VMware to Proxmox / Nutanix Migration — Saudi Arabia

Since Broadcom acquired VMware and restructured its licensing into bundled subscriptions, many Saudi organisations have seen virtualization renewals jump several times over — pricing that no longer makes sense for small and mid-sized estates running a handful of hosts. That has turned a once-unthinkable question into a board-level one: do we stay on VMware, or migrate to Proxmox VE or Nutanix? Both are credible destinations. Proxmox VE is a mature, open-source hypervisor with clustering, high availability, live migration, built-in backup and Ceph storage at a fraction of the cost, and its ESXi import tooling has matured significantly. Nutanix offers a polished, enterprise hyperconverged platform with its AHV hypervisor, strong management and support, suited to organisations that want a single appliance-like stack with vendor backing.

Skyline is platform-neutral and helps you decide on the numbers, then executes the move. Our engineers build an honest three-year TCO comparing your VMware renewal against Proxmox and Nutanix, factoring in licences, hardware, support, and migration effort — and we will tell you if staying put is genuinely the cheaper option for your case. When you migrate, we handle it as a real project: inventory and dependency mapping, V2V conversion of Windows and Linux VMs, network and storage redesign, HA cluster build, backup re-platforming, and parallel running with rollback until every workload is verified on the new stack.

• Decision first: a real three-year TCO in SAR — VMware renewal vs. Proxmox vs. Nutanix.
• Clean V2V: Windows and Linux VMs converted with drivers, networking and storage validated.
• Resilience preserved: HA clustering, live migration, and re-platformed backup before cutover.
• No vendor pressure: we recommend staying on VMware if that is honestly the right call.

We deliver across Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Khobar and the GCC, keeping the old environment available until the new one is proven in production.