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Multi-Tenancy Without the Complexity: Enforced Quotas, Self-Service, VM Leases, and SAML 2.0 — All Included

Providing private cloud resources across multiple teams is a standard deployment model in the modern data center. Whether you’re splitting infrastructure between Finance and Engineering, giving unique customers their own isolated infrastructure, or managing dev, staging, and production as distinct environments,  multi-tenancy is table stakes in a virtualized environment. Deploying and managing isolated environments  is

Multi-Tenancy Without the Complexity: Enforced Quotas, Self-Service, VM Leases, and SAML 2.0 — All Included · · 9 min read

How to Build a Private Cloud Managed Service Practice on Platform9

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware didn’t just raise prices; it broke the math that most MSPs built their managed services practice on. If your margins depended on VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) program pricing, you’ve probably already done the calculation and the numbers don’t work anymore. But the real problem isn’t the cost increase. It’s that

How to Build a Private Cloud Managed Service Practice on Platform9 · · 6 min read

GPU-as-a-Service for MSPs: A New Revenue Line Hiding in your Existing Infrastructure

If you’re an MSP right now, you’re probably managing at least two uncomfortable conversations simultaneously. The first is about your virtualization platform—costs are up, licensing has changed, and everyone wants to know what your VMware story looks like going forward. The second is about AI: customers are asking about it, vendors are pitching it, and

GPU-as-a-Service for MSPs: A New Revenue Line Hiding in your Existing Infrastructure · · 9 min read

How to Talk to Your Customers About Leaving VMware (Without Scaring Them)

A guide for MSPs navigating the VMware conversation with confidence Something shifted in the VMware world when Broadcom completed its acquisition. Licensing costs spiked, support models changed, and customers who had never given a second thought to their virtualization stack were suddenly calling their MSPs asking what it all means. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: your

How to Talk to Your Customers About Leaving VMware (Without Scaring Them) · · 9 min read

Own vs. Rent: Why Your Next Platform Should (Actually) Be Yours

Most managed service providers didn’t see it coming, not because they weren’t paying attention, but because the nature of the risk had been hiding in plain sight. VMware’s pricing overhaul wasn’t just a contract renegotiation. It was a structural revelation: what the industry had long treated as enterprise-standard infrastructure was, in reality, a dependency with

Own vs. Rent: Why Your Next Platform Should (Actually) Be Yours · · 6 min read
Migrating Client VMs at Scale What MSPs Need to Know About vJailbreak

Migrating Client VMs at Scale: What MSPs Need to Know About vJailbreak

The Broadcom acquisition of VMware is disrupting the entire virtualization market. For many organizations the new world order just doesn’t work: licensing costs have ballooned, support models have shifted, and the long-term roadmap feels murkier than ever. The fallout is an urgent wave of VMware displacement that shows no signs of slowing down. For Managed

Migrating Client VMs at Scale: What MSPs Need to Know About vJailbreak · · 9 min read
The MSP Guide to Delivering Safe VMware Exits

The MSP Guide to Delivering Safe VMware Exits

As enterprises struggle to devise a VMware exit, many will turn to Managed Service Providers (MSPs) for assistance in planning and executing a successful, non-disruptive migration of their virtual infrastructure. This presents a unique opportunity for MSPs who can deliver a migration strategy that brings value to their clients while improving their services bottom line.

The MSP Guide to Delivering Safe VMware Exits · · 4 min read

Life After VMware: Accelerating VMware Exits with In-Place Migration

In the post-Broadcom landscape of 2026, the focus  has changed from “Do I have to exit” to “What’s the best migration plan?” Organizations are no longer just looking for a new hypervisor; they are looking for an exit strategy that doesn’t interrupt their business or overload their resources. Finding the right migration strategy has the

Life After VMware: Accelerating VMware Exits with In-Place Migration · · 5 min read
The End of VCSP and How MSPs Can Cope With Change

The End of VCSP and How MSPs Can Cope With Change

Broadcom ended the VCSP program, leaving thousands of MSP and CSPs with an expiration date on their virtualization licenses. Now what? The clock is ticking and service providers need to find an alternative solution that maintains their margins, provides at the very least equivalent enterprise-level virtualization features, and preserves their operational model. On top of

The End of VCSP and How MSPs Can Cope With Change · · 5 min read
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