Move the workload off the dying platform.
Prove it still matches.
Two deadlines are colliding
The OS is out of support
CentOS Linux 7 and 8 no longer receive security patches. Regulated fleets are running unsupported production hosts right now.
vSphere & Nutanix got expensive
Post-acquisition VMware renewal shock — and rising Nutanix costs — are pushing organizations off their hypervisors, many to KVM and cloud, on a compressed timeline.
Both force the same question at once: can you move the workload — and prove the replacement is equivalent?
Moving is a solved problem. Proving equivalence isn't.
- Conversion tools copy disks between hypervisors. They say nothing about whether the rebuilt OS still does the same thing.
- Re-platforming a distro (CentOS → AlmaLinux/RHEL/Ubuntu) is manual, tribal, and error-prone — package names, repos, services, MAC policy all drift.
- When the auditor asks "what changed, and how do you know it's equivalent?" — there is no artifact to hand them.
Any Linux source in. An audit trail out.
vrtmv reads any Linux source — a VM image, a live running system, or bare metal — reconstructs what it actually runs, rebuilds it as a virtual machine via Ansible, and signs a parity report proving what changed.
It reasons from the bytes, not from a login
- Read-only at the block layer. The source is never booted, never altered — safe for forensics and audit.
- Agentless. Nothing is installed on the source. Works on a cold VMDK / qcow2 / raw image, LVM roots included.
- Reads the real state: the rpm Berkeley-DB / ndb / sqlite or dpkg database, plus on-disk config — including EL7's hard Berkeley-DB path.
The Translation Index
A curated knowledge base of cross-distribution mappings — packages, services, repositories, accounts, MAC policy — that turns "what this host runs" into "what it must run on the target."
Every mapping cites a real, verifiable source. No fabricated rules.
Each row graded high / medium / low / untested — honestly.
Rules evaluate against on-disk state locally — host data never leaves.
The output is evidence, not a guess
- An Ansible role that rebuilds the workload as a VM on the target OS.
- A signed parity attestation: what mapped cleanly, what carried caveats, what couldn't be resolved.
- Unknowable-from-cold conditions are reported as unknown — never silently assumed true.
- Reproducible: same image → same attestation.
More than a package translator
Off VMware & Nutanix
Reads the disk directly — VMDK / qcow2 / OVA / raw — with no vendor exporter. Pull VMs straight out of VMware or Nutanix AHV.
Carries the data, too — attested
Finds the data no package owns, then emits an attested byte-copy runbook — a sha256 manifest that proves the copy is byte-identical — and export/import steps for databases. Part of the plan, not a separate project.
Operator decision punchlist
The calls only a human can make, called out — with community field notes queryable from the Index as input, never guidance.
100+ releases, back to 2000
100+ Linux releases across 16 families — 8,700+ package mappings and 46,000+ translations harvested from the real archives, not guessed. The legacy hosts other tools abandoned still have a path.
Your data never leaves your environment
- The client runs entirely inside your network and does all the analysis on your own image — on-prem, air-gapped edge, or a jump host.
- It asks the hosted API for one thing: what each package maps to on the target. We maintain the mapping intelligence so you don't have to.
- Only package identifiers cross the line — your configs, inventory and secrets stay home. The API is authenticated and metered.
From source to a running OpenShift VM
- Automated tooling to hand the rebuilt VM straight to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization — provisioned as an OpenShift VM.
- The parity attestation travels with it as the deployment record — the same evidence, end to end.
Built to survive an audit
Unresolved packages and untranslated canonicals are listed, not hidden. Absence is reported as absence.
A condition that can't be known from a cold image is flagged unknown — the audit-defensible default.
The report is signed and deterministic. The same disk yields the same evidence, every time.
A ~$16B market — that Broadcom is shrinking by price
Migrations to Red Hat Enterprise Linux are free
No per-migration fee, at any scale, when the target is RHEL — the modern, supported landing OS for regulated estates. The easiest path off the dying platform is also the cheapest.
Terms and conditions apply — contact sales.
See it migrate a real CentOS 7 host
The demo runs the actual engine against a real rpm database, translates over the live API, and shows you the role and the signed parity report.
demo.vrtmv.com
Audit-grade Linux migration with parity attestation.
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