VMware to Proxmox Migrations
With the recent withdrawal of VMware Essentials and Essentials Plus by Broadcom/VMware, Akzium has invested in training our technical resources on the Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE) hypervisor solution.
Broadcom's announced End of General Support for vSphere 8 is October 11, 2027.
Proxmox is in Akzium's opinion the most cost-efficient option available to the VMware Essentials, Essentials Plus and Standard installed base customers who no longer have an option for Broadcom/VMware support of their existing platform.
Akzium understands that upgrading to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x is not only prohibitively expensive for many businesses, but also a major structural change in your VMware setup.
With Proxmox VE 9.x you retain the familiarity of VMware's vCenter, Standard vSwitches and flexible hardware and storage infrastructure options.
Migrating from VMware to Proxmox VE 9.x doesn't mean having to leave your disaster recovery model behind.
By pairing Proxmox with LINBIT's LINSTOR and DRBD 9, you unlock high-performance, asynchronous data replication and automated failover without the crippling licensing costs.
Why Proxmox VE 9.x teams are embracing LinBit's site-to-site data replication solutions:
Contact your Akzium rep to discuss the technical differences between your existing VMware hypervisor environment and a Proxmox-based virtualization platform.
Akzium's highly-trained team of virtualization experts will design a migration path to move all of your existing VMware-hosted virtual machines over to Proxmox.
Broadcom's announced End of General Support for vSphere 8 is October 11, 2027.
Proxmox is in Akzium's opinion the most cost-efficient option available to the VMware Essentials, Essentials Plus and Standard installed base customers who no longer have an option for Broadcom/VMware support of their existing platform.
Akzium understands that upgrading to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x is not only prohibitively expensive for many businesses, but also a major structural change in your VMware setup.
- To move to VCF 9.x you must ingest your entire VMware infrastructure into the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) Manager, which is an additional management layer that sits "on top" of vCenter
- The "move" to SDDC Manager means that your underlying VMware network, compute and storage must meet strict cloud-ready prerequisites before SDDC Manager will allow the conversion.
- SDDC requires all servers in a cluster be of identical hardware (CPU / system board) types
- SDDC requires a MINIMUM of 4 identical ESX hosts
- While 10GbE is technically supported, SDDC prefers 25GbE or faster network speeds
- SDDC requires specific VLANs to be configured (Management, vMotion, vSAN, Edge) with 9000 MTU jumbo frames enabled
- Only vSAN, Fiber Channel and NFS storage are supported as Primary Storage, iSCSI is relegated to secondary storage
- VCF 9.x prefers SAML 2.0 / OIDC federated identity and authentication via Entra ID, Okta, PingIdentity or ADFS
- Fiber Channel arrays must be registered via vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) to allow policy-based management
- Storage arrays must support vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) natively
With Proxmox VE 9.x you retain the familiarity of VMware's vCenter, Standard vSwitches and flexible hardware and storage infrastructure options.
Migrating from VMware to Proxmox VE 9.x doesn't mean having to leave your disaster recovery model behind.
By pairing Proxmox with LINBIT's LINSTOR and DRBD 9, you unlock high-performance, asynchronous data replication and automated failover without the crippling licensing costs.
Why Proxmox VE 9.x teams are embracing LinBit's site-to-site data replication solutions:
- Near-Native Performance: DRBD delivers blisteringly fast, hyperconverged block storage with ultra-low latency.
- True Multi-Site DR: Seamlessly build stretched clusters for continuous availability across datacenters.
- Simplified Management: LINSTOR orchestrates your entire storage footprint directly within Proxmox.
Contact your Akzium rep to discuss the technical differences between your existing VMware hypervisor environment and a Proxmox-based virtualization platform.
Akzium's highly-trained team of virtualization experts will design a migration path to move all of your existing VMware-hosted virtual machines over to Proxmox.
HPE/Zerto Site-to-Site Replication
can be replaced by Proxmox + LinBit's LinStor & DRBD
VMware's Replication and Site Recovery Manager can be replaced with Proxmox + LinBit's Linstor & DRBD
