Moving off VMware Hypervisor to something else - need input
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@dave247 said in Moving off VMware Hypervisor to something else - need input:
All I really care about if we move to Proxmox is that we can store VMs in our storage controller and use the hosts for compute, similar to how we're doing it with VMware today.
That's actually just a question of iSCSI, NFS or whatever, not even shared block.
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@travisdh1 said in Moving off VMware Hypervisor to something else - need input:
Those are two completely different things, with next to no similarities. VMFS is a shared filesystem (better compared to something like Gluster.) LVM is a volume management layer that a filesystem sits on top of.
Exactly. Two unrelated topics. I think what people were trying to say is that many people don't do shared storage but do sharded storage instead on ProxMox. And I say "yes, that's true, because most of us on ProxMox always don't want the problems of shared storage."
VMware people do as they are sold. ProxMox people design for what's best. Therefore are less likely to use techniques that aren't broadly useful unnecessarily when alternatives might be simpler.
Really, that person was likely describing the deficiencies in the VMware support ecosystem broadly, but was part of that deficit and didn't realize it.
