With all of the changes at Broadcom affecting smaller customers, it’s great to see Proxmox adding the ability to migrate directly from VMWare. While VMWare is a best-of-breed hypervisor, many customers use a fraction of VMWare features – and tools like Proxmox VE can provide an effective hypervisor with commercial support and a great feature set.

• Based on Debian Bookworm (12.5)
• Latest 6.8 Kernel as new stable default
• QEMU 8.1.5
• LXC 6.0.0
• ZFS 2.2.3
• Ceph Reef 18.2.2
• Ceph Quincy 17.2.7

Highlights

• • New import wizard to migrate guests directly from other hypervisors.

    Connect to other hypervisors using their public APIs and directly migrate guests to Proxmox VE.

    First implementation is for VMware ESXi.

    Guests can be started on Proxmox VE while their data is still being imported to the target storage in the background.

More information is available here.