any of you IT types have experience of this? I have been using VMware essential for many years, but obvs Broadcom have bombed that option, so it is time to man up and make a change.
Single host, with 2nd older host used for replication copies just in case via Veeam CE… mixture of Windoze and Linux workloads
it looks like Proxmox is a viable alternative which can host my workloads and I should be able to migrate them, but I am looking for any real world experience?
cheers
esxi is free
and yeah I tried proxmox a while ago when Broadcom were being twats.
Don’t touch it unless you want to spend ages learning how to use it. It really is not intuitive like vmware
it is again now, and I did use that for several years prior to Essentials, would need to change backup mechanism to ghettoVCB or something similar
Have you got a QNAP or Synology NAS?
I use the QNAP hyper data protector for backing up my VMs (snapshots) and I have over 40x as a mix of Linux and windows.
I think the Synology Active Backup for Business works with ESXi free
Both have options for backing up esxi. I did an F&O in 2024 for them to backup one of our lab environments as veeam was about £40k
QNAP performed better and was more stable so I bought that and also started using it at home