I know the process. There’s also the option of attaching an ESXi datastore to a Proxmox system and importing it that way. The PCIe passthrough makes it a little more complex but not insurmountable. I’ve built the Proxmox server on another host with 10Gbe ports and am going to rebuild that way. Export the config, modify what I need to, import the sections I need and swap cables.

Once I’ve swapped hardware, I’m putting Proxmox on the current VMware host and I’ll have a backup system just in case of hardware failure.

I’m also doing some other stuff, replacing HAProxy with Caddy, maybe deploy a grafana dashboard so I can start monitoring all 60+ services on my network, and configure my network for IPv6.