpenShift for teams converging VMs and containers.
- Azure Local – Microsoft's on-premises cloud infrastructure platform delivering Azure services in your data center.
Build a Weighted Scorecard Score each platform across 48 criteria in 6 domains using WWT's pre-assessed capability scores and your team's live relevance weighting. Domains include:
- Architecture & Deployment Model
- Resiliency & Disaster Recovery
- Security & Compliance
- Management, Automation & TCO
- Storage, Networking & Container Platform
- Migration, Adoption & Vendor Strategy
Goals & Objectives
Navigate the Hypervisor Market with Confidence
Outcomes
- Accelerated Decision-Making: Focus your evaluation on the platforms most aligned to your environment, backed by WWT's lab-validated capability scores.
- Cross-Team Alignment: Establish a shared evaluation framework across infrastructure, security, and application teams.
- Independent Insight: Leverage WWT's vendor-neutral expertise and Advanced Technology Center testing — not vendor marketing.
- Actionable Deliverables: Receive a compiled report with weighted scores, key differentiators, and recommended next steps, delivered at a follow-up session.
Who Should Attend
- Infrastructure and Virtualization Architects
- Security and Compliance Leads
- Application Owners and DevOps Leads
- IT Directors and VPs of Infrastructure
- Finance or Procurement Stakeholders involved in platform decisions
Benefits
Down-Select & Roadmap Narrow the field to the platforms best suited to your environment and define clear next steps — such as a proof-of-concept, lab validation, or migration planning engagement.