Ireland and the United Kingdom enterprise technology-change research

PT-2026-194 · dossier edition · 4 August 2026

PlatformTrace

Enterprise platform change across Ireland and the United Kingdom.

virtualisation platform migration · completed

Regent's University London completes its on-premises move from VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV

Regent's University London fast-tracked two initial clusters and then completed its wider on-premises migration from VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV in roughly two months.

Organisation
Regent's University London, United Kingdom
Predecessor
VMware ESXi supporting the university's on-premises virtualised estate
Destination
Nutanix AHV across the on-premises environment
Workload
Nutanix AHV
Stage
completed
Evidence boundary: The completed claim is limited to the on-premises ESXi-to-AHV transition. The later Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure disaster-recovery programme was not yet fully implemented in the source.

Verified platform change

Regent's University London fast-tracked two initial clusters and then completed its wider on-premises migration from VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV in roughly two months.

Transition

From: VMware ESXi supporting the university's on-premises virtualised estate

To: Nutanix AHV across the on-premises environment

Known unknowns

The completed claim is limited to the on-premises ESXi-to-AHV transition. The later Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure disaster-recovery programme was not yet fully implemented in the source.

Official sources

  1. Regent's University London moves away from VMware with Nutanix — 2025-12-12