ModernOps is an authorized Proxmox reseller partner. We migrate estates off proprietary licensing, engineer the platform, and support it around the clock, so the license savings stay with you and the pager stays with us.
Price, support and feature comparison on two-socket hosts, with the differences listed in both directions, including how a 20-minute response compares with the vendor offers.
48-core CPUs, USD list pricing. vSphere 9 requires VVF at roughly $135 per core per year, which puts the VMware column at $6,480 per socket. Proxmox Standard converted from €550 at 1.17 USD per EUR, excluding VAT; White Glove shown at $145 per two-socket host per month.
What each subscription includes when production is down.
| Broadcom Production Supportincluded with vSphere | Proxmox Standard$644 per socket per year | Proxmox Standard + ModernOps White Glove+ $145 per host per month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coverage | 24/7 for Severity 1. Severity 2 to 4 in business hours. | 24/7* | 24/7/365, every severity |
| Critical response target | 30 minutes | 4 hours | 20 minutes |
| Tickets | Unlimited | 10 per year | Unlimited |
| Channels | Phone, web portal | Portal, remote SSH | Phone, portal, remote SSH |
| First call reaches | Broadcom support queue | Proxmox engineers | Senior ModernOps engineer |
| Escalation | Broadcom engineering | Proxmox developers | Proxmox developers on your subscription, with ModernOps carrying the ticket in parallel with our own work, and whichever side resolves it first closes it. |
| Patching and point releases (9.2 to 9.3) | Customer | Customer | Included, done for you |
| Major version upgrades (9 to 10) | Customer | Customer | Same engineers, scoped engagement |
| 24/7 monitoring with alert triage | Separate tooling | Separate tooling | Included. Only alerts that matter reach you. |
| Critical event at 2 a.m. | You open a Severity 1 | You open a ticket | Our NOC starts remediation over SSH while we call you. |
*Proxmox support goes 24/7 on October 19, 2026. Premium subscribers go first; Standard subscribers are added during a Q4 2026 onboarding window. Today, Standard support runs Monday to Friday, 07:00 to 17:00 CET. Sources: Broadcom Production Support datasheet; Proxmox pricing page and press release of September 2, 2026.
Proxmox VE 9.2 (May 2026) against vSphere Standard, capped at 8 Update 3.
Sources: Broadcom vSphere edition comparison datasheet (8 U3); Proxmox VE 9.2 release notes.
ModernOps White Glove Support is added to any paid Proxmox subscription: $145 per host per month on Standard or Premium, $195 per host per month on Basic. Billed per host. Volume pricing available as your host count grows.
Vendor layer: 3 tickets a year, next-business-day response, portal only. ModernOps carries the rest.
Vendor layer: 10 tickets a year, 4-hour response on critical requests, SSH remote support. The tier we quote most often.
Vendor layer: unlimited tickets, 2-hour response on critical requests, 24/7 vendor coverage. Two layers of round-the-clock support.
Proxmox subscriptions converted from EUR list pricing (€370 / €550 / €1,100 per CPU socket per year) at 1.17 USD per EUR, excluding VAT. Two-socket host shown; other configurations quoted per host. ModernOps price is per host regardless of socket count.
Whether you are evaluating, migrating, building, or ready to hand off infrastructure operations, each service below starts with the same 30-minute technical consult.
We move estates onto Proxmox VE in waves: assessment and dependency mapping, a pilot that proves TCO and performance on your workloads, then scheduled cutovers with validation checklists and a rollback plan at every step. You get out of per-core licensing without betting your uptime, and the team that migrates you stays on your account afterward.
Plan my migration
Proxmox VE installs in an afternoon, and a production-grade design takes longer: quorum and fencing designed correctly, Ceph or ZFS storage architecture, stretched metro clusters for site-level resilience, isolated cluster networking, and backup restores proven before go-live. Doing that work once avoids a rebuild in month six. If you already run Proxmox VE, we will audit and harden what you have.
Book a deployment review
Production on Proxmox VE, run end-to-end by ModernOps: monitoring, patching, capacity, incident response, backup, and recovery, delivered as a service at open-source economics. Add DR as a Service (replicated to a second site, restore-tested on a schedule, documented) to limit an outage to an afternoon. Your engineers ship projects while ours carry the pager.
Price a fully managed environment
Run it yourself, with support that answers at 2 a.m. Around-the-clock first- and second-line support from ModernOps engineers, backed by official Proxmox subscriptions, so every ticket has a path from your first call to the developers themselves through a single number and a single accountable partner.
See support packagesAs an authorized Proxmox reseller partner, ModernOps sells official Proxmox subscriptions, provides first-line technical support, and escalates directly to the engineers who write the software. Our team designs, migrates, and operates Proxmox VE clusters every day, from hyper-converged Ceph builds to stretched metro clusters, and stays on the account from the first quote through the 2 a.m. incident.
