Modernizing VMware Using Azure Native Services: The Journey to Cloud-First Architecture
Before 1 November 2026, every pay-as-you-go Azure VMware Solution customer must supply a portable VCF licence key bought from Broadcom. That deadline turned a long-running architecture debate into a scheduling problem. Here is what modernizing VMware using Azure native services actually involves: the four destinations a workload can land in, why Azure Arc should come before any migration, what the business case really looks like across three years, and the limits nobody puts on the slide.