Proxmox isn’t “Free” vSphere: The Hidden Physics of ZFS and Ceph
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,…