Stackvolve
We train IT teams to run open infrastructure with confidence, and we also deliver migrations, platform builds, and recovery engineering when execution support is needed.
About
Stackvolve Systems combines training and delivery. We train teams on Proxmox and Ceph operations, and we design and execute migrations off proprietary hypervisors, storage platforms, and desktop stacks.
Remote-first delivery; on-site workshops and cutover support by arrangement. The goal is not only a successful cutover, but long-term operational ownership — practical capability, runbooks, and a platform your team can operate without vendor lock-in.
Training
Training is a core offer at Stackvolve Systems — alongside migration and delivery. We train your team and can stay to implement, so knowledge transfer and execution are aligned from day one.
Operational training for IT teams that need to deploy, run, and troubleshoot production Proxmox VE clusters.
Practical Ceph training focused on healthy day-2 operations, performance awareness, and recovery discipline.
Training plus planning for organizations preparing to leave closed stacks and execute controlled migration waves.
Practices
Each practice stands alone — or assembles into a full private-cloud exit across compute, storage, and recovery.
Exit VMware or Hyper-V for Proxmox VE and KVM — including estates where desktop delivery (such as Omnissa VDI) is part of the move, not the whole story.
Replace proprietary SAN/NAS lock-in with resilient open fabrics — Ceph at the core when scale, self-healing, and hardware freedom matter.
Move recovery off opaque appliance stacks to open, testable backup and replication you can actually restore from.
Approach
We treat the cutover as an engineering program — not a weekend hope. Risk drops when sequence, validation, and ownership are explicit.
Map hosts, storage, network, and desktop delivery. Quantify renewal exposure and cutover constraints.
Target architecture on open components — capacity, failure domains, VDI placement, and rollback paths.
Execute in waves backed by custom orchestration. Keep users productive. Prove each wave before the next — including desktop sessions where VDI is in scope.
Backup, restore drills, monitoring, runbooks, and team handover so the open stack is operable without us in the room.
Tooling
Migrations this size are not done by hand. We run custom orchestration for mass migration, guest preparation, and DR restore — and open-source the pieces that are ready for others to run and inspect.
Wave-based cutovers from closed hypervisors to Proxmox at fleet scale — disk import, guest readiness, and progress you can operate, not click through by hand.
Template → clone → sysprep pipelines for desktop and server identity — including Win11-style VDI pools where every clone must be unique and joinable at speed.
PBS → PVE restore engines for recovery drills and disaster paths — multi-source restores, tagged groups, and live restore patterns you can rehearse before you need them.
Open-sourcing in progress
Environment-specific tooling when your estate doesn’t fit a generic playbook. More releases as we clear client and license constraints.
Work
For a 1,000-user organization we moved the core estate from VMware to Proxmox VE backed by Ceph — a confidential engagement. That included server workloads and, as one stream of the same program, desktop delivery that stayed on Omnissa VDI while the hypervisor underneath changed. Custom migration and guest prep tooling carried the waves.
Full architectural transition: ESXi cluster teardown, VirtIO injection, Ceph-backed HCI, and a sequenced, wave-based cutover designed to keep disruption bounded and reversible.
Part of the estate ran Omnissa VDI. Those desktops were not a separate project — they moved with the platform. Omnissa stayed as the desktop layer; Proxmox and Ceph became the compute and storage underneath.
Contact
Book a 15-minute technical discovery call. We’ll review your team, environment, and goals, then define the right mix of Proxmox/Ceph training, migration support, and implementation help.
Discovery call
Discovery is a free 15-minute scope call. Training and delivery are quoted after we understand your environment — no obligation from the call itself.
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