Subj : Re: ESXi -> Proxmox
To   : deon
From : Accession
Date : Sat May 03 2025 08:08 am

Hey deon!

On Sat, May 03 2025 06:40:12 -0500, you wrote:

>> I have ESXi running on my Intel NUC.  I'm running 8.0U3c & I
>> believe the latest version is now 8.0U3e.

> Me to - actually I have ESXi on a variety of things, including Pis
> and an APU1D.

I also run ESXi here, but I'm stuck on 6.5U1 or something like that. Haven't really been able to find a way to upgrade it easily since Broadcom took it away, either.

> So Im thinking the same thing - of switching over to Proxmox. I'm not
> a fan of Debian though, but I though if I did change, then I should
> suck up and get used to it.

I've messed with it in a VM, just to see what it was all about. If you do most of your admin stuff in the webUI, then you really don't have to deal with Debian much. Seems like it works nicely, moreso than my current version of ESXi.

Sometimes, when setting up a new VM it will jack up all the settings to negative numbers, and I have to wipe it and start over. Sometimes Logging off the ESXi webUI and re-logging in seems to fix it.

> So, Im tossing going all in on proxmox for it too, or going
> kubernetes (using talos).

> Decisions, decisions...

There's a couple other options, as well.. like oVirt (RedHat), XenServer or xcp-ng (custom CentOS) or bhyve (BSD), if you don't need containers. However, at this point I tend to lean towards Proxmox or xcp-ng for ease of use, and free. The major player between the two is one supports containers, and the other doesn't (I don't need containers, but still would lean towards Proxmox).

Proxmox most likely has the best community and support, too.

> Keen to see how you fair, but Paulies enthusiasm has me thinking
> maybe I should try proxmox.

At the moment, I'm in no rush. Even this old cranky version of ESXi keeps running just fine, so I don't really care to change it. If I were to get new hardware at some point, I'd most likely use Proxmox and just do a live migration between the two.

Regards,
Nick

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