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Virtualisation, HCI and Private Cloud
A hypervisor migration is blocked by three or four applications with no supported path rather than by the hypervisor. Move one workload group before renewal.
You are being asked to make a ten-year architecture decision on somebody else's renewal date.
The licence line is the visible part and it is not the risky part. The risk is a migration run to an external deadline, on the platform that carries production, with an application set nobody has fully inventoried.
Where SECCOM stops. A support statement for your application on a new platform is the application publisher's to give. SECCOM collects those statements and tells you which ones are missing before the plan is signed.
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