VMShift
AI-powered VM-to-container migration — on-prem or in the cloud
VMShift is the first-ever AI-powered VM-to-container migration solution. VMShift helps you convert and migrate hundreds — or even thousands — of virtual machines to any container or cloud platform with efficiency, repeatability, and reliability.
Customer challenges with virtual machines
With containerization increasingly becoming the infrastructure modernization method of choice, the disadvantages of VMs have become more evident — impacting scalability, performance, cost, and operational efficiency.
Cost prohibitive
Rising licensing and operational costs for traditional virtualization strain budgets and limit scalability
Investment risk
Declining vendor support and partner resources increase systemic risk and vendor lock-in challenges
Increased complexity
Technical debt and poor interoperability between legacy and modern infrastructure hinder efficiency and require costly interventions
Why VMShift?
VMShift enables organizations to convert and migrate virtual machines to native containers, unlocking savings across transformation, operations, and licensing
VMShift transforms legacy VMs into containers at scale, accelerating transformation timelines and ensuring consistent, reliable results
With AI-driven automation, VMShift builds containerized environments in just weeks, dramatically reducing modernization time and cutting costs
How it works
Migrating your virtual machines using VMShift is simple: Connect, Configure, Containerize, Deploy.
Connect
- Automatic: Via VMware vSphere for monitoring and migration *OR*
- Manual: Direct VM connection
Configure
- Operating System: Linux
- Infrastructure as Code (Optional)
- AWS CloudFormation
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- Cloud Service (Optional)
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud Platform
- Microsoft Azure
Containerize
- Containerization
- Data Migration
Deploy
- On-Premises Deployment
- Cloud Deployment
Feature highlights
AI-powered containerization
Driven by agentic AI, VMShift intelligently scans your VM image to analyze networking, security, and data configurations — pinpointing which workloads are best suited for migration. Using these insights, VMShift automatically generates optimized Dockerfiles at scale, ensuring seamless compatibility with your new containerized environment.
Optimized container resourcing
VMShift also intelligently assesses resource requirements — preventing over-provisioning that drives up cloud costs and avoiding under-provisioning that can cause performance issues. The result? A seamlessly optimized containerized environment.
Parallel containerization
With VMShift’s sidecar, you can enable parallel containerization at scale and migrate your VMs with minimal disruption. Running alongside your virtual machines, this intelligent companion manages networking abstraction, workload transformation, and performance monitoring — all in real time.
Take the first step to break free from traditional virtualization
Accelerate infrastructure modernization with VMShift, the world's first AI-powered VM-to-container migration solution.
