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Key Takeaways: The Philosophy Shift: Moving to Proxmox is not a hypervisor swap; it is a storage philosophy change. VMFS abstracted physics; ZFS and Ceph expose them. The ZFS “RAM Tax”: ZFS delivers data integrity but will aggressively consume a large chunk of your host RAM for ARC if untuned, often around half the system…
Key Takeaways The “Like-for-Like” Trap: Trying to map vSphere constructs 1:1 to Nutanix AHV or Proxmox destroys the ROI of the migration. The Hidden “Technical Debt” Tax: Migrating snapshots, mounted ISOs, and “zombie” VMs turns a 2-week cutover into a 6-month nightmare. Network Refactoring: Rebuilding complex NSX-T overlays on a new hypervisor is often unnecessary;…
In my fifteen years of architecting enterprise stacks, I’ve seen vendors come and go, but I’ve never seen a shift quite like the one we are witnessing today. For two decades, VMware wasn’t just a hypervisor; it was the bedrock of the data center. You didn’t choose it—you standardized on it because the ecosystem provided…
The Year Two Decision: Architecting for expensive stability or painful modernization. The shock is over. The tweets have faded. The “Broadcom killed VMware” headlines are yesterday’s news. Now, you have a quote on your desk. Welcome to Year Two. If Year One was about denial and anger, Year Two is about the cold, hard math…
I’ve walked into too many “ready-to-migrate” VMware environments where leadership swore everything was clean. No snapshots in vCenter. Healthy datastores. Backup jobs green for years. And yet—replication stalled, cutovers failed, and migration timelines collapsed. The common thread wasn’t tooling. It wasn’t network bandwidth. It was snapshot debt hiding in metadata. VMware environments accumulate it quietly,…
The most dangerous part of a hypervisor migration isn’t moving the data—it’s moving the logic. In the VMware ecosystem, NSX-T is often a sprawling, network-centric overlay. In the Nutanix ecosystem, Flow Microsegmentation is a workload-centric attribute. If you attempt a 1:1 “lift and shift” of your firewall rules without understanding the underlying philosophy shift, you…
In our previous guide, we covered the milestone event of Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC) officially supporting Horizon 8 on Nutanix AHV. We discussed the “why” and the high-level “how” of getting your workloads migrated off ESXi and onto the native Nutanix hypervisor. Now, the dust has settled. Your connection servers are talking to Prism Element,…
Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC) has officially announced the General Availability (GA) of Horizon 8 on Nutanix AHV with the release of Horizon 8 version 2512. For the last decade, “Horizon” and “vSphere” were effectively synonyms. If you wanted the premier VDI experience, you paid the vSphere tax. With the Broadcom acquisition of VMware and the…
