Move Beyond
Traditional Virtualisation
— Why Move —
Why organisations are moving beyond VMware
Licensing economics, sovereignty obligations and AI workloads have changed the virtualisation decision for every enterprise infrastructure team.
Licensing Cost Escalation
Bundled subscription repackaging and core-count minimums have reset virtualisation budgets across the enterprise.
Vendor & Sovereignty Risk
Concentration on a single hypervisor vendor conflicts with sovereignty, resilience and procurement policy.
Architectural Lock-In
Proprietary formats and management planes restrict portability across cloud, data centre and edge.
AI & GPU Workloads
Legacy virtualisation was never designed for GPU pass-through, inference pipelines and distributed AI estates.
— Migration Methodology —
A proven five-stage migration framework
Discovery & Assessment
Inventory of clusters, hosts, VMs, storage, networking and licence exposure with a dependency map and risk register.
Target Architecture
CoreX design covering KVM compute, storage topology, network fabric, HA domains, backup and DR posture.
Pilot Migration
A representative wave is migrated and validated for performance, resiliency, backup and operational runbooks.
Wave Migration
Automated conversion of VMware, Hyper-V and OpenStack workloads in scheduled waves with rollback at every gate.
Operate & Optimise
Unified lifecycle management, observability, patching and capacity optimisation under one control fabric.
— Architecture —
Open virtualisation, one control fabric
CoreX combines KVM-based virtualisation, private cloud and OpenStack-compatible operations with unified orchestration across every location you run workloads.
Open Virtualisation on KVM
Enterprise KVM/HXI virtualisation with live migration, HA, snapshots and no per-VM licence caps.
Private Cloud & OpenStack
Self-service private cloud with tenancy, quotas and OpenStack-compatible operating models.
VMs and Containers Together
Run virtual machines and Kubernetes workloads side by side on the same distributed platform.
Hyper-V & VMware Conversion
Automated image conversion and cutover tooling for VMware vSphere, Hyper-V and OpenStack estates.
Cloud to Data Centre to Edge
One control plane spanning public cloud, private cloud, data centre and edge nodes.
GPU & AI Ready
GPU pass-through and inference-optimised scheduling for enterprise AI workloads.
— Business Benefits —
Lower cost. More control.
Modernisation is a commercial decision as much as a technical one. CoreX changes both sides of the equation.
- Predictable per-node licensing with no core counting or VM counting
- Materially lower total cost of ownership versus renewed VMware subscriptions
- Portability across cloud, private cloud, data centre and edge
- Sovereign and regulated deployment options
- Unified lifecycle management, observability and support
- Migration services delivered by HookZ Systems and certified partners