Managed Proxmox in France

    We operate your Proxmox VE cluster: 24/7 monitoring, maintenance, backups and on-call, under contract, at €150 excl. VAT/month per hypervisor.

    Still working out whether outsourcing makes sense for your organisation? Managed Proxmox: who is it for? sets out the decision criteria and compares in-house cost against outsourced cost. This page describes what you are buying.

    What the contract covers

    Our responsibility

    • Monitoring the hypervisors, the cluster and the Proxmox services
    • Security updates and Proxmox VE version upgrades
    • Configuring and maintaining high availability and Ceph storage
    • PBS backups: scheduling, retention, restore testing
    • Incident handling through to resolution, on-call included
    • Operating documentation, kept current at every change

    What stays with you

    • The inside of the VMs: guest systems, applications, databases
    • Your application vendors' licences
    • Business calls: which VM is critical, which maintenance window
    • The hardware, if the cluster is yours — we operate it, you own it

    System administration inside the VMs is a separate contract: managed services beyond the hypervisor cover guest operating systems, middleware and applications. The two are subscribed separately and stack.

    Service commitments

    These commitments are contractual. The exact terms, penalties and duration are set out in the quote.

    CommitmentLevel
    Infrastructure availabilityTarget: 99.9% on a cluster (under 8h45 of downtime per year), 99.5% on a single VM
    Critical incident (P1)4-hour response time, 24/7 — pickup, not restoration
    Critical incident (P1), enhanced level1-hour response time, 24/7, at €250 excl. VAT/month per hypervisor
    Standard incident4-hour response time during business hours (may require an on-site datacenter visit)
    Point of contactA dedicated technical contact, reachable by ticket and email
    Architecture reviewQuarterly, with recommendations and roadmap
    BillingMonthly, per managed hypervisor
    Enhanced SLAMulti-site architecture with geographic replication, on quote

    What the response-time commitment covers, and what it does not. It covers picking up the incident, not restoring service. Until the diagnosis is done, nobody can honestly promise a repair time: we sell neither a restoration SLA (GTR) nor an RTO, and 1 hour is the strongest response-time commitment we sell.

    An operational measurement, not a commitment. In practice, 80% of our interventions are picked up within the hour. That is a measurement of how we operate, not a promise: what the contract carries is the response times above.

    On your site, or on ours behind a private link

    Managed services apply to both. What changes is where the cluster runs and how your users reach it. If the choice between keeping an in-house server room and moving to a datacenter is still open, we have costed both sides: cooling, UPS, on-call duty.

    Your cluster, on your premises

    The cluster runs on your hardware, on your premises or in your datacentre. We operate it remotely, over a dedicated administration link.

    This is the usual case for companies that have already invested in their servers and only want the operations off their hands.

    Our cluster, wired to your offices

    The cluster sits in our racks at Equinix Paris, and a private L2L link we provide carries your VLAN to your premises: private addressing, dedicated VMs, no transit over the public Internet. The fibre circuit is ordered and held by RDEM.

    RDEM Systems runs its own network — AS206014, BGP routing, the services hosted on that network (in French) — and stands behind the circuit for you; the detail of our datacentre infrastructure covers the sites, the power and the interconnection. Hosting rates are on the pricing page ; the private circuit is quoted separately.

    If the estate still has to come off VMware, that cutover is the VMware to Proxmox migration engagement — managed services take over at sign-off.

    Infrastructure operated from France

    RDEM Systems is a French company operating its own network infrastructure in France, at Equinix Paris. Only backups are geo-replicated to a second site in Germany (in France on request) — the distance between sites is exactly what makes geo-replication worth having — hosted by a French provider, under French law and EU jurisdiction.

    French Company

    RDEM Systems SAS
    SIREN 820 338 671
    5 B RUE DES NOYERS
    95300 PONTOISE, France

    AS206014 Network

    Autonomous network operator
    Proprietary BGP routing
    Direct peering in France

    Datacenters in France

    Our own racks at Equinix Paris; VMs also hosted on servers rented from OVH in France

    Supports your GDPR compliance

    Production in France, backups in Germany (EU), in France on request
    No transfer outside EU
    DPA contract included

    Exit Closed American Ecosystems

    We help businesses exit closed ecosystems (VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP) toward sovereign solutions. Your infrastructure stays under French control, without GAFAM dependency. Real-world example: multi-datacenter client case (fr) (6 VMs across 3 datacenters, 99.95% uptime).

    What Our Managed Proxmox Service Includes

    Complete management of your virtualization infrastructure so you can focus on your business.

    24/7 Monitoring

    Continuous monitoring of your Proxmox clusters with proactive alerts. Anomaly detection before they impact your services.

