The LMZ officially documents paedML on Proxmox - and refers to service providers for the virtualization layer. That is exactly who we are: setup, monitoring and maintenance during holidays, for individual schools and entire school authorities.
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Three developments are converging: the end of VMware's academic programs, the official paedML documentation on Proxmox, and a school environment that prefers open source anyway.
Broadcom discontinued the VMware IT Academy and Academic Licensing in August 2024. The education sector has been without academic discounts since then - renewals have reportedly more than doubled in some cases (per TechTarget, ComputerWeekly).
The Landesmedienzentrum Baden-Württemberg (LMZ) publishes the guide "paed.ML auf Proxmox" - making Proxmox officially "an alternative virtualization solution to VMware" for paedML. The path is documented, not experimental.
No mandatory licenses, full transparency, no vendor lock-in. linuxmuster.net relies on this too: the official documentation (v7.3) uses Proxmox as its base - in essence, because this hypervisor matches the open-source concept.
The LMZ Baden-Württemberg publishes the guide "paed.ML auf Proxmox" (version 1.4, dated 5 Nov 2025, 31 pages) - it covers paed.ML Linux/GS 8.0, Novell 4.6 and Windows 5.4 and, per the document itself, is explicitly aimed at "IT service companies, IT administrators". We implement exactly this guide:
The LMZ documentation puts it literally: virtualization is "fundamentally one of your service provider's tasks" - and Proxmox is "an alternative virtualization solution to VMware". The LMZ hotline supports paedML independently of the virtualization layer; for Proxmox questions, the LMZ refers to service providers.
So you keep LMZ support for paedML - and with us you get the service provider for everything underneath: Proxmox, storage, backups, monitoring.
School authorities rarely look after just one school. So instead of x individual solutions, we build one standardized model rolled out per site - with one contract and one point of contact.
One proven reference setup, rolled out identically at every school: same hardware recommendation, same network structure, same backup strategy. That makes costs and operations predictable across all sites.
We proactively monitor host metrics, VM status, backups, and storage health across all school sites around the clock and address relevant anomalies early.
Access is via a secure VPN connection - no open port on the school network, all access traceable. You can find the connectivity details on our VPN services page.
View VPN servicesSchool IT has a calendar no data center has: holidays. We consistently schedule updates, upgrades and major maintenance during school holidays - lessons run undisturbed and the teaching staff notices exactly nothing. Critical security patches are of course applied during the year as well, coordinated and outside teaching hours.
The timing for infrastructure projects is favorable: DigitalPakt 2.0 provides a new funding framework for digital school infrastructure - and explicitly also for professional support and administration structures.
As of July 2026. Implementation is regulated by the states - please clarify eligibility for your specific case with the school authority and state. We supply the technical service specification.
School authorities need numbers that survive budget planning. Our model: one-time fixed-price setup per school, then ongoing operations as Managed Proxmox from €179.90 per node per month - tiered by number of schools and nodes, with no hidden items.
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Yes. The LMZ Baden-Württemberg officially documents paedML on Proxmox ("paed.ML auf Proxmox", version 1.4, dated 5 Nov 2025) - for paed.ML Linux/GS 8.0, Novell 4.6 and Windows 5.4. We implement exactly this guide: OVA/OVF import, network and bridges, VirtIO drivers and the product-specific follow-up work per paedML variant.
No. The LMZ hotline supports paedML regardless of what it is virtualized on - that support remains fully intact. For the virtualization layer, the LMZ refers to service providers: the guide states that virtualization is "fundamentally one of your service provider's tasks". That is exactly the role we take on - the LMZ remains responsible for paedML, we for the Proxmox foundation underneath.
Yes. paedML is specific to Baden-Württemberg, but the operating model is not: linuxmuster.net is used nationwide and relies on Proxmox as its officially documented base (v7.3), and we virtualize generic school IT - administration servers, specialist applications, backups - regardless of the federal state. Remote maintenance and monitoring work independently of location.
We calculate transparently by number of schools and nodes: standardized setup per school, central monitoring, maintenance during holidays. Ongoing operations start at Managed Proxmox from €179.90 per node per month - for school authorities with multiple sites we prepare a tiered framework offer that you can use directly in committees and budget planning.
As of July 2026: the federal and state governments agreed on DigitalPakt 2.0 on 18 Dec 2025 - €5 billion through 2030 (split equally between federal and state level), including a €2.25 billion federal share in action line I (infrastructure); early project starts have been possible since 1 Jan 2026. Eligible items include digital infrastructure and professional support and administration structures. Implementation is regulated by the states - clarify eligibility for your specific case with the school authority and state; we supply the technical service specification.
Via a secure VPN connection with no open ports on the school network - all access is personalized and logged, and a data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR is part of the standard setup. Data stays on the school's servers; our monitoring transmits technical metrics only. Details: WZ-IT VPN services.
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