After the Broadcom acquisition, VMware licences became several times more expensive for many companies. We move your virtual machines to Proxmox VE — in stages, without long outages, with ongoing management from a single partner. English-speaking team, Prague-based, remote-friendly across the EU.
Since the Broadcom acquisition, a predictable platform has turned into cost uncertainty.
Broadcom ended perpetual licences and switched to per-core subscriptions. Many companies saw their annual virtualisation costs multiply.
Discontinued editions, partner program changes and support focused on the largest accounts. Small and mid-sized businesses are not Broadcom's priority.
The longer a company stays on VMware, the more expensive leaving becomes. An open platform puts control over infrastructure and costs back in your hands.
An open-source virtualisation platform with enterprise features, used by hundreds of thousands of companies worldwide — and the one our own infrastructure runs on.
| VMware | Proxmox VE | |
|---|---|---|
| Licensing | per-core subscription | open source, free |
| Support | included in subscription | optional subscription |
| HA clusters | higher editions | included |
| Backup | third-party product | Proxmox Backup Server |
| Source code | closed | open (AGPL) |
Step by step, without risk. Your servers keep running the whole time.
We map your virtual machines, storage, networks and application dependencies. Free and non-binding — you get a solution design and a quote.
We build Proxmox alongside your existing VMware and move the first non-critical servers. You verify performance and management with zero risk.
Servers are moved in waves outside business hours, each verified before cut-over. Downtime per server is typically measured in minutes.
Monitoring, updates, backups and restore testing. Optionally full infrastructure management as a service with guaranteed response times.
Describe your VMware environment (number of VMs, storage) and we will get back to you with a proposed approach and an indicative price.
FAQ
The price depends on the number of virtual machines, storage and availability requirements. We provide an exact quote after a free assessment of your environment. Thanks to the VMware licence savings, the migration investment typically pays for itself within the first year.
Yes. Proxmox VE offers high-availability clusters, live migration of virtual machines without downtime, snapshots and an enterprise repository with support directly from the vendor. We run our own production infrastructure on Proxmox, including backups via Proxmox Backup Server.
Small environments (a handful of servers) take days, larger ones are migrated in waves over weeks. Virtual machines are moved one by one outside business hours — your company keeps running, and the planned downtime per server is typically measured in minutes.
They keep running unchanged. During migration we convert the disk formats, install VirtIO drivers for full performance and verify the applications. Windows Server and SQL Server licences remain valid — they are tied to the server, not to the virtualisation platform.
Usually not. Proxmox VE runs on the same servers as VMware ESXi (Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro and others). We assess the hardware during the audit and recommend replacement only where it makes sense — the decision stays with you.
The solution includes Proxmox Backup Server — deduplicated, encrypted backups with integrity verification and off-site copies. Restores work at whole-server as well as single-file level, and we test them regularly.