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Proxmox Migracje optimises the CAPEX and OPEX of your IT infrastructure — hardware and licenses — through VMware → Proxmox VE migrations and physical server consolidation. Savings you can show your shareholders in the annual report — and higher profit is something shareholders love.
Broadcom has raised VMware prices by up to 1000%. We migrate your cluster to Proxmox VE — fast, secure, with zero downtime for HA applications, under 2 minutes for single VMs without HA.
🛡️ The company offers highly secured backup services post-migration at a second data centre, resilient against ransomware.
Broadcom destroyed
the VMware model
Broadcom's acquisition of VMware in 2023 changed the virtualization market — completely to the disadvantage of customers.
Prices increased by up to 1000%
Broadcom abandoned per-CPU licensing. Now only expensive ELA subscription bundles are available.
Forced Product Bundling
Don't need NSX, vSAN, or Aria? It doesn't matter — you pay for complete VCF suites.
Next-Level Vendor Lock-in
Contract renegotiations, altered support terms, the end of perpetual licenses. Your infrastructure is held hostage.
Mass Product End-of-Life
vSphere Desktop, Fusion (free), Carbon Black Cloud for SMB — the list of suspended products keeps growing.
Annual Cost Comparison
(VCF · 256 physical cores · €368/core)
* Estimates based on average 2024–2025 market prices.
Open Source.
Enterprise-grade.
Proxmox VE is a complete enterprise-grade virtualization platform — no licensing fees, no vendor lock-in.
Zero License Costs
Proxmox VE is free. Optional enterprise support grants access to stable repositories and service tickets.
KVM + LXC in One Stack
Full KVM virtualization for VMs and LXC containers for lightweight workloads — managed from a single dashboard.
Built-in Ceph HCI
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure at no extra cost. Ceph is integrated out-of-the-box.
High Availability (HA)
Built-in HA clustering powered by Corosync and Proxmox's own pve-ha-manager stack (CRM/LRM with watchdog self-fencing) — no Pacemaker. Automatic VM failover without extra licenses.
Full REST API + Terraform
Richly documented REST API and official Terraform provider. Full automation from provisioning to scaling.
Proxmox Backup Server
PBS featuring deduplication, incremental backups, and encryption. Instant restore — all open source.
Backup & ransomware protection
After migration we can provide backup and ransomware-protection services for your Proxmox virtual machines — highly secured backups at a second data centre resilient against ransomware, encryption and regular restore verification.
What We Do
From initial audit to complete environment handover — we guide you through every stage of migration.
Audit & Environment Analysis
Before migrating a single machine, we perform a thorough inventory of your VMware environment.
Proxmox Architecture Design
We design a target Proxmox VE cluster architecture tailored to your enterprise needs.
Virtual Machine Migration
We migrate your virtual machines using proven methodologies without interrupting production environments.
Post-Migration Support
Migration is just the beginning. We provide post-deployment hypercare support.
IT Team Training
Your team needs to operate confidently within the new stack.
🔍 Audit & Environment Analysis
Before migrating a single machine, we perform a thorough inventory of your VMware environment.
- Manual inventory of VMs, vSwitches, datastores, and portgroups
- Resource consumption analysis and rightsizing for every VM
- Mapping application dependencies between systems
- Risk assessment report and migration blockers identification
- ROI, TCO, and post-migration savings calculations
- Target cluster architecture recommendations
🏗️ Proxmox Architecture Design
We design a target Proxmox VE cluster architecture tailored to your enterprise needs.
- Proxmox cluster design (3+ nodes with full HA)
- Network engineering: VLANs, bonding, SDN
- Storage selection and tuning (local-LVM, NFS, iSCSI, Ceph)
- Backup strategy using Proxmox Backup Server
- Integration with current infrastructure (AD, LDAP, monitoring)
- Technical documentation and operational runbooks
⚡ Virtual Machine Migration
We migrate your virtual machines using proven methodologies without interrupting production environments.
