Proxmox VE

“Don't get me wrong, its "ok", but I was coming from a VMware World and had gotten used to certain things.”

“I always somehow managed to break it in such a way that I can't remove the container/VM or start it”

“Debian base with Debian apt repos available for standard stuff, with ZFS built into their kernels. Easy to install.”

“It's Proxmox for me, any day. Even when I've completely knackered it I can always boot a systemrescuecd and mount and chroot the thing back to life.”

“The bigger shift is that Proxmox is starting to build more of the enterprise support, procurement, and operational structure around the platform.”

“the glue around, the good updates, the stability, the great integration with ceph, make the whole difference”

“so many things in proxmox that would normally release space, instead become nonfunctional when the disk is full”

“the much less mature (both organizationally and technologically) proxmox VE is the best thing since sliced bread”

“my current proxmox servers never had issues in updates, upgrades, migrations, and obviously restarts”

“It provides a button-y interface, but you can do everything via config files and `pct` on the command line if you prefer.”

“I was grateful Proxmox put a little warning in its hypervisor GUI with a button to press to fix the BIOS of its VMs”

“I have a Proxmox system but hate how much (IMO unnecessary) complexity managing VMs entails.”

“at least it was a span volume so we could use proxmox support for vmdk and achieve about 30 minutes of planned downtime”

“It's honestly been easy as hell to support and upstream support contracts are available for cheap as chips”

“All you need is a second hand dirty cheap Dell SFF computer from eBay, install Proxmox on it”

“tools like proxmox just add a node, you add new hardware, mark the VM for that node to mirror, and it is taken care of”

“It's simple to run well established tools like Proxmox on bare metal that will do everything Digital Ocean promises”

“some form of Proxmox with things like the above managed, it takes care of much of the overhead and doubt on it's own”

“I got my brother, who lives on the other side of the world and who's not a dev/sysadmin, just a poweruser, to install Proxmox”

“Proxmox supported a wider range of network cards that were more common in the cheap desktop computers I use in my homelab”

“but it’s less intuitive and usually involves setting up additional components like Proxmox Backup Server.”

“I was able to set up a multi-node cluster with more complicated networking than I was normally comfortable with”

“Thanks to Proxmox, I probably have better uptime on my services than e.g. Github these days.”

“ex-lease micro PCs are a fantastic deal and can be fun to setup and learn Proxmox and Truenas etc..”

“if they had something as nice as Proxmox (for free), I'd probably be using RPM distros for my hypervisors right now!”

“Proxmox just makes it so much easier to blow away and reinstall the OS without having to drag a monitor and keyboard to the server.”

“Wtf is a storage pool? What do I do with all these clusters, high availability thing it keeps asking about?”

“Proxmox isn't quite there yet for scalibility and hyperconverged but it is getting there really fast.”

“wasn't too bad once I got it working... but man was it rough figuring out getting my IP allocation routing right”

“The way it manages storage pools would fit your use case, if you import a zpool, for example, it will scan the datasets and can figure out what zvols should be attached to which VMs..”

“proxmox's netoworking is fundamentally wrong: its configured with consistent interface naming set the wrong way”

“PVE's high availability will auto evacuate a box when you put it into maintenance mode, so you get something akin to VMware's DRS out of the box, for free.”

“being able to throw together a bunch of old dead boxes and put proxmox on them in a weekend is a game changer”

“Their documentation seemed very thorough. I kinda expected a few issues, but everything worked flawlessly.”

“My cluster went from 6 to 7, 7 to 8 and recently 8 to 9, along with Ceph - all without a single problem.”

“proxmox even makes it easy by letting you run something like a raspberry pi as an additional quorum member”

“PVE is not OCI runtime compatible yet, that's why this is marked as tech preview, but it can be still useful for many”

“I love it, I use it, but I swear there has to be a more straightforward way to implement this technology.”

“The only thing missing making Proxmox difficult in traditional environment is a replacement for VMware's VMFS”

“I can't attest to Proxmox in a production/cluster environment but (barring GPU passthrough) it's very accessible for homelab and small network.”