A global infrastructure provider whose Bare Metal Cloud delivers dedicated servers with cloud-style API provisioning. The strongest landing zone on this list for re-platforming to Proxmox or Hyper-V — or running your own VMware licenses on hardware you control.
phoenixNAP is a global IaaS provider headquartered in Phoenix, with locations across the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Its flagship offering is Bare Metal Cloud: single-tenant physical servers provisioned in minutes through an API, CLI, or Terraform — dedicated hardware with the operational ergonomics of cloud. Around it sit traditional dedicated servers, colocation in its flagship Phoenix facility, DRaaS, and backup services.
In a VMware-exit context, phoenixNAP represents the re-platforming path rather than the managed-VMware path. Because bare metal is hypervisor-neutral, you choose the stack: Proxmox VE for the open-source route, Hyper-V if you are leaning into existing Windows Server licensing, XCP-ng, or even vSphere under your own licensing if you want to keep VMware but exit your current hosting arrangement.
This is the structurally cheapest family of exits — you stop paying for a hypervisor premium entirely if you go open-source — but it shifts operational responsibility back to your team. phoenixNAP provides the hardware, network, and facility layers with strong automation; the hypervisor, the VMs, and the 2 a.m. pages are yours.
The economics tend to be compelling for steady-state workloads: dedicated hardware at fixed monthly rates, without hyperscaler-style egress and per-service metering. For organizations with real Linux/virtualization skills, the total cost frequently lands far below both Broadcom renewals and managed-cloud alternatives — at the price of owning the operations.
If Broadcom's pricing has convinced you to leave the VMware ecosystem rather than just relocate within it, you need somewhere to land the new stack. phoenixNAP's Bare Metal Cloud is purpose-built for that: spin up dedicated nodes via API, build a Proxmox or Hyper-V cluster, migrate VMs with conversion tooling, and own your platform outright.
It also serves the in-between case — keeping vSphere under your own licensing on hardware you no longer have to buy, rack, and refresh yourself.
Tell us about your VMware environment and a Foretel advisor will bring back proposals from phoenixNAP and 2–3 comparable providers — with an honest recommendation on which fits.
