I have thus far migrated 5 of our clusters from Vmware to proxmox using a variety of storage systems. (on top of all our new deployments being Proxmox)
We did not elect to go down the ceph route for some of the reasons you mentioned as well as the additional maintenance expertise/overhead.
For smaller sites with 2 hosts ZFS replication works great and is cheap to setup.
Other sites we had existing Netapp storage using NFS and FC. NFS is simple to setup and makes the migration from Vmware very quick and easy but the performance leaves much to be desired, even with dual 40gb nics on the...
We did not elect to go down the ceph route for some of the reasons you mentioned as well as the additional maintenance expertise/overhead.
For smaller sites with 2 hosts ZFS replication works great and is cheap to setup.
Other sites we had existing Netapp storage using NFS and FC. NFS is simple to setup and makes the migration from Vmware very quick and easy but the performance leaves much to be desired, even with dual 40gb nics on the...