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Migrating from VMware to Proxmox VE: Modern Migration Strategies for Homelabs, Small Businesses & Admins Moving Away from VMware ESXi The future of virtualization is open-source - and thousands of organizations are leaving VMware in 2025+. If you're a homelab builder, SMB admin, IT professional or virtualization engineer facing Broadcom's licensing changes, rising costs or platform uncertainty, this book gives you the complete, practical, end-to-end guide to moving your workloads safely and confidently to Proxmox VE. This is not theory. This is a hands-on, real-world migration manual built on modern tools, updated workflows and proven production-grade techniques. You'll learn exactly how to assess your VMware environment, convert VMs, rebuild networks and storage, automate provisioning, validate performance and run a reliable, future-proof Proxmox VE cluster. What You Will Learn How to analyze your VMware ESXi/vCenter environment, inventory VMs and map dependencies Modern migration workflows using govc, qemu-img, virt-v2v and Proxmox-native tools How to rebuild VMware networking (vSwitches, Port Groups, VLANs, LAGs) inside Proxmox VE Step-by-step VM conversion techniques for Linux, Windows, firewalls and legacy appliances How to plan zero-downtime cutovers and avoid data loss Proxmox VE cluster deployment, storage design (ZFS, LVM-thin, Ceph) and VLAN-aware networking Hardening, backup and disaster-recovery workflows using Proxmox Backup Server Automation with Ansible, Terraform and Proxmox API for repeatable large-scale migrations Monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana and pve-exporter A complete full-stack end-to-end migration project you can reproduce in your homelab or SMB environment Who This Book Is For Homelab builders replacing VMware with a modern, open-source platform Small and medium businesses affected by Broadcom licensing changes Sysadmins and IT professionals responsible for virtualization infrastructure Engineers migrating production workloads to Proxmox VE clusters Anyone who wants a clear, comprehensive, 2025-ready migration blueprint A Complete, Hands-On Transformation of Your Virtualization Platform By the end of this book, you'll have migrated real VMware workloads, deployed a hardened Proxmox VE cluster, rebuilt storage and networks, automated provisioning and validated monitoring, backups and failover. You won't just understand the process - you'll have performed it end-to-end. Your VMware environment is changing. This book gives you the confidence, clarity and practical workflow to move forward. Begin your migration today and build a stronger, smarter, fully open-source virtualization future with Proxmox VE.

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