Rethinking Microsegmentation During a VMware Exit

The article advises organizations reassessing VMware due to licensing changes to treat NSX migrations as a chance to decouple east-west security from the virtualization layer, extend microsegmentation across data center, cloud, and OT/IoT, and preserve existing intent by translating NSX policies. It recommends a unified, platform-agnostic control plane with AI-guided workflows, simulation and rollback, centralized visibility, and consistent labeling to reduce operational risk and avoid new forms of lock-in.