# From Partner and Pricing Turbulence to a Safe Path with Bridge Licensing

A manufacturer faced an 800% VMware renewal increase and an expiring contract, with multiple sites at risk of disruption and no completed migration path in place before the deadline.

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## From Partner and Pricing Turbulence to a Safe Path with Bridge Licensing

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A manufacturer faced an 800% VMware renewal increase and an expiring contract. Their IT operations partner could not complete the migration from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V before the deadline and they were running out of time. This put multiple sites at risk of disruption. Without bridge licensing or a temporary workload environment, critical operations faced potential shutdowns. As a long-standing Expedient colocation client, the company turned to us for help. We delivered a stabilization strategy through bridge licensing that gave them time to complete the transition and put them on a safer path to modernization.

### Expedient Services

[Expedient Bridge Program →](/solutions/challenge/expedient-bridge-program/)

[Expedient Enterprise Cloud (EEC) →](/services/cloud/)

### Industry

[Manufacturing →](/solutions/industry/manufacturing/)

## Challenges

Three-year VMware renewal came with an 800% price increase

VMware contract expiration timing created immediate operational pressure

IT partner could not complete production migration from VMware to Hyper-V before the deadline

Multiple sites faced potential shutdowns without bridge licensing or a temporary environment

## Outcomes

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VMware workloads across multiple sites were licensed and compliant before deadline

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End-of-life hardware infrastructure leasing in place, avoiding renewal costs

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EEC Service Port ready for workload migration into multi-tenant cloud environment

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