>_ The Post-Broadcom Migration Series Complete — Part 1 — Execution Physics Beyond the VMDK: Translating Execution Physics from ESXi to AHV ▶ Part 2 — Resource Contention (You Are Here) The Controller Tax: Modeling Hyperconverged Resource Contention Complete — Part 3 — High-I/O Cutover Migration Stutter: Handling High-I/O Cutovers Without Data Loss Complete —…
There is a belief in infrastructure circles that refuses to die: “Nothing beats local NVMe.” And for a single box running a transactional database, that’s mostly true. If you are minimizing latency for a single SQL instance, keep your storage close to the CPU. But AI clusters aren’t single boxes. And as we detailed in…
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…
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,…
