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02 Sep 2026, 8:00 PM	The Register	3.0	A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter Vizient senior cloud engineer Dave Bradley recounted at VMware Explore how a bar encounter with senior execs led to a datacenter migration from Chicago to Dallas, initially proposed as a two-week deadline but settled at six-to-seven months. The team used Pure Storage (Everpure) arrays with 10Gbps inter-site links for replication, but faced mismatched IP schemes and insufficient hardware to run all workloads during downtime, forcing workload consolidation onto a subset of servers. Why: The article is an entertaining war story with minimal actionable technical detail — it stops before explaining how the team actually solved the IP scheme mismatch or the consolidation approach. Skip it unless you want a cautionary tale about scope being set by execs in bars, not a migration playbook. datacenter-migration war-story vmware-explore

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02 Sep 2026, 8:00 PM

The Register

3.0

A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter

Vizient senior cloud engineer Dave Bradley recounted at VMware Explore how a bar encounter with senior execs led to a datacenter migration from Chicago to Dallas, initially proposed as a two-week deadline but settled at six-to-seven months. The team used Pure Storage (Everpure) arrays with 10Gbps inter-site links for replication, but faced mismatched IP schemes and insufficient hardware to run all workloads during downtime, forcing workload consolidation onto a subset of servers.

Why: The article is an entertaining war story with minimal actionable technical detail — it stops before explaining how the team actually solved the IP scheme mismatch or the consolidation approach. Skip it unless you want a cautionary tale about scope being set by execs in bars, not a migration playbook.