    Preventive Maintenance

    Security updates, Proxmox VE patches, performance optimization and proactive capacity management.

    Dedicated Expert Support

    Team of engineers experienced with Proxmox VE in production, available to answer your questions and resolve your incidents.

    High Availability

    HA cluster configuration and management, Ceph replication, live migration and automatic failover.

    Backup & Restore

    Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) configured with custom retention, regular restore testing and immutable anti-ransomware backup.

    Our managed Proxmox Backup Server

    Personalized Support

    Quarterly architecture reviews, optimization recommendations and infrastructure evolution roadmap.

    Managed Proxmox Pricing

    Managed Proxmox Cluster

    Complete infrastructure management

    • 24/7 monitoring with proactive alerts
    • Preventive maintenance and updates
    • PBS backup management
    • Dedicated technical support
    • High availability configuration
    • Custom documentation

    €150 excl. VAT/mo

    per hypervisor

    i.e. €180.00 incl. VAT/mo

    The rate is per managed hypervisor, whatever the number of VMs running on it. Hosting and off-site backup are billed separately.

    Need a custom offer? Contact us for a personalized quote, or compare the Essential, Pro and Critical plans to position this offer.

    Not decided yet? Managed Proxmox: who is it for? compares this rate against the cost of a sysadmin in-house.

    Frequently Asked Questions About Managed Proxmox

    Managed Proxmox is a service where an expert provider handles the complete administration of your Proxmox VE infrastructure: installation, configuration, maintenance, monitoring, backups and support. You benefit from a high-performance infrastructure without needing to hire in-house expertise.

    Choosing RDEM Systems, a French company (SIREN 820 338 671), gives you a contract under French law. We operate our own network (AS206014) with our own infrastructure at Equinix in the Paris region, and VMs also hosted on servers rented from OVH in France. One exception: geo-replicated backups sit on a second site in Germany (in France on request), run by a French provider — the distance between sites is what makes geo-replication worth having. French-law contract, data within the EU, a framework that supports your GDPR compliance, and French-speaking contacts based in France.

    AS206014 is our Autonomous System number, attesting that RDEM Systems is a recognized independent network operator. We control the network chain, from BGP routing to our servers, hosted in datacenters.

    Standard hosting only provides infrastructure (servers, network). With managed Proxmox, RDEM Systems also handles the entire software layer: optimal cluster configuration, high availability management, automated backups, proactive monitoring and expert technical support. You no longer need to worry about system administration.

    Absolutely. Proxmox VE is used in production by thousands of companies worldwide, including critical environments (finance, healthcare, industry). With proper configuration (HA clustering, replicated Ceph storage, PBS backup), Proxmox offers reliability comparable to or even better than VMware, at a significantly lower cost.

    Our managed Proxmox offering starts at €150 excl. VAT/month per hypervisor, including 24/7 monitoring, preventive maintenance, security updates, technical support and backup management, with a 4-hour response time, 24/7, on critical incidents. The 1-hour response time brings the price to €250 excl. VAT/month per hypervisor. Custom options are available based on your specific needs.

    Yes, that's even our specialty. We assist many businesses in their VMware to Proxmox migration, particularly following post-Broadcom price increases. Our methodology includes a complete audit, detailed migration plan, validation testing and post-migration support.

    We target 99.9% availability on a managed Proxmox cluster, meaning under 8h45 of downtime per year, and 99.5% on a single VM. It is measured and published monthly, but it is not a contractual commitment: what we commit to is the response time (critical incidents picked up within 4 hours, 24/7, or within 1 hour at €250 excl. VAT/month per hypervisor). For critical environments requiring higher availability, we offer multi-site architectures with geographic replication.

    Our support is reachable by ticket and email; critical incidents trigger the on-call rotation (PagerDuty). For critical incidents (P1), we commit to a 4-hour response time (GTI), 24/7, in the €150 excl. VAT/month per hypervisor plan, and a 1-hour response time, 24/7, at €250 excl. VAT/month per hypervisor: that is the strongest level we sell. Standard incidents are picked up within 4 hours during business hours. The commitment covers picking up the incident, not restoring service: until the diagnosis is done, nobody can honestly promise a repair time, so we sell neither a restoration SLA (GTR) nor an RTO. In practice, 80% of our interventions are picked up within the hour, but that is an operational measurement, not a contractual commitment. Each client has a dedicated technical contact.

    Yes, we can take over management of an existing Proxmox cluster. We first conduct an audit of your infrastructure to identify necessary optimizations, then integrate your environment into our monitoring and maintenance processes.

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