Lenovo has a hunch you’re about to try quitting VMware

Lenovo has a hunch that some of you are about to shift to a different hypervisor and has created hardware to make the move easier.

As explained to The Register by Kumar Mitra, Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group’s executive director for Central Asia Pacific, plus Australia and New Zealand, some organizations are contemplating cloud repatriation projects to on-prem hyperconverged or private cloud rigs.

“A lot of customers are looking for a pathway to move off the VMware platform,” Mitra added. “What we are seeing is customers are now open to doing more pilots, more proof of concepts.”

While hyperconverged and server virtualization stacks require vanilla x86 servers and off-the-shelf components, vendors like Lenovo traditionally create SKUs tuned to each stack’s peculiarities. The Chinese company therefore offers HX series appliances tuned for Nutanix, the VX series designed to run VMware, and the MX series to run Microsoft Azure Local.

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