Turnkey VMware-to-Proxmox Migration Kit Sized For 5-Host SMBs Burned By Broadcom's Subscription Re-Bundling
Broadcom's VMware re-bundling has produced reported 150–1200% cost increases, with vSphere Foundation now around $4,500/CPU/year. Proxmox is free and the technical migration path (Veeam restore, virt-v2v, ESXi import in Proxmox 8.x) works — but it requires hypervisor expertise no five-person law firm or dental office actually has. MSPs serving SMB are getting flooded with migration requests, and there's no shrink-wrapped 'plug this USB stick in, click two buttons, get an inventory + migration plan' product aimed specifically at the 3-5 host shop.
The wrong move is to white-label Proxmox and add a control plane. Proxmox's own UI is fine. The right move is to be the migration-day partner: pre-flight inventory, license reconciliation, customer-facing comms templates, and a Sunday-night Slack channel with a real human. Sell the assurance, not the bits.
landscape (3 existing solutions)
The technology is mature and free. The packaging is missing. The opportunity is a $999 'Proxmox SMB Kit' — a USB stick + scripted inventory tool + remote office-hours support — that lets an SMB IT generalist execute the move in a weekend. Whoever owns this category becomes Acronis-for-Proxmox.