For anyone curious about potential open-source migration options given the prospect of uncertainty around VMware pricing and support: - xcp-ng[1] is a support-

For anyone curious about potential open-source migration options given the prospect of uncertainty around VMware pricing and support: - xcp-ng[1] is a support-available fork of XenServer. Migration[2] can be performed using export to OVA format and subsequent import into the built-in Xen-Orchestra interface. - proxmox-ve[3] provides a management UI for Linux Virtual Machine (LVM) and Linux Containers (LXC) hosts and provides various vendor migration guides[4]. Both commercial and community support[5] is available. - The Xen Hypervisor[6] is capable of hosting x86 and ARM virtual hosts, and their project provides a VMware migration guide[7] [1] - https://xcp-ng.com/ https://xcp-ng.com/ [2] - https://xcp-ng.org/docs/migratetoxcpng.html#from-vmware https://xcp-ng.org/docs/migratetoxcpng.html#from-vmware [3] - https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve [4] - https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE#Virtual-to-Virtual_.28V2V.29 https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox... [5] - https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve/support https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve/support [6] - https://xenproject.org/developers/teams/xen-hypervisor/ https://xenproject.org/developers/teams/xen-hypervisor/ [7] - https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Migration_from_VMware https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Migration_from_VMware