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If you are used to and like VMwares toolset you wont like Proxmox.

I would not switch an enterprise from VMWare -> Proxmox without a really thorough analysis of what that will mean.

That said the future of VMware is certainly in question.



Check out xen


If you want to run Windows VMs with all the security features enabled, xcp-ng / xen is a non-starter as it's been completely broken for years with no fix in sight:

https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/105

Proxmox / KVM is the only alternative to ESXi that can support all of Windows security mitigations such as Core Isolation, which requires nested virtualization.


Or KVM. Probably no enterprise type solution like something kubevirt-based really makes sense at that scale.


We run a few tens of thousands of VMs on kubevirt, it’s quite fantastic.


Well yeah. I agree. The comment up thread is running a dozen VMs and running Kubernetes with kubevirt for just that is probably overkill.


+1 -- we moved to XCPng when citrix played this same game with xenserver a few years ago, and it's been a very positive move.


How is xen a suitable alternative to VMware in a situation where proxmox isn't?





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