Proxmox VE is fully open source (AGPLv3): zero license fees, every enterprise feature included. Budget flows to hardware, projects, and people, rather than renewals.
Subscriptions are per CPU socket, at published prices, with no per-core arithmetic, no audit exposure, and no surprise multiple at true-up.
Open standards, a transparent code base, and no vendor lock-in, which also strengthens your position in every renewal negotiation that follows.
Proven import tooling from VMware environments, migrations in waves, rollback plans at every step, with our engineers on the bridge.
Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete, open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. It tightly integrates the KVM hypervisor and Linux Containers (LXC), software-defined storage and networking functionality on a single platform, with high availability for clusters and integrated disaster recovery tools, all managed from one web interface.
And much more: download the Proxmox Virtual Environment datasheet from proxmox.com.
Proxmox Datacenter Manager is a centralized, open-source management layer for distributed Proxmox infrastructures. It provides a single control plane for multiple Proxmox Virtual Environment and Proxmox Backup Server remotes across clusters, sites, and data centers, giving IT teams a complete overview of large-scale environments.
Basic, Standard, and Premium subscriptions include the Proxmox Datacenter Manager enterprise repository and support, and ModernOps designs multi-site estates around it.
Proxmox Backup Server is an open-source, enterprise backup solution for backing up and restoring virtual machines, containers, and physical hosts. Incremental, deduplicated backups with authenticated encryption; restore full virtual machines, archives, or single objects in a flash; synchronize copies to remote sites, with ransomware protection built into the design.
Download the Proxmox Backup Server datasheet from proxmox.com.
Proxmox Backup Server is the backbone of our DR as a Service: your recovery point lives offsite, verified, and restore-tested on a schedule.
ModernOps takes Proxmox support to the next level: senior engineers who know your environment, answer the phone in 20 minutes, work the incident inside your cluster, and have direct access to the engineers who write the software. When a fix belongs upstream, we carry the vendor ticket to closure. You talk to one team.
Every call reaches a senior ModernOps engineer within 20 minutes, at every severity and every hour of the year.
Storage layout, quorum design, network isolation, backup targets, change history. Documented at onboarding and on screen before the engineer says hello.
We watch every host around the clock, filter the informational alerts, and tell you when something deserves attention. You decide when we step in.
Security patches and release updates on versions we have tested and signed off. Planned with you, run by us or with you, included in the price. Major version upgrades run as a professional services engagement with the same team.
When a fix belongs upstream, we open the ticket on your official subscription and drive it to closure with the Proxmox engineers.
An incident takes what it takes. Tickets and support hours are unlimited, and the same team is on the next call.
Yes. Proxmox VE is developed commercially by Proxmox Server Solutions, established 2005, with enterprise subscriptions, SLA-backed response times, and a stable Enterprise Repository of thoroughly tested updates. Over 2 million active hosts run it worldwide. Open source removes the license bill and the lock-in, while subscriptions and ModernOps supply the accountability.
Two things production needs: the Enterprise Repository, the stable, tested update channel with security fixes as they arise, and technical support from the Proxmox developers, with defined response times. Every feature is included without a subscription, and if a subscription lapses your servers keep running.
Managed correctly, it is a sequence of small, reversible steps rather than a leap. Proxmox VE imports VMware virtual machines directly, and our runbook wraps that in waves: pilot first on representative workloads, cut over in scheduled windows, validate against checklists, keep rollback ready at every step. In our migrations a workload has typically needed one short, planned window, and the pilot tells both of us what to expect before production moves.
Within one cluster, yes: every node carries the same level, priced per CPU socket. Separate clusters can run different tiers, which is where right-sizing saves money: Premium for the clusters the business depends on, Standard or Basic elsewhere. We work that out in the consult.
Yes, and that is one of the most common ways engagements start. We run a deployment review first: quorum and fencing, storage layout, network isolation, backup restores proven under test. Then we harden what needs it and wrap it in the support or managed package that fits, keeping the cluster you built.
Fully managed means ModernOps runs your Proxmox VE estate end to end: monitoring, patching, capacity, incident response, backup, with an official Premium subscription included per socket. DR as a Service adds a replicated recovery site, scheduled restore tests, and documented runbooks. You receive the reports and we carry the pager.
It escalates on your official subscription straight to the Proxmox engineers, and ModernOps drives the ticket to closure, so the vendor coordination stays with us. That escalation path is the practical reason to buy subscriptions through the partner who also answers your phone.
Fully supported. Windows Server and client guests run on Proxmox VE with VirtIO drivers for performance, and virtual TPM support covers the Windows 11 requirements, alongside Linux and other guest systems.
Bring your node count, socket count, and, if you have one, your current renewal quote. You will leave a 30-minute consult with a clear answer on fit, a migration or deployment path, and subscription pricing.
