I did a migration from ESXi to Proxmox just over two years ago (before the Broadcom massacre occurred). The switch wasn't even planned, as I'd bought new server gear who's disk controller was not supported by ESXi (my fault for not researching) and just jumped into the Proxmox deep end. I was shocked at how easy and rather painlessly I was able to migrate nearly every VM (mix of FreeBSD and Linux) to the new hypervisor. Adding in ZFS for local storage and a built-in backup solution to send those snapshots to my TrueNAS was like magic! Hope the new setup works out for you in the long run as well as it has for me!
@DBTechYT
18 күн бұрын
I like that your iOT VLAN is 666!
@earlem9771
18 күн бұрын
so does Lucifer
@FranckEhret
18 күн бұрын
The end... I had to laugh!!! 🤣 Rest in peace poor vCenter
@2GuysTek
18 күн бұрын
I’m glad you enjoyed the bit! Wasn’t sure how it was going to land! 😂
@FranckEhret
18 күн бұрын
@@2GuysTek I enjoyed it a lot... and for my part, I'm still waiting that my management will take a decision avout VMware. My lab will follow the decision and if we stay by VMware, I'll take VMUG again. I just don't have the time for 2 virtualizations technologies but I'll keep a nested instance of the other one, I never close doors!
@2GuysTek
18 күн бұрын
And that makes total sense. In the day job, we’re moving away from VMware, to what is yet to be decided.
@FranckEhret
18 күн бұрын
@@2GuysTek either way, I'll be happy... so I'm not worried about the outcome!😊
@glmchn
15 күн бұрын
Vcenter doesn't deserve what's happening to it, f u Broadcom, rip vcsa 🙏🕊️
@michaelbpharris
18 күн бұрын
Windows Server licensing does the same exact thing. Also happens with XCP-ng
@NFvidoJagg2
17 күн бұрын
Welcom to the prox-side and Dark Mode is the best
@tubeeichi81
17 күн бұрын
Removing the VMWare Tools after migration should work if you use the "old" Windows Software Center. Migration Speed is limited due to the VMWare settings for speed throttling for the backup feature (which Proxmox is using for the GUI-migration). You can also do live-migration over a NFS share. But this takes a few additional manual stept. On the other side you will learn a bit about the tech and the speed limitation for migration should be gone, too since you just mount the vmdk in Proxmox from the NFS and move it to the final storage. Also you shouldn't forget the The subsequent work after migration to optimize the performance of your VMs (virtio drivers for disk-drives and adding the quemu-agents. But i guess this is the topic of one of your following videos ;) Wish you lots of fun with Proxmox. I already have :)
@Ingeanous
17 күн бұрын
Switched from ESXi to PROXMOX about 5 years ago... no regrets....
@seansingh4421
16 күн бұрын
As someone who’s setting up open source and self hosted small business solutions for myself, I absolutely adore Proxmox. Like these people behind it are the best. I have yet to see another hypervisor being so user friendly while being free for us non-corporate customers. I just hope the IOMMU supports hardware HSM passthroughs one day though.
@cervisiaveritas7093
18 күн бұрын
Revo uninstaller in advanced mode works well to remove a forgotten VMWare tools on Windows
@2GuysTek
18 күн бұрын
Appreciate the tip!
@wojtek-33
18 күн бұрын
For "folders" you want to use resource pools. You create pools of guests and then you can change the view to show the pools. Also you want to use virtio nics in your guests unless you have a specific reason to use something else.
@hule8899
13 күн бұрын
Tah I think not many people knows about and use those different views. Problem in the Pools view is that you cant se Hypervisor stats.
@wojtek-33
13 күн бұрын
@@hule8899 Just switch between views. Rarely would you need both at once.
@rvboyett
19 күн бұрын
I work for Omnissa and hope our VDI product, Horizon, eventually supports Proxmox. But I know other hypervisors are a higher priority.
@Mallikarjunaish
17 күн бұрын
I heard omnissa supporting nutanix now. What other hypervisors it supports as of today ? What’s in roadmap? Have you seen proxmox linked clones? Is it a competition to omnissa in any way?
@VictorEstrada
17 күн бұрын
I'm the VDI admin where I work. You guys should concentrate on multimedia redirection, and improving the compute experience.
@rvboyett
14 күн бұрын
@@Mallikarjunaish Sorry brother, I’m not allowed to say.. But announcements are coming relatively soon.
@rvboyett
14 күн бұрын
@@VictorEstrada I think you’ll see a lot more investment in the Blast development. In the past, VMware syphoned off a lot of our earnings to support other projects. Horizon and W1 had their development funding limited.
@walterp8945
2 күн бұрын
Thanks, Informative video run through of a migration. What is your experience with a ESXi VM with a HBA in passthrough mode? Something like the migration of a Linux storage VM having raw device access to the on-board SATA controller or PCIe HBA providing disks for a ZFS storage pool , would be interesting to see. Wonder of this get carried over without a hitch. My gut feeling pushes me towards exporting the ZFS pool and removing the passthrough controller prior to the migration but I might be mistaken.
