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Three identical black compact servers side by side on a wooden shelf, two with green status lights and the middle one with a yellow light

VMware to Proxmox After Broadcom: The Real 3-Year Cost for a 3-Host Small Business

Broadcom publishes no per-core price, so nobody can hand you a VMware total. We can price the Proxmox side to the dollar, count the 96 cores you would license on VMware, and show the one per-core quote that makes the two equal.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 11 min

Rows of enterprise server racks in a data center, representative of VMware vCenter-managed infrastructure

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hackers broke into 361 companies' VMware servers in under a week — and they're not leaving

A 9.8-severity bug in vCenter's syslog server went from patch to active exploitation in five days, and attackers are planting permanent backdoors, not just stealing data.

Aliteq Team · Aug 14 · 6 min

Enterprise server hardware running virtualization infrastructure, representing the VMware ESXi and vCenter systems patched against CVE-2026-47876

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Broadcom just patched a VMware bug that lets a VM take over its host. it's not even the worst one

CVE-2026-47876 lets a VM break out and run code on the ESXi host underneath it. Broadcom patched five bugs at once — and the one graded lower is actually getting all the headlines.

Aliteq Team · Jul 31 · 8 min

A server rack — Proxmox VE runs virtualization clusters

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your Proxmox 8.4 box stops getting support in August. here's the 9.2 upgrade

Proxmox VE 8.4 stops getting support in August. 9.2 finally adds the automatic load balancing VMware refugees kept asking for — and I think the upgrade is worth doing for that alone, deadline or not.

Aliteq Team · Jul 20 · 8 min