Broadcom-era VMware licensing changes are forcing timelines, budgets, and emotions. In 2026, most orgs aren’t doing one perfect cutover — they’re executing staged migrations with mixed hypervisors, constrained outages, and real tool limitations. This session gives you a decision framework: which workloads migrate first, how to pick between Hyper‑V vs Azure Local vs “stay put for now,” and what operational gaps will surprise VMware-native teams (reporting, drift visibility, live migration behaviors, storage patterns). We’ll emphasize patterns that are supportable and repeatable — not heroics!