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Planning Checklist

VMware exit readiness checklist.

Use this checklist to collect the facts that shape a VMware exit or Proxmox VE migration plan before hardware is purchased or downtime is scheduled.

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Collect First

Facts that change the migration design.

Current Estate

  • VMware version, host count, host age, CPU, memory, NICs, and storage controllers
  • VM count, critical services, operating systems, and dependency groups
  • Current pain: licensing, hardware age, performance, support, or operational complexity

Storage and Backups

  • Datastore types, shared storage, local storage, snapshots, and growth rate
  • Backup product, restore expectations, retention, and offsite copy requirements
  • Any applications with strict consistency or recovery requirements

Network and Cutover

  • VLANs, switching, uplinks, management networks, and remote access needs
  • Maintenance windows, rollback tolerance, and systems that cannot move together
  • Target Proxmox VE expectations, cluster size, and support owner after cutover

Decision Points

The readiness review should surface the hard calls early.

Before a migration starts, decide whether hardware is reused or refreshed, whether storage changes, how backups are handled, what downtime is acceptable, and which systems need test migrations first.

Useful outputInventory summary, dependency map, target cluster direction, migration sequence, rollback considerations, and cleanup list.
Common missAssuming storage, backups, and networks will behave the same after the hypervisor changes.
Next stepSend the checklist details through the contact form and include any hard deadline or licensing trigger.

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