Vendor migrations in Oxford —
VMware, Cisco, on-prem to cloud, done safely.
Servnet runs parallel-run vendor migrations for Oxford businesses facing Broadcom-era VMware pricing, Cisco end-of-life, on-prem to cloud consolidation. Discovery → pilot → migration waves → decommission. Oxford cutovers happen during University term breaks or weekend windows so Monday open is clean across colleges, OUH, spinouts and BMW Cowley.
Why Oxford is in the middle of every current migration cycle
Oxford concentrates firms feeling current migration triggers — VMware Broadcom on University + OUH estates, Cisco EOL across multi-site Oxon CC networks, OUH cloud-shift, Oxford spinout cloud-native modernisation.
VMware → Nutanix for Oxford regulated estates
Broadcom's pricing is forcing the question on OUH + Oxford University departments. VMware → Nutanix AHV most common destination.
University research compute modernisation
Oxford University departments modernising legacy HPC to modern GPU clusters with cloud-bridge design.
Oxford spinout on-prem → cloud
Oxford Nanopore-class spinouts lift-and-shifting from on-prem to AWS / Azure with SOC 2 evidence prepared.
Exchange-on-prem → M365 for Oxon CC + colleges
Frequent second-wave for Oxford public-sector and colleges — Exchange-on-prem to M365 GCC / education.
What a Servnet Oxford migration delivers
Discovery + bill-of-quantities
Complete picture of the current estate turned into a migration BoQ.
Target architecture design
Reference architecture for the destination platform.
Pilot environment in week 3-4
Non-production pilot built on the new platform.
Wave-based migration with parallel-run
Production workloads migrated in waves.
Term-break or weekend cutover windows
For Oxford University customers, cutover during term breaks (Christmas / Easter / summer); for others Friday-evening to Sunday.
Old-platform decommission + ITAD
Once the new platform has run clean, decommission begins.
Oxford migration engagements we run
- ▸OUH VMware → NutanixOUH (John Radcliffe, Churchill, Nuffield, Horton) migrating from vSphere to Nutanix AHV — DSP Toolkit + HSCN retained.
- ▸Oxford University HPC modernisationUniversity departments modernising HPC estates with hybrid cloud-bridge design, GPU cluster migrations.
- ▸Oxford spinouts on-prem → AWSOxford Nanopore-class spinouts moving from on-prem to AWS eu-west-2 — with SOC 2 evidence prepared.
- ▸Oxon CC Cisco → Fortinet multi-siteOxon CC estate + 4 districts consolidating Cisco ASA + Meraki onto FortiGate + FortiSwitch.
- ▸BMW Cowley supplier consolidationBMW Cowley supplier-chain customers consolidating multi-site IT onto Nutanix HCI with IT/OT segregation retained.
- ▸Universities + colleges to M365 + AzureOxford colleges + Oxford Brookes migrating Exchange-on-prem + on-prem file servers to M365.
How an Oxford migration runs week-by-week
Weeks 1–2 — discovery + estate map
Automated discovery + interviews with application owners.
Weeks 3–4 — target design + pilot build
Target architecture signed off. Pilot environment built.
Weeks 5–8 — wave migrations
Production workloads migrated in 4–6 waves.
Weeks 9–10 — soak + decom
New platform runs clean for soak.
Oxford vendor migrations — common questions
We're an Oxford firm with 150 VMs on vSphere — Broadcom has tripled. What's right?
For most Oxford firms with that footprint, Nutanix AHV or vSAN ESA. Model 3-year TCO including migration cost.
Can you migrate OUH / John Radcliffe to Azure without HSCN breakage?
Yes — frequent NHS engagement. We retain HSCN connectivity throughout the migration.
Can you do migration work during Oxford University term breaks?
Yes — University change-window work typically scheduled during Christmas / Easter / summer vacation breaks.
Can you do Cisco → Fortinet across Oxon CC + 4 districts?
In most cases yes — install Fortinet in parallel, migrate sites one at a time.
How long does 150-VM VMware → Nutanix take in Oxford?
Discovery → final-VM-on-new-platform is typically 10–14 weeks.
We're an Oxford spinout wanting cloud-native AWS from inception?
Yes — frequent engagement for OSI portfolio companies. AWS landing-zone design, Terraform-based IaC, SOC 2-ready from day one.
Other services we deliver in Oxford
Facing a VMware bill, Cisco EOL or cloud migration in Oxford?
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