- VMDK → qcow2/raw conversion with integrity validation
- Live migration — under 2 min per VM, zero for LB-backed applications
- UAT validation for every VM after migration
- Documented roll-back plans for each milestone
- Batch migration within pre-approved maintenance windows
- Real-time progress tracking
🛡️ Post-Migration Support
Migration is just the beginning. We provide post-deployment hypercare support.
- 30 or 90-day comprehensive hypercare packages
- Monitoring ecosystem deployment (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager)
- Performance tuning and resource allocation optimization
- 8×5 or 24×7 technical support based on your needs
- Production incident response and escalation workflows
- Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR)
📚 IT Team Training
Your team needs to operate confidently within the new stack.
- Foundational course: Proxmox for VMware administrators
- Managing HA clusters, live migrations, and failover
- Ceph storage administration and troubleshooting
- Automation using APIs, Terraform, and Ansible
- Backup & recovery via Proxmox Backup Server
- Official completion certificates for all attendees
Migration Methodology
A structured, field-tested process — from the first call to going live 100% on Proxmox.
Discovery & Environment Audit
Manual inventory of the current VMware environment.
⏱ 1–3 business daysDesign & Migration Planning
Based on audit outputs, we architect the target Proxmox environment.
⏱ 3–7 business daysProxmox Environment Preparation
Installation and cluster provisioning on the target hardware.
⏱ 2–5 business daysPilot Phase — Initial VMs
We start with non-critical staging systems to validate the conversion workflow.
⏱ 1–3 business daysProduction Systems Migration
Batch migrations executed during approved windows with full UAT and VMware fallback.
⏱ 1–8 weeks (depending on scale)Hypercare & Knowledge Transfer
We assist your team during a 30-to-90-day hypercare window.
⏱ 30–90 days post-migrationTechnical Articles
Detailed guides and financial analyses for IT administrators and decision-makers planning a migration away from VMware.
VMware vs Proxmox: Financial & Technical Analysis
Since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, licensing costs have risen by up to 1000%. A detailed analysis of TCO, contractual risks and the technical merits of both platforms for IT directors and CTOs.
VMware alternatives: the options and why Proxmox
After the Broadcom price hikes it pays to survey the market. A review of the real alternatives — Proxmox VE, Nutanix, Hyper-V, XCP-ng, OpenShift — with selection criteria and who Proxmox is the best fit for.
Proxmox implementation services for businesses
Comprehensive Proxmox VE implementation — from audit, through architecture design, to full production go-live. Proxmox migration services and CAPEX/OPEX optimisation of IT infrastructure for companies of every size.
Physical server migration to virtual (P2V)
Virtualising physical servers with Proxmox VE — 10:1 consolidation, up to 75% energy cost reduction and simpler management. Physical server migration services for companies of every size.
Proxmox permissions and Active Directory integration
The role/ACL model in Proxmox plus signing in with a corporate Active Directory account. Mapping AD groups to roles, pools and least-privilege — convenience, security and IT governance.
Two-factor authentication (2FA) in Proxmox
TOTP, FIDO2/WebAuthn hardware keys and recovery keys, realm-level 2FA enforcement and protecting the root account. Why it is a standard today and how to roll it out safely.
Windows Server licensing on Proxmox VE
Windows Server is licensed by the host's physical cores, not by the VM's vCPU — on a dense server that's a cost trap. The per-core model, Standard vs Datacenter vs per-VM, HA cluster licensing and the current Microsoft catalog prices for Windows Server 2025.
RHEL licensing on Proxmox VE
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a subscription, not a perpetual license — the per-socket model vs RHEL for Virtual Datacenters and Red Hat catalog prices.
Licencjonowanie Oracle EE i SQL Server Enterprise
Oracle Database EE i Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise na Proxmox VE — soft partitioning, licencjonowanie od rdzeni hosta, klastry HA i strategie obniżenia kosztów licencji baz danych.
