Open-source alternative  ·  Disaster Recovery

Replace Azure Site Recovery with Proxmox Backup Server + Ceph.

Proxmox Backup Server for incremental VM backups with deduplication, plus Ceph for cross-site replication. Full DR orchestration with automated failover. Self-hosted, no per-VM protection fees.

You'd keep~R55 560 to ~R111 000/year

Current licence  ·  Disaster Recovery

Azure Site Recovery

~R55 560 – ~R111 000/yr

10-user estimate

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Proxmox Backup Server + Ceph

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R111 000/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Azure Site Recovery's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard

R55 560/yr

R463/user/month

Per protected VM

With Proxmox Backup Server + Ceph

Keep R55 560/yr

Enterprise

R111 000/yr

R925/user/month

Per protected VM

With Proxmox Backup Server + Ceph

Keep R111 000/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Azure Site Recovery grows around 10% per year on average. Proxmox Backup Server + Ceph hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR49kR98kR147kR197kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R179kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.78M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Azure Site RecoveryProxmox Backup Server + Ceph, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other disaster recovery migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

Migrate Azure Site Recovery.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.