@kirksteinklauber260
18 күн бұрын
Dude you missed Dark theme!!! common!
@sidenote1459
18 күн бұрын
not real techie smh
@2GuysTek
18 күн бұрын
lol
@rohityadavcloud
2 күн бұрын
We’ve seen vSphere/ESXi to CloudStack (KVM) migration in large production environments using the new CloudStack VMware migration tool, where one org migrate about 800-900 large VMs.
@ilovemyride1988
4 күн бұрын
what, if i have a VSAN Cluster, and all vm´s are located on the vsan and i have no option to migrate the vm´s to another storage that is supported from proxmox, what can be my migration way?
@romayojr
18 күн бұрын
12:50 disagree. unsubscribed 😂
@oneamongmany1392
18 күн бұрын
Is 1GB/s that slow; Esxi and KVM use different disk formats? The disk has to be read, converted and re-made. I'd expect it to be tied to the CPU of the proxmox (and yours is certainly a beast!), but i saw another comment on here about how it is also depending on quickly Esxi allows the virtual disk file to be read.... Commercially, the company I work for, produce VMs and state support for Openstack. But from what i hear product management are going to open it up to 'all KVM platforms' (kind of impossible to QA every Linux platform out there IMO), but I guess it's to ensure we support customers doing exactly like you did.
@gilbert1975nf
12 күн бұрын
I rather do the migration via CLI using SSHFS and qm disk import, than use thw WEB UI. I just like the old school way. Duno, but works better for me.
@tomklein6540
18 күн бұрын
Did the same couple of months ago, you probably chose ProxMox because of the hardware support/newer kernel. That was my problem with XCP-NG.
@someofthissomeofthat6014
13 күн бұрын
Thanks for the info. Are you sure you and Kevin Smith aren't related?
@jackz166
Күн бұрын
I have been using Proxmox for years.....
@ivanlawrence2
18 күн бұрын
Dark Mode All The Things!
@crazychatting
16 күн бұрын
about the light mode: try to work at evening/night where everything is dark around you and your monitor. it will burn your eyes or maybe you will get headache. and if you think you are only working at day or you have always lights around yourself turned on, think about other people watching your videos at night! btw having the monitopr not being to display bright content saves much energy. thatswhy also big monitoring walls at operations centers have a black background...
@Darkk6969
10 күн бұрын
Yep. For a long time ProxMox didn't have the dark mode. Someone had to make a custom script to modify the web server files. Now it's built-in which is awesome.
@gamergamer2990
17 күн бұрын
vmware gone for good unless broadcome come to their mind and fix that
@augurseer
18 күн бұрын
Dark mode is better
@2GuysTek
18 күн бұрын
Respectfully disagree! 🤣
@Alexandernesslon
17 күн бұрын
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@rob_southgate
19 күн бұрын
Why did you choose Proxmox over Xcp-ng?
@brockwilkie6022
18 күн бұрын
I am also curious for the what was the deciding factor was
@asbestinuS
18 күн бұрын
@@brockwilkie6022 I don't know but for me a big factor is ZFS which Proxmox nativly supports
@2GuysTek
18 күн бұрын
There were a variety of reasons I officially decided to move to Proxmox, and this is something that probably should have been touched on in the video. 1) Out of all of the FOSS hypervisors in the market right now, Proxmox is getting the most attention and visibility. Just look no further than Veeam's decision to officially support it 2) The development speed around Proxmox feels (at least) to be more active and aggressive and having it running on a more updated Debian kernel, getting regular patches, etc. is important to me. 3) As @asbestinuS also mentioned, native support for ZFS was another big benefit. Being able to leverage ZFS natively cuts down on RAID hardware which, as long as you have the RAM for ZFS, is a big benefit. I'll never say that I'm going Proxmox for good though, and there's still a ton of things that I don't really like about Proxmox (I'm working on a rant video about this, so sorry about that in advance! ;-). But the reality is that the shakeup of VMware really did open up a world of possibility for the future of virtualization and I still think we have at least a year or two before we see clear winners in the on-premises virtualization world.
@chiefgecko
18 күн бұрын
Because Proxmox Virtual Environment, Proxmox Mail Gateway, and Proxmox Backup Server outclass XCP-ng.
@joebonsaipoland
16 күн бұрын
Until Proxmox supports Citrix VaaD it’s a no go
@muhdbunahmad
18 сағат бұрын
It's not late.
@coreyman00
16 күн бұрын
you ideally should have 4 nodes for vsan
@ws_stelzi79
17 күн бұрын
Oh someone that likes light mode!? 🤔 Well what about your clothes and hat? They are not in "light mode".🤪 And just wait when you can't turn off "light mode" on your beard.😟
@fbifido2
16 күн бұрын
@3:30 - can you show how you created the 5 network under SDN ???? - did you created the SDN under Datacenter or on the node itself? why i am asking is, if you get another Proxmox server will the SDN be copied over to the new Node?
@JairoRizzoitalcol
18 күн бұрын
About time, good choice!
