VMware → Proxmox migrations

Move off VMware
without the guesswork.

We turn your existing VMware inventory into a fixed-price migration to Proxmox — every VM assessed, every number traced to your data, and one price at the bottom. No hourly surprises. No lock-in.

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Built for SMBs and MSPs running 10–500 VMs.

Perpetual licenses are gone

VMware is subscription-only, bundled and metered per core.

Renewals that jumped

Many small clusters now renew for more than they first cost to build.

Proxmox runs it all

KVM/LXC, live migration, HA, and built-in backups — open source.

Why now

The VMware you bought isn’t the VMware you renew.

After the Broadcom acquisition, perpetual licensing ended and VMware moved to per-core subscription bundles with minimums. For a lot of small teams, the renewal quote arrived bigger than the project that first justified the cluster. Proxmox VE is a mature, open-source platform that runs the same workloads — without the licensing meter. The only real question is how to get there safely, and what it costs. That’s the question we answer.

Costs you can predict

One fixed price for the migration, and a virtualization stack with no per-core license after it.

No vendor lock-in

Proxmox is open source. Your hypervisor stops being a renewal negotiation every year.

Production-grade

Live migration, high availability, snapshots, and backups are built in — not upsells.

How it works

Three steps to a number you can defend.

An orderly grid of virtual machines, safely reassembled after migration
  1. 01

    Send us your inventory

    Export from RVTools — the free, standard VMware reporting tool. One .xlsx file. No agents installed, no access to your vCenter required.

  2. 02

    We assess every VM

    Our engine reads every VM and flags what actually affects a migration: snapshots, RDMs, passthrough, Fault Tolerance, oversized disks, out-of-date tools, and end-of-life guests. Nothing hand-waved.

  3. 03

    You get a fixed price

    A wave-by-wave migration plan and one fixed number — with what's included and excluded in writing. Payment is simple: 50% to start, 50% at cutover.

No guesswork

Every number traces to your data — or it doesn’t appear.

Most migration quotes are a finger in the air. Ours is built from your actual inventory. If a detail isn’t in your export, the report says “not assessed” instead of guessing. You can hand it to your CFO and defend every line.

  • Per-VM findings, grouped by severity — blockers, warnings, info
  • A wave plan that migrates the clean VMs first
  • A VMware renewal comparison, so the business case is on one page

Migration assessment

Sample

Your fixed-price migration

$11,350

vs. $54,000/yr current VMware renewal · 42 VMs assessed

Lift

Clean

Assisted

Steps

Surgical

Complex

RDM disk present— needs remediation before cutover
Snapshots to consolidate— before conversion
Windows guests— VirtIO driver injection

Illustrative — figures from our public demo environment, not a real client.

Pricing

You only pay for the complexity you actually have.

Each VM is scored from its findings and priced by tier. Simple VMs are cheap to move; you only pay the higher rate where the work is genuinely there.

Lift

$150 / VM

Clean VMs, no blockers

Powered-on, no snapshots, no special hardware. Convert, transfer, validate.

Assisted

Most VMs

$400 / VM

Needs per-VM steps

Snapshot consolidation, VirtIO driver injection, guest-agent — routine, but real work.

Surgical

$900 / VM

Blockers or very large

RDMs, passthrough, Fault Tolerance, or multi-TB critical VMs — handled with care.

One price, written down. $7,500 project minimum.

50% to start, 50% at cutover.Powered-off VMs go in a “migrate or retire” bucket — you decide, you’re never billed by surprise.

Get your exact number

Included

  • Discovery review of the supplied RVTools export
  • Proxmox VE target cluster validation (assumes hardware in place)
  • VM conversion and transfer for all in-scope VMs
  • VirtIO driver injection and qemu-guest-agent install per VM as needed
  • Snapshot consolidation prior to conversion
  • Post-migration boot and connectivity validation per VM
  • One cutover window with rollback plan

Excluded

  • Proxmox host hardware, networking, and storage procurement
  • Remediation of VMs flagged as blockers (RDM, passthrough, Fault Tolerance) beyond the agreed approach
  • Application-level testing and sign-off (customer responsibility)
  • Operating system upgrades or modernization of end-of-life guests
  • Backup infrastructure changes and DR redesign
  • Ongoing managed services after cutover

FAQ

The questions we hear first.

Something not covered? Email hello@migrationscope.com and a human will answer.

Is Proxmox really production-ready?
Yes. Proxmox VE is a mature, widely deployed platform built on KVM and LXC, with live migration, high availability, clustering, snapshots, and integrated backup. It runs the same guest operating systems your VMware VMs run today.
Will there be downtime?
Most VMs are migrated with a short, planned cutover window per wave, and we validate boot and connectivity before moving on. Your assessment includes a wave plan so you know exactly what moves when.
What about VMs we can't easily move — RDMs, passthrough, Fault Tolerance?
Those are flagged as blockers in your report and scoped as “Surgical” work, with a remediation approach agreed up front. Nothing complex gets hidden inside an average — you see it, and you see what it costs.
Do we need new hardware?
Not necessarily. Proxmox runs on standard x86 servers, and in many cases on the same hosts after migration. Hardware procurement, if any, is called out in the excluded list so the fixed price stays honest.
What's RVTools, and is it safe to share?
RVTools is a free, read-only reporting utility for VMware that exports your inventory to a spreadsheet. It doesn’t change anything. You send us the .xlsx — we never need access to your vCenter.
What if our environment changes after the quote?
Send an updated export and we re-run the assessment. Because every number traces to the inventory, an updated quote is a re-run, not a renegotiation.

Get your fixed-price assessment.

Send your inventory and get a number you can take to the board — with the findings and the plan behind it. No obligation, and we reply within one business day.

Rather just talk? Email hello@migrationscope.com.

No obligation. We reply within one business day. Your details stay with us.