Why Aberdeen is in the middle of every current migration cycle
Aberdeen concentrates oil + gas IT modernisation (post-2014 price-crash cost pressure) + NHS Grampian cloud-shift + ETZ pivot to renewables.
VMware → Nutanix for Aberdeen oil + gas
Broadcom's pricing forcing the question on oil + gas IT estates already under cost pressure from 2014+ oil price collapse.
NHS Grampian + NHS Scotland cloud-shift
NHS Grampian migrating off ageing on-prem to Crown Hosting or Azure UK-South — NHS Scotland IG retained.
Cisco → Fortinet for oil + gas multi-site
Aberdeen oil + gas + subsea customers with multi-site / multi-region IT consolidating Cisco onto Fortinet single-pane.
ETZ infrastructure for renewables
ETZ tenants designing renewable-energy infrastructure from inception — cloud-native, GPU-enabled for wind simulation.
What a Servnet Aberdeen migration delivers
Discovery + bill-of-quantities
Complete picture of the current estate.
Target architecture design
Reference architecture for the destination platform.
Pilot environment in week 3-4
Non-production pilot built on the new platform.
Wave-based migration with parallel-run
Production workloads migrated in waves.
Offshore-campaign-aware cutover windows
For oil + gas customers, cutover planned around offshore campaign windows.
Old-platform decommission + ITAD
Once the new platform has run clean, decommission begins.
Aberdeen migration engagements we run
- ▸Oil + gas VMware → NutanixBP / Shell / TotalEnergies / Equinor + supplier-chain with 200–800 VMs moving from vSphere to Nutanix AHV — IT/OT segregation retained.
- ▸NHS Grampian to Crown Hosting / AzureNHS Grampian migrating off ageing on-prem to Crown Hosting or Azure UK-South.
- ▸Subsea engineering consolidationWood Group, ASCO, Acteon consolidating multi-site IT onto Nutanix HCI.
- ▸ETZ renewables cloud-nativeETZ tenants designing cloud-native renewables infrastructure from inception.
- ▸Oil + gas multi-site Cisco → FortinetMulti-site oil + gas + subsea consolidating Cisco onto FortiGate + FortiSwitch.
- ▸University of Aberdeen + RGU to M365 + AzureUniversity of Aberdeen, RGU migrating Exchange-on-prem + on-prem file servers to M365.
How an Aberdeen migration runs week-by-week
Weeks 1–2 — discovery + estate map
Automated discovery + interviews with application owners.
Weeks 3–4 — target design + pilot build
Target architecture signed off. Pilot built.
Weeks 5–8 — wave migrations
Production workloads migrated in 4–6 waves.
Weeks 9–10 — soak + decom
New platform runs clean for soak.
Aberdeen vendor migrations — common questions
We're an Aberdeen oil + gas firm with 300 VMs on vSphere — Broadcom has tripled. What's right?
Nutanix AHV is the most common destination for oil + gas — predictable per-node pricing, IT/OT segregation retained.
Can you migrate around offshore campaign windows?
Yes — for oil + gas customers we plan migrations around offshore campaign windows + maintenance shutdowns.
Can you migrate NHS Grampian to Azure without SWAN breakage?
Yes — we retain SWAN connectivity throughout.
Can you do Cisco → Fortinet across oil + gas multi-site / multi-region?
In most cases yes — install Fortinet in parallel, migrate sites one at a time.
How long does 300-VM VMware → Nutanix take in Aberdeen?
Discovery → decom typically 12–16 weeks for oil + gas estates (slightly longer than typical due to IT/OT complexity).
Can you design cloud-native renewables infrastructure for ETZ tenants?
Yes — frequent engagement for ETZ pivot. Cloud-native AWS / Azure from inception, GPU-enabled for wind simulation.
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