Subj : Re: Choice of hypervisors
To   : tassiebob
From : vorlon
Date : Sat Jul 09 2022 11:05:10

Hi tassiebob,

 >  vo> That's one of Proxmox's advantages, 95% was done via a browser.
 >  vo> Having upgraded to 6.5 of ESXi, I now have been able to ditch it's
 >  vo> config program.
 > 
 > One of the advantages I've found with Proxmox is that it'll do some
 > things out of the box that (I think) you need a license for with ESXi
 > - live migration is one example.

yes, plus doing native backup's (That's only supported in paid for ESXi)

 > I have 3 hosts and can live migrate VM's between them if I need to. 
 > It's not as nice as it could be because I don't have shared storage on
 > my personal cluster, so it has to do a live migration of the discs as
 > well, but for what I do I can live with that.

I haven't needed to go down that route. I do have the sata/sas controller
on hardware pass through with ZFS so it's pretty easy to take the drives
etc to a new temporay hardware if need be.

Also a regular backup system in place, so it's easy to restore to a new
vm or even real hardware.



\/orlon
aka
Stephen


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