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Chapters
00:00 - Intro: Why Leave VMware
01:15 - Why This Guide And Other Guides
01:44 - Management Tools: vCenter vs. Proxmox Clustering
03:29 - Proxmox Datacenter Manager (Multi-Cluster)
04:18 - The CLI
04:43 - Licensing: Open Source vs. Subscription
05:49 - Compute & VM Concepts: QEMU Guest Agent
06:12 - LXC Containers (No VMware Equivalent)
06:55 - Migrating from VMware: The Import Wizard
07:28 - CPU Types & 9.2 Cluster-Wide Management
08:00 - Storage Model & Thin vs. Thick
08:49 - ZFS as a First-Class Citizen
09:21 - Ceph: The vSAN Answer (and Hardware Reality)
11:18 - Networking: Linux Bridges
12:18 - SDN & the vDS Comparison
12:41 - 9 2 SDN Additions (WireGuard, BGP, EVPN)
13:28 - Built-In Firewall
13:49 - Clustering, Quorum & the Two-Node Problem
15:00 - Live Migration (vMotion)
15:18 - Proxmox HA Manager
15:36 - HA Arm/Disarm (New in 9 2)
16:04 - Dynamic Load Balancer / DRS (New in 9 2)
16:57 - CPU Compatibility for Live Migration
17:09 - Snapshots & the ZFS Portability Caveat
18:48 - Changed Block Tracking & Backups (PBS)
19:55 - Templates & Cloning
20:07 - No Content Library Equivalent
20:28 - cloud-init
20:36 - What’s Different: Honest Assessment
22:19 - What You Gain
23:30 - Some Final Thoughts