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Two decades of VMware delivery — and no obligation to sell you more of it.
Our depth started with VMware and it still matters. It is also not the only answer we bring. Platform, cloud, backup and AI decisions get made in the open, with the trade-offs attached.
Where the depth comes from
We have been doing this since before virtualisation was obvious.
Virta's virtualisation practice began in the era when a hypervisor still had to be argued for: physical server sprawl, one application per box, and a business case built on doing more with hardware that was already paid for. Two decades later the same consultants are designing private cloud and private AI platforms.
That continuity is the point. VMware remains one of the most capable platforms in the market, and a great deal of Australian enterprise infrastructure runs on it. We know it deeply — the design patterns, the failure modes, the licensing arithmetic, and what it costs to keep it healthy.
What has changed is that it is no longer automatically the right answer for every organisation. Per-core subscription pricing rewrote that calculation for a lot of smaller estates. Sometimes the answer is still VMware. Sometimes it is Proxmox, Hyper-V, a public cloud, or a mix. We would rather have that argument with you in the design phase than have it surface as a surprise in year three.
Our position
Vendor-neutral, in the sense that actually matters
Neutrality is not having no opinion. It is giving you the recommendation together with the reasons it could be wrong, and being willing to implement the option you choose even when it earns us less.
Practically, that means every platform proposal we write includes the cheaper alternative, the migration effort it implies, and what it shifts onto your team.
Platforms & relationships
What we work with.
Long-standing relationships with the vendors below, alongside platforms where the relationship is with a community rather than a licence desk.
Virtualisation & private cloud
- VMware (Broadcom)Two decades of vSphere design, migration, tuning and support. Our deepest commercial platform relationship.
- Proxmox VEWhere licence cost outweighs the feature delta — increasingly often.
- Microsoft Hyper-VAlready-licensed, Windows-centric estates.
- KVM & open stacksCommodity hardware, custom automation, hosting platforms.
Cloud, identity & productivity
- Microsoft 365Mail, collaboration, identity and the governance around them.
- Entra IDConditional access, MFA and joining the two worlds together.
- Azure & AWSWorkloads that belong there — and the hybrid patterns that connect them back.
- LinuxRHEL, Debian and Ubuntu estates, and everything quietly running on them.
Data protection
- VeeamBackup, replication and recovery design for virtual and cloud estates.
- Immutable & air-gapped copiesRansomware is a recovery design problem before it is a detection problem.
- Recovery testingScheduled restores, documented results, no assumptions.
Open-source platforms
- Proxmox, KVM, LinuxRemoving recurring licence cost without adding unmanaged risk.
- Open-weight AI modelsThe practical foundation of private AI, and the reason it is affordable on-premises.
- Community support, commercial where it countsSubscription support is usually the honest choice for production.
Private AI
- Open-weight model familiesSelected for the task, the hardware and the licence — not the leaderboard.
- Local inference stacksServing tuned to your concurrency and latency tolerance.
- Retrieval & indexingAnswers grounded in your documents, with sources.
- Agentic toolingAssistants that act inside approved workflows, with a human in the loop.
Licensing
- Specified as requiredLicensing specified and assisted as part of a piece of work, checked against what you already own.
How a platform decision gets made
Four questions, in this order.
- What problem is this actually solving? If the answer is “the vendor’s roadmap says so”, we have not finished.
- What does it cost over three years? Not the first invoice — licences, support, hardware, training and the operational effort to keep it current.
- Who runs it on a Tuesday? Skills available now, not skills hoped for. A platform nobody can operate is a liability with good documentation.
- What is the exit? How hard is it to leave, and what does leaving look like two years from now?
The recommendation that survives those four questions is the one we will recommend — even when it is the smaller sale.
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Verify any partner claim before you rely on it
Certification levels and partner status change with every vendor’s program restructure, and this page is not a substitute for the register. If a specific accreditation matters to your procurement process, ask us for the current evidence and we will provide it rather than asking you to take a logo’s word for it.
This is the same standard we would apply to a supplier quoting us.
Bring us your platform decision.
Fifteen years into a licence agreement, mid-migration, or starting from nothing — the questions are the same and they are cheaper to answer early.