Why we recommend the AMD EPYC 9755 for general application workloads
128 Zen 5 cores, 12-channel DDR5 and PCIe Gen5 in a single socket. We explain why the ultra-performant EPYC 9755 (Turin) is the optimal base for consolidation and general application workloads on Proxmox VE.
Why we recommend the AMD EPYC 9175F for database workloads
16 high-frequency Zen 5 cores and 512 MB of L3 cache — maximum per-core performance with the minimum number of Oracle EE and MS SQL Enterprise licenses. Also great for PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB.
VCF vs Proxmox 9.2: what is missing and how to cover it
Honestly: what VMware Cloud Foundation has (Fault Tolerance, NSX, Aria, SDDC Manager), what Proxmox VE 9.2 lacks, and how to achieve the same by other, proven means.
Migration Process: Step by Step
A complete technical walkthrough for moving your infrastructure from VMware vSphere / ESXi to Proxmox VE — from environment audit to production go-live. For IT administrators and architects.
Choosing a CPU type in Proxmox: QEMU vs host vs x86-64-v4
kvm64, host, x86-64-v2/v3/v4 — which CPU model should you pick for a QEMU/KVM guest? We explain flags, microarchitecture levels, the live-migration vs performance trade-off, and the impact on AVX-512 and databases.
LXC containers in Proxmox: when to use them instead of a VM
Lightweight LXC system containers vs full QEMU VMs. Density, performance, privileged vs unprivileged containers, bind mounts, PBS backup and production scenarios on Proxmox VE.
KSM in Proxmox: sharing RAM across virtual machines
Kernel Same-page Merging merges identical memory pages from many VMs into one copy — real RAM overcommit, higher density and lower cost. Proxmox configuration, monitoring, NUMA and security considerations.
VM vs container: RAM usage (Debian 13)
A clean Debian 13 without a GUI uses ~16 MB RAM in an LXC container and ~85 MB as a VM (and ~1 GB with a GNOME desktop). We explain where the difference comes from and what it means for density and cost.
VLANs in Proxmox: isolating and segmenting traffic
Network segmentation with 802.1Q tags — VLAN-aware bridge, trunks, sub-interfaces and LACP bonds. How to cleanly separate production, management and storage on Proxmox VE and avoid common configuration mistakes.
Proxmox VE 9 vs 8: what changed
Debian 13, kernel 6.14, snapshots on LVM/SAN, HA affinity rules, SDN Fabrics, ZFS 2.3 and Ceph Squid. A roundup of the key differences between Proxmox VE 9 and 8 and what they mean for a VMware migration.
HA affinity rules in Proxmox VE
Affinity, anti-affinity and node affinity in Proxmox VE 9 — keep VMs together or apart and pin them to nodes. They replace the old HA groups; strict vs non-strict and best practices.
SDN Fabrics in Proxmox VE: routed underlay
Fabrics (OpenFabric/OSPF) automate routing between cluster nodes — the foundation for a full-mesh Ceph network and EVPN/VXLAN. UI configuration, router-IDs and use cases.
SDN and EVPN monitoring in Proxmox VE
Proxmox VE 9.1 brought SDN visibility to the UI — guests on bridges and VNets, learned IP/MAC addresses in EVPN zones and Fabrics in the resource tree. Troubleshoot the network without vtysh.
Dynamic Load Balancer in Proxmox VE 9.2
The vSphere DRS equivalent. The dynamic CRS factors in live CPU and RAM and automatically migrates HA-managed VMs to even out cluster load — while respecting affinity rules.
WireGuard & BGP in Proxmox VE 9.2 SDN
PVE 9.2 added WireGuard and BGP to SDN — encrypted transport between nodes, route maps and prefix lists, OSPF redistribution and IPv6 as an EVPN underlay.
