Proxmox or ESXI
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Decision making process for private cloud and network container in home lab to get hands dirty; so, Proxmox or ESXI? I am familiar with EXSI having used it with a FreePBX project however, I have seen many members here use Proxmox as well as ESXI...any preference?
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@nollipfsense
I run pfSense in HA on ESXi and my home pfSense on KVM. Both do their jobs very well and work flawlessly.
The only issue I met so far, was on ESXi pfSense logged some disk errors while running a backup with Veeam, but this did not affect any function.So I'd recommend, take what you prefer.
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@viragomann Thanks for the reply...hope we can hear from those with Proxmox...
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Proxmox VE was a gamechanger for me. It completely changed the way I test most things.
So, yeah, I run it and couldn't be happier. I know a lot of the other guys here also do.
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Proxmox VE for sure. ESX is very picky about hardware, Proxmox VE is much more forgiving. I appreciate that I can just toss more storage at it by plugging in SSDs via USB for non-critical test VMs rather than using NFS. ESX wouldn't dream of allowing that.
Updates on Proxmox VE are super easy (it's just
apt), every update on ESX was a scary adventure never knowing what would break.Clustering in Proxmox VE works nicely, too, and is freely available. I can shuffle VMs around live and they carry on like nothing happened.
I will say in some areas ESX nudged it out on speed but not enough for me to deal with its headaches.
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This is super awesome feedback, thank you...Proxmox it shall be!
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Most of my workloads sit in ESXi.
Any strategy you can think of in moving over the proxmox? -
I use PVE. Everything is very stable and no problems.
