It was magic. The physical server, previously a single monolith, was now a pool of resources. He installed vCenter, the management brain of the operation, on a separate instance.
The installation was smooth. The hypervisor loaded, a sleek yellow and grey interface lighting up the out-of-band management console. Mark assigned the IP, configured the VLANs, and spun up his first Virtual Machine. vmware trial version
Mark looked at him. "The trial expires in thirty days, Leo. I have the cloud migration scripts ready. If I run them tonight, we bypass the need for permanent licenses. We virtualize, upload to the cloud, and retire the on-prem hardware before the clock hits zero." It was magic