- Organisation
- Forestry and Land Scotland
- Predecessor
- approximately 300 virtual machines supporting applications, databases and services on Nutanix infrastructure in a private data centre, with Azure used for backup
- Destination
- the virtual-machine estate moved to Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure without application refactoring, ending the private hardware estate while preserving bounded application architecture
- Workload
- Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Microsoft Azure
- Stage
- completed
Verified platform change
Forestry and Land Scotland completed an 18-month move of approximately 300 virtual machines to Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure and reports being free of its hardware estate since November 2023.
Transition
From: approximately 300 virtual machines supporting applications, databases and services on Nutanix infrastructure in a private data centre, with Azure used for backup
To: the virtual-machine estate moved to Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure without application refactoring, ending the private hardware estate while preserving bounded application architecture
Known unknowns
The source supports the bounded infrastructure migration and hardware-exit milestone. It does not prove every application was rewritten for native Azure services or that every legacy component was retired. Cost, carbon and power outcomes are organisation-reported.