VMware Exit: Why DR Readiness Matters More Than The Hypervisor
StorageSwiss, Monday, October 13th, 2025
Most organizations planning their VMware Exit view it as a hypervisor replacement project. That narrow goal hides a larger opportunity: the chance to modernize data protection and recovery.
The migration process highlights the failure of legacy disaster recovery strategies to keep pace with modern infrastructure requirements. For many IT teams, the VMware Exit is the best chance in a decade to rebuild protection and recovery correctly.
From its earliest releases, VMware's architecture relied on an ecosystem of third-party tools for backup, replication, and disaster recovery orchestration. Each product solved a portion of the problem but introduced new dependencies and blind spots.