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Proxmox Consulting & Services for Businesses
Migration, Clusters, Backup & Support

As a Proxmox Silver Partner, Blueteam supports organisations with planning, migration and secure operation of Proxmox VE and Proxmox Backup Server (PBS). From assessing your existing environment to designing clusters and backups and providing ongoing support, we tailor the work to your infrastructure.

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Proxmox VE and Proxmox Backup Server virtualisation solutions

Why Proxmox?

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) and Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) offer a powerful, open alternative to vendor-locked virtualization platforms such as VMware or Hyper-V. They combine enterprise-grade functionality, flexibility and cost transparency – ideal for mid-sized businesses, hosting providers and educational institutions.

Your benefits at a glance:

  • Open source with enterprise power:
    no vendor lock-in, full control over your environment
  • Future-proof platform:
    combination of KVM & LXC for VMs and containers in one system
  • High availability & scalability:
    high availability with appropriately designed clusters and storage
  • Integrated backup mechanism (PBS):
    deduplication, encryption & incremental backups
  • Transparent costs:
    subscriptions instead of expensive licensing models

And because we come from IT security, we think further:
We incorporate security and backup requirements into the architecture and help implement suitable protection and recovery measures.

Our services as Proxmox partner

Blueteam does not just deliver software – we implement complete, secure IT infrastructures with Proxmox VE and PBS.

  • Consulting & strategy:
    • Analysis of your existing infrastructure and potentials
    • Cost-benefit comparison (e.g. VMware vs. Proxmox)
    • Migration and investment planning
  • Planning & architecture:
    • Design of clusters, storage topologies & networks
    • High-availability & failover scenarios
  • Implementation & customizing:
    • Installation of PVE & PBS, configuration & cluster building
    • Setup of backup, DR & security concepts
    • Regular tests, restore drills & monitoring
  • Migration & onboarding:
    • Migration of existing VMware or Hyper-V environments
    • Migration using agreed maintenance windows and measures to minimise disruption
    • Validation & optimization of the target environment
  • Operations & support:
    • Monitoring, performance alerts & SLA contracts
    • Patch, update & security management
    • Proactive optimization & failure prevention
  • Training & knowledge transfer:
    • Workshops & hands-on training for administrators
    • Best practices for high availability, backup & disaster recovery

Technology & features at a glance

Proxmox VE

  • Web GUI, CLI & API for full control
  • Live migration, snapshots & replication
  • Multi-master cluster for high availability
  • Networking with VLAN, bonding & SDN functions

Proxmox Backup Server (PBS)

  • Deduplicated, incremental backups
  • End-to-end encryption & integrity checks
  • Multi-site synchronization & REST API
  • Compression via Zstandard

Storage & integration

  • Seamless integration of Ceph, ZFS & external storage
  • Flexible pooling & replication
  • Recovery planning & offsite backups

Implementing or migrating to Proxmox: Our approach

From architecture decisions to reliable operations, with coordinated migration, backup and support processes.

1. Assess your environment

We review your current virtualisation setup, dependencies, storage and availability requirements. This informs the target architecture, resources and migration plan.

2. Build & migrate

We configure Proxmox VE, clusters, networking, storage and, where required, Proxmox Backup Server. Workloads are migrated with testing and agreed maintenance windows.

3. Protect & support operations

We review restore procedures, monitoring and failover scenarios, document the environment and assist with updates, optimisation and support.

Related Blueteam services: For broader projects, we can also help with IT systems integration, network architecture and strategic security consulting.

Frequently asked questions about Proxmox VE & PBS

Practical answers about migration, high availability, backups, pricing and ongoing operations.

Yes. We assess your current VMware workloads, plan the transition and test the target environment with you. Actual downtime depends on the systems, dependencies and migration method.

Proxmox Backup Server supports incremental, deduplicated backups, encryption and integrity checks. A reliable recovery strategy also requires suitable retention policies, separate backup destinations and regular restore testing.

A correctly designed high-availability environment can restart affected virtual machines on available nodes. Recovery depends on quorum, shared or replicated storage and the overall architecture. This does not guarantee uninterrupted operation or zero data loss in every scenario.

Yes. Proxmox VE is suitable for production virtualisation. Appropriate hardware, network and storage architecture, security updates, tested backups and a defined support model are important for reliable operation.

Costs depend on host and VM counts, existing systems, storage and backup needs, migration complexity and ongoing support requirements. After an initial assessment, we can discuss the necessary services and any relevant Proxmox subscriptions.

Depending on the agreed scope, we can assist with configuration, monitoring, updates, backup and restore testing, troubleshooting and further development of your Proxmox environment. Response times and operational responsibilities are agreed individually.

Planning a Proxmox migration or cluster?

Whether you are moving from VMware, building a new virtualisation platform or improving backups, Blueteam can assess requirements, identify risks and help plan the next steps.

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