Simplifying VM Migrations
SUSE, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
SUSE details new tooling that reduces the manual mapping work involved in migrating VMs from vSphere to SUSE Virtualization.
Migrating virtual machines from vSphere to SUSE Virtualization has historically been high-friction and error-prone, with administrators hand-mapping networks, storage and metadata across dissimilar environments.
SUSE describes those long manual processes as disconnected from the rest of the management workflow, which is where much of the risk and delay comes from.
The post walks through work to make the lift-and-shift experience part of the normal management flow rather than a separate project. It is aimed at infrastructure administrators evaluating alternatives to VMware as licensing and vendor dynamics shift.