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Leaving VMware? Proxmox VE for Small and Medium Businesses

Virtualisation without the licence shock
November 8, 2026 by
Leaving VMware? Proxmox VE for Small and Medium Businesses
BOSS Pacific, Administrator
ProxmoxLenovo

VMware licensing changes have pushed many Australian businesses to look for alternatives. Proxmox VE is the one we run in production ourselves.

  • Open source with optional paid support subscriptions — no per-core licence shock.
  • VMs and containers in one web interface, clustering and live migration built in.
  • Ceph for shared, self-healing storage across three or more nodes.
  • Proxmox Backup Server for fast, deduplicated, verified backups.
  • A built-in import wizard to bring VMs across from ESXi.

How we migrate

Inventory and test each VM, move in planned windows, keep the old host until a burn-in period passes. Your users notice nothing except, often, faster systems.

Talk to us about a migration → · Learn it yourself: Proxmox and Ceph courses, with a Proxmox lab you can rent by the day.

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