@nelsone.hernandez6654
18 күн бұрын
I expected requiring reactivation of Windows. Thankfully I should be able to activate again. I also expected the renaming of network adapters in Linux. Thank you for sharing your migration experience
@kreaweb-be
8 күн бұрын
What took you so long? 🙂
@nadtz
17 күн бұрын
I've done manual VM migrations from Xen and ESXi to proxmox and it's not that bad but it's nice to have a point and click method of doing it.
@stevemeier7876
16 күн бұрын
you could have tried Veeam as it supports proxmox now and restored backups to it.
@sargenthp
18 күн бұрын
I am still evaluating a VMWare replacement for our enterprise. Since we are more interested in VM's and not containers/cloud... I am currently down to Proxmox and oVirt/Oracle VM Manager.
@debnathmriganka2010
18 күн бұрын
Sir, can you tell onething if i want to use one 1 tb Hdd but some portion for promox and other free space for other purpose, how to do this or any way to use a pendrive for only proxmox server.
@timmitchell9021
18 күн бұрын
The different OS types in the VM config during import are used for prefilling sensible defaults.
@hardingd100
18 күн бұрын
I'm surprised no one has brought up the issue of thin provisioning when migrating. I was surprised to find out that even when choosing qcow2, the disks came out the other side as a full size disk. You have to import 'the other way' to get that to work.
@GregariousDudeGaming
18 күн бұрын
Excellent video Rich! Love the migration and going through the steps you took! Keep up your amazing content!
@michaelj.6460
18 күн бұрын
You do a great job with your videos. Thank you for the excellent and timely content.
@tactoad
17 күн бұрын
In regards of windows licensing you can migrate the SMBIOS UUID from the VM to Proxmox. It can solve some licensing issues.
@derekbush6340
16 күн бұрын
Any tips on how?
@tactoad
16 күн бұрын
@@derekbush6340 Options menu on the VM in Proxmox
@Dion8-sp3zk
19 күн бұрын
Nice
@jeffnew1213
18 күн бұрын
Three new ESXi hosts in the last month for the home lab. Eighty Dell Sapphire Rapids ESXi hosts coming in at work. As Rick Astley sang, "Never gonna give you up."
@homehome4822
18 күн бұрын
Have you tried migrating a vcenter vm?
@2GuysTek
18 күн бұрын
I have not, it still existing in the offline ESXi stack. What's your thinking?
@hanneslaimer8851
18 күн бұрын
It'll work, importing VMs directly from vCenter. But VMware does some weird traffic routing which leads to even slower migration speeds. They expose the disks over HTTP and all Proxmox does is basically download them, speeds are a direct result of how fast stuff comes out of VMware.
@homehome4822
18 күн бұрын
@@hanneslaimer8851 I meant vcenter itself. I've seen issues with the 14 or something disks vcenter creates... They don't migrate over or hit some kvm limitation... Probably by design
@da99beast
18 күн бұрын
@@homehome4822 I had the same issue - Just to keep it around, I created a virtual ESXi VM on my promox and moved the vcenter VM to it. I doubt I will need it as it has been 4 months since I switched now.
@homehome4822
17 күн бұрын
@@da99beast great minds think alike. That was my workaround too. With everyone on KZitem showing off proxmox's new V2V migration tool I was hoping for a way to get vcenter off exi.
@esnmb
18 күн бұрын
Biggest thing holding me back is that there is no DRS like load balancing yet.
@2GuysTek
18 күн бұрын
This really is a glaring hole in Proxmox's feature set. 100% agree!
@thetux0815
17 күн бұрын
Not even for the load balancing necessarily, though, that would be nice. Just simple quality of life features like the ability of freeing up a host for maintenance without touching every single VM by hand. So yea I miss DRS
@bertnijhof5413
18 күн бұрын
Interesting and frighting. My question is, what caused the loss of the activation. The change of the virtual disk UUID or the change of hypervisor? Since 2009 I use Virtualbox and I have collected ~70 VMs. I have all Windows releases from 1.04 (1987) till 11 Pro (2024) in a VM. My oldest VM still in use is Windows XP Home installed and activated in March 2010. It survived 2 Virtualbox owners; 3 desktops and 4 CPUs and it never lost its activation. The same is true for almost all of my Windows VMs. They are still activated, only Vista lost its activation and I had the feeling, that Vista activation was more strict and not really adapted for the VM area yet. Note that Windows XP's control panel -> system shows that I run a Ryzen CPU, so Windows knows the host CPU. When I run the VM on my laptop, it nicely indicated the i5 CPU of my laptop.
@2GuysTek
18 күн бұрын
My suspicion is that it was due to the quantity of changes that occurred in the migration. There's no 'official' document from Microsoft that outlines what hardware changes force a reactivation, but in this migration a lot changed, like CPU type, disk serial and ID, storage controller type, etc. Either way, if you're having success staying within Virtualbox for your VMs, you're probably not going to have to worry about it. But, if you decide to migrate those VMs to Proxmox or something else, you're likely going to have the same issues.
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