VMware migration performance modeling is the step most teams skip — and the one that determines whether the exit succeeds or fails. Panic over the Broadcom acquisition is over. Now it’s execution. And as more enterprise teams rush to leave VMware, most are treating hypervisor migrations like a simple server swap. That’s where production outages…
I still have nightmares about a storage migration I ran back in 2014. We were moving off a monolithic SAN and onto an early “software-defined” storage platform. The sales engineers promised infinite scalability and self-healing magic. Two weeks in, a top-of-rack switch flapped, the cluster split-brained, and the SDS platform completely lost the plot. We…
The “Proxmox curiosity” of 2023 has evolved into the “Proxmox mandate” of 2026. After two years of Broadcom’s portfolio “simplification” — which felt more like a hostage negotiation for mid-market IT — architects are no longer asking if they should move, but how to do it without losing their weekends. I’ve spent 15+ years watching…
The proxmox 2 node quorum fix is a 15-minute deployment that most engineers skip until Saturday morning teaches them why it matters. Two beefy nodes. Shared storage. HA enabled. I shut the laptop feeling smug — I had just replaced a six-figure VMware stack with two commodity servers and some Linux magic. Saturday morning, a…
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware forced thousands of teams to ask a dangerous question: “Why not just move everything to Proxmox? It’s free.” On paper, Proxmox VE is the perfect escape hatch. It is open-source, capable, and battle-tested. Management hears “free hypervisor” and assumes the migration is a simple file transfer. A VM is a VM,…
