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Yeah, I was only ever a ‘casual’ ESXi user (we only ever had a couple of hosts and two dozen or so VMs, and nothing super mission critical), and I’m amazed at how good Proxmox is now we’ve started using it instead of ESXi given the Broadcom acquisition.

Obviously if you’re running dozens of hosts and thousands of VMs, needing live migration and things like that, then it’d probably be missing a lot of features you’d want, but for smaller stuff it’s pretty crazy how well it works.



Live migration works very well on both local and shared storage. Both products also have a hyperconverged solution if you like that sort of thing.


It live migrates fine. Done it many times to upgrade cluster nodes, moving live VMs back and forth.




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