VMware migration is infamously laborious. But for Dartmouth College, it turned out to be the best infrastructure decision the university never planned to make.
The university completed its migration to Nutanix Inc. infrastructure — including its Acropolis Hypervisor — years before enterprise procurement teams began stress-testing their VMware contracts, and well before predictions that cost pressures would drive 70% of enterprise VMware customers worldwide to migrate half their virtual workloads by 2028. The decision came down to contract timing, not market anxiety — yet the outcome was the same: a simplified foundation that has since become a model for what AI-ready replatforming can look like, according to Ty Peavey (pictured, right), director of infrastructure services at Dartmouth College.
“We were in a really unique situation where both our contracts with VMware and with our hardware vendors were coming to term at the same time,” Peavey said. “We did…
