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Workshop: Beyond VMware: Navigating Virtualisation in Higher Education

Jul 20 2026, 09:00 - 10:30 (Melbourne/Sydney time)

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Concord

Current State
What hypervisor platforms are people running today? Any mixed environments?
Impact of the Broadcom acquisition?
Percentage of workload - bare metal vs virtualization vs cloud services?

Future Direction
What are people currently evaluating?
What does the next 2-5 years look like?

Migration & Transition
For those that have moved away from Broadcom, how was the transition?
Legacy workload issues (old OSes, hardware dependencies)
Live migrations vs scheduled downtime windows?

Operations / Staffing
Skill gaps during migration?
Change in DR / Backups?