About Oathgate

Principal-led consulting. Practical infrastructure work.

Work directly with a principal-led practice focused on VMware, Cisco networking, and the infrastructure that connects them.

Who you are hiring

Work directly with the principal.

Oathgate is a principal-led infrastructure consulting practice based in Northern Colorado. The work covers VMware, Cisco networking, servers, storage, and recovery dependencies. Engagements focus on a defined technical question or project rather than a general help-desk subscription.

Projects often cross platform boundaries. A VMware upgrade may depend on storage compatibility and network configuration. A Cisco cutover may affect backup traffic or application access. Oathgate reviews those connections as part of the design, troubleshooting, and change plan.

The scope can be an assessment, an architecture review, implementation support, or targeted troubleshooting. Before work begins, the engagement should identify the systems in scope, the information and access needed, the deliverables, and how your team will review the results.

Delivery is remote-first. Discovery, configuration reviews, design sessions, and documentation can usually happen remotely. Onsite work in Northern Colorado and across Colorado can be coordinated for hardware changes, deployment windows, and tasks that need someone at the equipment.

Oathgate works alongside the team responsible for the environment. Handoff should make the implemented state, test results, unresolved issues, and recurring procedures clear. Your team retains the context it needs to maintain the platform and decide what to do next.

Best fit

When the project crosses teams.

  • VMware work depends on Cisco, storage, backup, identity, or DNS decisions.
  • A network change needs migration order, validation, and rollback before the window opens.
  • A platform upgrade needs a dependency review and an agreed change plan.
  • Documentation gaps are slowing troubleshooting, handoff, or leadership decisions.

What to expect

Clear scope. Documented decisions. Usable handoff.

Agree on the deliverables before work begins. Findings, design decisions, validation records, and open issues give your team a record to review and operate from.

Findings you can review

Assessment work documents the current state, the evidence behind each finding, and the dependencies that affect recommendations.

Connected platform reviews

Review virtualization, networking, storage, and backup paths together rather than treating each system as an isolated project.

Agreed change criteria

A change plan identifies prerequisites, validation checkpoints, rollback criteria, and the people involved in approving or executing each step.

Documentation and walkthrough

Agree on the diagrams, configuration notes, runbooks, and working sessions your team needs as part of the engagement scope.

01

Clarify ownership.

Identify which teams, vendors, tools, and maintenance windows are involved before the technical recommendation is locked.

02

Expose assumptions.

Call out the dependencies, failure modes, undocumented paths, and recovery assumptions that could change the project plan.

03

Make handoff explicit.

Define what the operating team needs to know after implementation: diagrams, runbooks, recurring tasks, and known risks.

Fit check

Start with the change you need to make.

VMware Cloud Foundation and Cisco network consulting, from assessment and design to implementation and operational handoff.

Start with context