Virtualisation without a licence bill that keeps climbing
Proxmox VE clusters designed, built, migrated and supported by engineers who run them in production — open source, no per-socket surprise, and a real migration path off what you have today.
Proxmox, end to end
Cluster design and build
Node sizing, quorum, fencing and the network separation Proxmox needs to behave. Built to survive a node loss rather than to look right in a demo.
Storage that suits the cluster
Ceph for scale-out, ZFS for density and snapshots, or shared SAN where you already have one. The choice is made against your IOPS and growth, not fashion.
Migration from VMware or Hyper-V
Guest-by-guest migration with a rollback point at each step, drivers and boot mode handled, and a written cutover plan.
Backup and replication
Proxmox Backup Server with deduplication and verified restores, or integration with what you already run.
High availability
HA groups, live migration and controlled failover, tested before handover rather than discovered during an outage.
Support and subscription
Enterprise repository subscriptions where you want vendor updates, plus our own support under a written agreement.
Assess, design, migrate, support
1. Assess
What you run today, what it costs, and which workloads are genuinely suitable. Some are not, and we say so.
2. Design
Cluster topology, storage, networking and backup, with the reasoning attached to each decision.
3. Migrate
Staged migration on agreed windows, with the old platform kept live until the new one is proven.
4. Support
Patching, monitoring, backup verification and capacity review under a service agreement.
When Proxmox is the right answer, and when it is not
We are a Proxmox partner and a VMware partner. That means we get paid either way, so here is the straight version.
- Proxmox suits you when licensing has become the largest line in your virtualisation budget, when your team is comfortable with Linux, and when you want the platform and the backup product from one open-source stack.
- VMware still suits you when you depend on a specific vSphere feature, when a third-party application is only certified on it, or when your operations team is built around it and retraining is the bigger cost.
- Hyper-V suits you when your estate is already heavily Microsoft and the licensing you hold covers it.
- Whatever you choose, the migration risk sits in the detail: guest drivers, boot mode, licensing of the guests themselves, and the applications nobody documented. That is the part we do.
Common questions
Is Proxmox actually production-grade?
Yes, and we run it in production for clients rather than in a lab. Like any platform it is only as good as the design and the operations behind it, which is the part people underestimate.
Can you migrate us off VMware?
Yes. That is the most common reason clients call us about Proxmox. We migrate guest by guest with a rollback point at every step.
Do we need a support subscription?
Not to run it, but we usually recommend the enterprise repository for a production cluster, and we will tell you which tier actually fits.
Who supports it afterwards?
We do, under a written service agreement, as part of managed IT. Open source without an owner is how estates drift.
Send us your current virtualisation bill.
That plus a host and guest inventory is enough for us to model what the alternative actually looks like over five years.
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