Why Oxford is in the middle of every current migration cycle
Oxford concentrates firms feeling current migration triggers — VMware Broadcom on University + OUH estates, Cisco EOL across multi-site Oxon CC networks, OUH cloud-shift, Oxford spinout cloud-native modernisation.
VMware → Nutanix for Oxford regulated estates
Broadcom's pricing is forcing the question on OUH + Oxford University departments. VMware → Nutanix AHV most common destination.
University research compute modernisation
Oxford University departments modernising legacy HPC to modern GPU clusters with cloud-bridge design.
Oxford spinout on-prem → cloud
Oxford Nanopore-class spinouts lift-and-shifting from on-prem to AWS / Azure with SOC 2 evidence prepared.
Exchange-on-prem → M365 for Oxon CC + colleges
Frequent second-wave for Oxford public-sector and colleges — Exchange-on-prem to M365 GCC / education.
What a Servnet Oxford migration delivers
Discovery + bill-of-quantities
Complete picture of the current estate turned into a migration BoQ.
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.
Term-break or weekend cutover windows
For Oxford University customers, cutover during term breaks (Christmas / Easter / summer); for others Friday-evening to Sunday.
Old-platform decommission + ITAD
Once the new platform has run clean, decommission begins.
Oxford migration engagements we run
- ▸OUH VMware → NutanixOUH (John Radcliffe, Churchill, Nuffield, Horton) migrating from vSphere to Nutanix AHV — DSP Toolkit + HSCN retained.
- ▸Oxford University HPC modernisationUniversity departments modernising HPC estates with hybrid cloud-bridge design, GPU cluster migrations.
- ▸Oxford spinouts on-prem → AWSOxford Nanopore-class spinouts moving from on-prem to AWS eu-west-2 — with SOC 2 evidence prepared.
- ▸Oxon CC Cisco → Fortinet multi-siteOxon CC estate + 4 districts consolidating Cisco ASA + Meraki onto FortiGate + FortiSwitch.
- ▸BMW Cowley supplier consolidationBMW Cowley supplier-chain customers consolidating multi-site IT onto Nutanix HCI with IT/OT segregation retained.
- ▸Universities + colleges to M365 + AzureOxford colleges + Oxford Brookes migrating Exchange-on-prem + on-prem file servers to M365.
How an Oxford 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 environment built.
Weeks 5–8 — wave migrations
Production workloads migrated in 4–6 waves.
Weeks 9–10 — soak + decom
New platform runs clean for soak.
Oxford vendor migrations — common questions
We're an Oxford firm with 150 VMs on vSphere — Broadcom has tripled. What's right?
For most Oxford firms with that footprint, Nutanix AHV or vSAN ESA. Model 3-year TCO including migration cost.
Can you migrate OUH / John Radcliffe to Azure without HSCN breakage?
Yes — frequent NHS engagement. We retain HSCN connectivity throughout the migration.
Can you do migration work during Oxford University term breaks?
Yes — University change-window work typically scheduled during Christmas / Easter / summer vacation breaks.
Can you do Cisco → Fortinet across Oxon CC + 4 districts?
In most cases yes — install Fortinet in parallel, migrate sites one at a time.
How long does 150-VM VMware → Nutanix take in Oxford?
Discovery → final-VM-on-new-platform is typically 10–14 weeks.
We're an Oxford spinout wanting cloud-native AWS from inception?
Yes — frequent engagement for OSI portfolio companies. AWS landing-zone design, Terraform-based IaC, SOC 2-ready from day one.
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