Multi-hypervisor is not a phase: it is what you will maintain twice
Sixty percent of the VMware customers surveyed by Unisphere Research are considering a multi-hypervisor strategy, and the four barriers they cite most — operational complexity 40%, multi-vendor management 38%, and tied at 37% securing the increased attack surface and team skills — are precisely what running two platforms at once installs in your shop. The list of what you end up maintaining twice, what genuinely does get halved, and when the dual state is the right call.