I am moving off VMware and am looking at Proxmox and XCP-NG. I am leaning towards XCP-NG because I can power down hosts and move VMs without them being in a cluster. I have eight hosts with two clusters now, but when not actively working with the system, I can run most of my necessary VMs on a single 1u server with 2 12 12-core processors. Or on three single 8-core processors, which are currently in a cluster with VSan and have fast SSDs. All my servers have drives I would like to use. I do have 3 Synology NASs with shared ISCSI and NFS drives. What is the best way to share at least the fast SSDs? I know there are XOStor and Ceph.
Which one would be easier to set up and maintain? Is XOStor a paid feature? Or just go with Proxmox Ceph and hope Datacenter Manager flushes out and stay on VMware until it does……
yes, XOstor is a paid feature.
XO can import VMs directly from vCenter.
Thanks, so is Ceph a pain to install and maintain on XCP-NG?
Somewhere there is supposed to be a guide to rolling out xostor since it is made from open software, management might be command line only or buy XOA. I haven’t had time to chase all this down.
There is a learning curve to understanding it, but there is also a risk when doing updates that things can go wrong and are very challenging to fix. Any Hyper-converged solution will also have a performance cost due syncing the data between the systems, so make sure you understand how it will perform before going with that type of solution.
Though I have never tried to Proxmox, I have successfully and painlesly migrated VMware to Hyper-v several times via Veeam and I know Veeam now supports Proxmox. It can live boot a backup on the other hypervisor and restore it to a delta in the background that will merge when complete. Just remember to uninstall WMware tools before the migration, total downtime per system as down/differential/live boot ~1.5 minutes?
Thanks for all the input. I think I will just use shared storage to start and worry about local drives later. VSan could be a pain as well. One last thing: Does XCP-NG have power control for DRS, or is it all manual?
P.S. I do love VMware and have been using it for close to 20 years and was a partner but Broadcom sucks it will be interesting to see if Horizon works on XCP-NG now that Brodcom sold it off……
Veeam is nice, but XO not only has backups but also has fully automated DR testing built in.
