I built my first Proxmox cluster on a Friday night. 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 power blip hit the rack. Both nodes came back online. No VMs…
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,…
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…
