VMware to Proxmox Migration Services

Migrate from VMware to Proxmox with Confidence

Facing higher costs or tighter restrictions with VMware’s new licensing?
You’re not alone. Many organizations are actively exploring Proxmox VE as a robust, enterprise-grade alternative — and Ekkum Inc. is here to make your migration smooth, secure, and successful.

Why Migrate to Proxmox?

Proxmox VE is a feature-rich, open-source virtualization platform that supports:

• - High-availability clustering
• - KVM-based virtualization and LXC containers
• - Advanced backup and snapshot tools
• - Integrated networking and storage management
• - No restrictive licensing fees

Our Migration Approach

We handle end-to-end migration from VMware to Proxmox, starting with:

🔍 Discovery & Infrastructure Assessment

• - Understand and align current VMware architecture with future Proxmox environment
• - Review physical and virtual infrastructure, VM dependencies, and licensing requirements

📋 Audit of Current VMware Setup

• - Storage architecture and usage
• - Network trunking, VLANs, IP addressing
• - vCPU/CPU licensing for OSes, MS SQL, and other databases
• - VM backup tools and encryption policies

🧮 Review of Target Proxmox Infrastructure

• - Hardware/storage compatibility and configuration
• - VM snapshot capabilities
• - Compute and networking readiness
• - Backup tools and DR capabilities
• - On-prem or colocation data center resources

🔄 Migration Planning & Execution

After assessments are complete, we deliver a migration roadmap that includes:

• - Defined outage windows
• - Live and offline VM migration strategies
• - Pre-migration backups and disk encryption checks
• - Integration with 3rd-party backup tools if needed

We use secure tools and best practices to:

• - Convert VMware VM images for Proxmox compatibility
• - Perform live backup/restore or offline migrations
• - Minimize downtime and avoid data loss

✅ Post-Migration Services

Once the VMs are running on Proxmox, we:

• - Test applications, network connectivity, and services
• - Install/verify VirtIO drivers and QEMU Guest Agents
• - Finalize backup systems (local + off-site)
• - Update documentation and validate DR readiness
• - Safely decommission legacy VMware infrastructure