HA maintenance mode in Proxmox VE 9.2
PVE 9.2 lets you disarm/arm the whole HA stack for planned work — it releases CRM/LRM watchdogs cluster-wide so no node gets fenced. Freeze and Ignore modes.
EVPN/VXLAN networks in Proxmox VE
VXLAN stretches an L2 network over routed L3, and EVPN (BGP) is its distributed control plane. Zones as VRFs, anycast gateway, type-2 routes and exit nodes — overlay and multi-tenant networks on Proxmox VE.
Windows Server 2016 vs 2025: differences and whether to upgrade
Windows Server 2016 support ends January 2027, while 2025 brings hotpatching, SMB over QUIC, new Active Directory levels and stronger security. What really changes, when it's worth upgrading and how to run WS2025 as a VM on Proxmox VE.
VMware vs Proxmox
How much will you save?
Select the number of CPU cores to compare annual licensing costs. Proxmox is licensed per socket (128 cores/socket).
Physical servers
How much will you save?
10:1 consolidation — on average 10 physical servers run on a single Proxmox host. Calculate your OPEX (power, maintenance) and CAPEX (hardware) savings.
Flexible Migration Plans
Choose a model tailored to your infrastructure.
- ✓ Up to 10 Virtual Machines
- ✓ Comprehensive VMware environment audit
- ✓ Professional Proxmox cluster installation
- ✓ Secure machine migration (virt-v2v)
- ✓ Proxmox Backup Server configuration
- ✓ 14 days of dedicated hypercare support
- ✗ Live migration without service windows
- ✗ Dedicated IT team training sessions
- ✓ Up to 60 Virtual Machines
- ✓ In-depth technical audit and TCO analysis
- ✓ Advanced HA cluster architecture design
- ✓ Live migration (under 2 min per VM; LB-backed apps — zero downtime)
- ✓ Full ZFS configuration
- ✓ Monitoring setup (Zabbix)
- ✓ 30 days post-migration engineering care (8x5)
- ✓ 1-day technical course for sysadmins
- ⚡ +20% success fee from CAPEX/OPEX savings
- ✓ Unlimited Virtual Machines
- ✓ Multi-phase enterprise migration plan
- ✓ Multi-site clustering and data replication
- ✓ Dedicated Project Manager and Lead Engineer
- ✓ Contractually backed corporate SLAs
- ✓ 90 days of 24/7/365 support
- ✓ Full-scale technical training program
- ⚡ +20% success fee from CAPEX/OPEX savings
- ✓ Up to 10 physical servers
- ✓ Hardware compatibility analysis
- ✓ Precision migration engineering
- ✓ Driver mapping and kernel alignment
- ✓ Target virtual environment provisioning
- ✓ Data continuity and integrity assurance
- ⚡ +20% success fee from CAPEX/OPEX savings
- ✓ 10–60 physical servers
- ✓ Expert manual structural engineering
- ✓ Legacy system and database modifications
- ✓ Low-level system configuration migration
- ⚡ +20% success fee from CAPEX/OPEX savings
- ✓ Assigned squad of veteran engineers
- ✓ Over 100 physical servers
- ✓ Multi-layered audit and phased scheduling
- ✓ Custom migration infrastructure per project
- ✓ End-to-end risk management and rollback playbooks
- ⚡ +20% success fee from CAPEX/OPEX savings
- ✓ Long-term post-deployment 24/7 premium care
💡 Success Fee Principles (20% of Demonstrated Savings)
The premium is calculated strictly from real, verifiable reductions in expenditure.
- CAPEX commission: Calculated from the cost of the unneeded physical servers or disk arrays you would otherwise have had to buy if you stayed — minus the purchase cost of the new, optimised servers for the Proxmox VE environment.
- OPEX commission: Derived from eliminating static maintenance costs, VMware licensing, and bloated third-party database licensing. The 20% fee also applies to savings from eliminated VMware licenses.
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