A Proxmox Partner That Manages the Whole Environment, Not Just the Platform
Next Step is an Authorised Proxmox reseller, helping Australian businesses assess, migrate to, and manage virtualisation environments built on Proxmox - whatever brought you to this decision, and whatever you're currently running.
Why businesses end up talking to us about Proxmox
There’s Usually a Specific Problem Behind the Question
Businesses come to this conversation from a few different directions: a licensing renewal that no longer makes commercial sense, a hardware refresh that raises the question of what to replace it with, a hypervisor decision that needs to get made properly the first time, or a Proxmox environment that’s already running but was never properly architected.
Whichever one applies, most MSPs lead with a product or a refresh. Next Step leads with an assessment and a recommendation. Proxmox is the platform we most commonly recommend for Australian SMBs and mid-market businesses — but we’ve earned the right to say that by leading with advice, not a pitch.
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Further reading, if VMware licensing is part of what brought you here:
Our recent piece, Why More Australian SMBs Are Quietly Moving Off VMware, covers what changed with Broadcom’s acquisition and the numbers worth knowing before a renewal. Structured so an owner or CFO can jump straight to the figures, and an IT manager can jump straight to the technical detail.
What We Cover
From first migration to day-to-day management, this is the full scope of what's included:
Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE)
The core virtualisation platform — one console for every virtual machine and container you run.
VMware Import
A built-in import wizard brings existing VMware virtual machines across without rebuilding them from scratch.
Proxmox Backup Server
Incremental, deduplicated backup built for fast recovery, not just storage.
Proxmox Datacenter Manager
One point of oversight across every site, once you're running more than one.
High Availability Clustering
No single point of failure, and no separate management server to buy and maintain.
Software-Defined Storage
Ceph and ZFS support built in, without a separate storage licence.
Migration Planning & Roadmap
A staged plan for what moves and when, agreed before anything changes.
Ongoing Management & Support
Monitored and supported as part of your standard care plan — not handed back to you once it's running.
How We Approach a Proxmox Environment
Assess
your current environment, whatever it's running today, and what's actually driving the decision.
Migrate or build
a staged plan, whether that's moving existing workloads across or standing up a new environment properly from the start.
Manage
supported under the same agreement as the rest of your IT, so it stays off your list of things to worry about.
Pricing transparency
Scoped to What You're Actually Running, Not a Guess
Support is scoped to your environment and the subscription level it actually needs, not sold as a fixed platform fee regardless of size.
Why Businesses Choose Next Step
Full Ownership, Not Just Advice
One team, one relationship, one number to call. We manage the platform, the migration and the vendor relationship so nothing falls into the gap between suppliers.
Reporting You Can Actually Act On
Technology risk and cost translated into plain language, not technical jargon, so decisions get made with confidence.
Forward Planning as Standard
Every client gets a technology roadmap. You'll always know what's coming, what it costs, and why it matters, before it happens.
Response Times You Can Hold Us To
Every incident is logged, prioritised and worked to a committed target, not a best guess.
Thirty Years Deep
Next Step has been doing this since 1994. The platforms have changed. The commitment to getting it right hasn't.
Talk to Someone Who'll Give You a Straight Answer.
No sales script, no pressure to sign today.
Just an honest assessment of your environment and what Proxmox would actually look like for it.