A licensing or renewal decision under time pressure
Broadcom's changes to VMware licensing have pushed some organisations into a decision they didn't plan for this year.
Enterprise engineering
Make the next VMware Cloud Foundation decision with the whole environment in view.
Kritical plans and delivers VMware Cloud Foundation work around the workloads, infrastructure and operating responsibilities that depend on it. Start with the problem to resolve, from a platform assessment to a scoped migration or upgrade, and get a written scope and price before anything changes.
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What VMware Cloud Foundation is.
Broadcom builds VMware Cloud Foundation as a full-stack private-cloud platform: integrated compute, storage, networking, security and management delivered through vSphere, vSAN and NSX, with self-service automation on top so a team can provision VMs and containers without waiting on a ticket queue. VMware Cloud Foundation supports NVIDIA GPUs for private AI workloads. Support for other accelerators varies by release, so we check the current Broadcom compatibility guide for the hardware you plan to buy. You shouldn't have to guess what that means for your own estate — we translate the platform's actual capability into what your workloads, your recovery requirements and your operating team can support.
Three situations bring infrastructure teams to this page.
You don't need a finished target design to start this conversation.
A platform that's ageing faster than the roadmap admits
Hosts, storage or networking components are approaching end of support and nobody has mapped what depends on them.
A stalled AI or high-performance project
Private AI or GPU workloads are being considered on the existing virtualisation platform, but nobody has sized the whole stack yet.
What you get.
A useful assessment starts with the installed versions, topology, workload requirements and operational condition — not an assumed target design.
A dependency map, not a version number
Compute, storage, networking, management services and every system that depends on them, mapped before we recommend anything.
A design that covers the whole stack
Management domain, workload domains, connectivity, identity, certificates, backup integration and monitoring, alongside hardware and software compatibility.
Licensing checked against your actual entitlement
Not inferred from technical capability — checked against the commercial arrangement you hold.
A recoverable delivery sequence
Prerequisites, maintenance windows, workload sequencing and the conditions that stop a change, agreed before we touch production.
Why Kritical for VMware Cloud Foundation.
The proposal applies the same engineering disciplines—scope, evidence, testing, rollback and handover—to a platform where a mistake may be expensive to unwind.
Prerequisites
Identify prerequisites before implementation.
Maintenance window
Use a window agreed for the environment.
Workload sequence
Sequence workloads around the planned change.
Recovery evidence
Define stopping conditions and evidence before proceeding.
How it's priced, and what handover looks like.
A scoped assessment, migration, upgrade or remediation is quoted in writing before work starts — the licence and support entitlements you already hold are identified separately and never assumed included. Handover can include the implemented design, configuration records, runbooks and a list of unresolved constraints. Ongoing platform management and vendor support stay explicit responsibilities, including who handles an incident after the project closes.
What happens next.
Bring the current vCenter and host versions, the workloads involved and the change you're considering.
First call
We confirm whether this is an assessment, a migration or a remediation, and what evidence we need to scope it.
The agreed first phase
A scoped assessment covering the dependency map, the compatibility position and a recommended path, priced in writing.
Get a quote
Send the systems and constraints involved and we quote the work.
Questions before you enquire
Do you only work on new VCF deployments?
No. Tell us about an existing environment, planned upgrade, migration or technical issue. We can scope an assessment before recommending an implementation path.
Can you advise on staying with VMware or moving?
Yes. We compare options against workload dependencies, operating effort, migration risk and commercial inputs. The result should support your decision rather than assume a replacement.
Is licensing or vendor support included?
Not automatically. Required entitlements, support arrangements and any procurement work are identified in the scope and confirmed separately.
What if Broadcom's licensing changes affect us mid-contract?
We factor the current commercial terms into the assessment and flag where a licensing change affects the technical design, rather than treating licensing as someone else's problem.
Can you handle private AI on the same platform?
Yes. We size the model, accelerator, storage, network and facility requirements alongside the virtualisation platform so the AI decision doesn't get made in isolation.
Related services
Data centres
When a room needs planning, filling or maintaining and your own people cannot be on site, Kritical plans the commissioning and decommissioning of physical data centres, then puts hands on the equipment: rack and stack, cabling, backup media changes and remote hands.
On-premises AI
Buying a GPU server or high-performance computing cluster before sizing the workload creates costly capacity, facilities and operating risk.
Backup & recovery
Kritical assesses backup and disaster-recovery arrangements against the systems your organisation needs to restore.
Networks
When connectivity, segmentation or platform integration is limiting the business, Kritical assesses and changes the network around application requirements, so your team can resolve the constraint and operate it with confidence afterwards.
VM hardware compatibility
The newest virtual hardware version is not automatically the right one.
Let’s define the next step.
Tell us what you want to achieve, what you have today and when it matters.