Reusing Your Existing VMware Hosts
Hardware Compatibility and Repurposing Strategy
The servers sitting in your datacenter right now, the Dell PowerEdges, the HPE ProLiants, and the Lenovo ThinkSystems, were designed to run hypervisors, not a specific hypervisor. Any hypervisor.
This might seem obvious, but it’s worth stating clearly: enterprise server hardware is hypervisor-agnostic. The same CPUs, memory, storage controllers, and network adapters that run ESXi today will run Hyper-V tomorrow. You’re not abandoning hardware investments when you change virtualization platforms; you’re simply loading different software.