Leaving VMware for XCP-ng? Here's What You Need to Know First [YouTube Release]

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Chapters
00:00 - Introduction: Why VMware Admins Are Looking at XCP-ng
00:30 - Sponsor: Meter
01:10 - How to Use This Guide & Linked Tutorials
01:55 - Management Tools: vCenter vs. Xen Orchestra
03:49 - Licensing: Free vs. Subscription (and What That Actually Means)
05:50 - NSX vs. XO SDN Controller
06:46 - Compute & VM Concepts: VMs, vCPUs, Guest Tools, Memory
08:31 - Migrating VMs: V2V, OVA Import & Disk Format Options
09:31 - Storage: Datastores vs. Storage Repositories (SR)
10:07 - Thin vs. Thick Provisioning: How It Works Differently in XCP-ng
10:57 - XOSTOR vs. vSAN: Hyperconverged Storage Compared
11:10 - Disk Formats: VHD vs. QCOW2 and the New 16TB Limit
12:07 - Networking: vSwitch, Port Groups, VLANs & PIFs
13:28 - Pool-Level Networking: How It Replaces Distributed vSwitch
14:57 - High Availability, Clustering & Pool Concepts
15:32 - Live Migration & Storage Migration (XenMotion vs. vMotion)
16:36 - DRS vs. Workload Balancing & Fault Tolerance Gap
17:19 - CPU Compatibility for Live Migration (vs. EVC)
18:07 - Snapshots, Coalesce & Changed Block Tracking (CBT)
18:53 - Xen Orchestra Backup vs. vSphere Data Protection & Veeam
20:35 - Templates, Cloning & Cloud-Init
21:08 - Quick Reference Cheat Sheet & Honest Assessment
21:47 - What You Gain: Licensing, Open Source & Community
23:47 - XCP-ng vs. Proxmox: Why There Doesn’t Have to Be One Winner
24:21 - Wrap Up