Slash your infrastructure costs. Migrate off VMware.
Facing steep VMware renewal increases? We help Florida enterprises transition to open, cost-effective platforms like Proxmox and Nutanix — cutting licensing overhead by up to 60% without sacrificing uptime.
No obligation · written cost model · senior engineer on the first call.
hosting clients — we run infrastructure for the long haul
Florida-based team, on-site when it matters
facility (Flexential FLL01)
cutovers — nothing decommissioned until you sign off
Your VMware renewal just changed the math.
You didn't add workloads. The licensing model did.
Since the Broadcom acquisition, perpetual licenses are gone — replaced by bundles that force you to pay for features you never use.
Licensing now scales with your core count, so every hardware refresh quietly inflates your renewal.
Many teams have seen renewal quotes multiply overnight, with no change to the workloads they run.
50 VMs. Same hardware. A fraction of the bill.
A common shape we see: a 50-VM production estate on servers with plenty of life left. You don't need new hardware — you need out from under the licensing. Here's the model.
- vSphere / VCF subscription160 cores licensed per-core, billed annually~$21,600 / yr
- Renewal trendEvery hardware refresh raises the core count — and the billRising
- New hardwareExisting hosts fully capable — the cost is the license, not the iron$0
- Proxmox VE + Backup ServerOptional vendor support across the same hosts — or $0 self-supported~$5,500 / yr
- New hardwareSame servers, same racks — we migrate the workloads, not the capital$0
- 50 VMs + backupsProxmox Backup Server replaces the separate backup line item tooIncluded
roughly a 75% cut in platform cost — with zero new hardware and every VM and backup carried across.
Illustrative model based on typical post-Broadcom per-core subscription pricing; your figures depend on your core count, edition and support choices. Every engagement starts with a written TCO audit built on your real numbers.
A supported platform — without the tax.
Open-source or enterprise HCI. We recommend the one that fits your team, not the one with the biggest margin for us.
Proxmox VE
Open-source · KVMA supported, open virtualization stack with no per-core licensing tax and no feature paywalls. KVM virtualization, ZFS replication, live migration, and built-in backup.
- No subscription lock-in
- ZFS replication + Proxmox Backup Server
- Runs on the hardware you already own
Nutanix
HyperconvergedWhen you want a commercial, enterprise-supported HCI platform, we migrate you to Nutanix AHV — collapsing compute, storage and virtualization into one stack with predictable licensing.
- Enterprise support and SLAs
- AHV hypervisor — no separate VMware tax
- One-click scale-out
Migrate without downtime — and without burning a bridge.
Nothing gets decommissioned until you've signed off that the new platform is running clean.
Free TCO audit
We inventory your vSphere / ESXi estate and model your true current cost against Proxmox and Nutanix. You get a written number, not a sales pitch.
Migration plan
A fixed-scope cutover plan mapped to your maintenance windows, with rollback defined at every step.
Zero-downtime cutover
Workloads move in waves. Nothing is decommissioned until you have signed off that the new platform is running clean.
Managed or self-run
Keep it in-house, or let our Fort Lauderdale team run it for you. Either way, the VMware line item is gone.
See your number before you commit.
Tell us the shape of your VMware estate and a senior engineer will model your true cost against Proxmox and Nutanix — a written TCO audit, no obligation, no pitch.
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A senior engineer will be in touch within one business day to start your TCO audit.
Need it sooner? Call (754) 249-0384.