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  1. W

    Complete Newbie to Proxmox

    Hey Guys, I am very new to Proxmox, and looking at it to replace ESX, as our costs have ramped up. I do appreciate these are newbie questions, however before I get some hardware to create a lab and learn I wanted to learn from the Kings here ! So to cut a long story short, im just looking at...
  2. M

    Import of Centos from Vmware fails

    Dear everybody, I am trying to import a Centos from Esxi using the import function in Proxmox I have attached the VM config, When I boot the machine, I just get below message Any advice would be highly appreciated
  3. patefoniq

    Broadcom and MS Azure moves

    Hi, I don't know where to post a topic like this, but I'm curious about your opinion (especially Proxmox staff's) about the recent Broadcom and VMware bought incident and last week's Microsoft and Broadcom agreement about support with moving client licenses from VMware to Azure. How do you...
  4. S

    Vmware VM migration - bandwidth limit

    Hi everyone, I don't know if I'm the only one and if I have some misconfiguration on the VmWare or Proxmox side, but this is my situation: I would like to migrate virtual machines from a vmware cluster (version 8) to a proxmox version 8.2.2, I followed the document...
  5. D

    Problems with WS 2019

    Hi I am importing a vm from vmwre into proxmox, the import ends correctly but when I turn on the vm (windows) it goes directly to automatic windows repair and does not allow booting Maybe you know if something is missing or I'm omitting something?
  6. M

    FreeSwitch Latency on Proxmox vs VMWare

    Hi, When we were running Freeswitch VM on VMWare, we had to change the latency option provided by VMWare to get the best performance. Link: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc/GUID-206CF841-F34E-4F54-855F-DA403311CB66.html I don't see such settings on...
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    [SOLVED] VMWare -> Proxmox | Storage Ceph - Fragen?

    Hallo in die Runde! Auch wir überlegen, einen Übergang von VMWare zu Proxmox zu realisieren. Stand bisher: VMWare Cluster 5 Nodes, 2 Storages mit SAS Anbindung Nun zu unseren Überlegungen: Unter Beibehaltung der bestehenden 5 Nodes wollen wir die bestehenden Storages gegen ein Ceph-Cluster...
  8. D

    Import .vmx

    Hi, i'm trying to import some .vmx files directly from a vmware disk. The vmware host is shutdown. I had a look at the recently added migration tool, but as far as i can see it can only import VMs from a live vmware server. Could it be possible to import .vmx files directly from disk and not...
  9. T

    VMware to Proxmox Migration HELP!

    Hello, I currently have a virtual machine that is running on VMware Workstation Pro. That virtual machine has very important licenses that are attached to the "physical" hardware of the virtual machine. I want to migrate that virtual machine to my Proxmox server, keeping all of the hardware...
  10. F

    VDI solution for Proxmox?

    I posted this over on /r/Proxmox as well. The organization I work at where I'm the Director of IT is heavily invested in VMware Horizon View - we have 14 Dell servers with dual EPYC CPUs and 3 datacenter class Nvidia GPUs with GRID vGPU licenses in each server. We host, on average, 200...
  11. J

    CentOS VM won't boot after migration from VMware

    Greetings! New Proxmox user here. Newly installed VMs are working fine and Debian VMs migrated from VMware ESXi 8.x are working well, but, I've having trouble migrating a couple of older CentOS VMs. The VMs were exported from the ESXi web client export option that creates OVF output. I've...
  12. bbgeek17

    [TUTORIAL] Storage Controller Efficiency Data for Bandwidth-Constrained Workloads on Shared iSCSI Storage

    Greetings everyone, Good news! We've managed to carve out some time to compile the latest data set for our ongoing exploration of Windows 2022 server on Proxmox. Part 3: Computational Efficiency of Storage Controller Configurations under Constrained Bandwidth Workloads Expanding upon the...
  13. M

    [SOLVED] Has anyone ever migrated VMware APC ups VM to Proxmox?

    Hi, APC VM is facing issues when I upload this to Proxmox. It starts with default settings, but ultimately it looks like it is not able to find the bootable drive. I used UEFI and disabled secure boot but no luck so far. Please suggest the configurations.
  14. W

    Converting Proxmox VM to VMware Using "Move Storage" in GUI.

    Hello all. After much searching it looks that the favored way to convert a Proxmox VM to VMware is the method of using qemu-img to convert it. As shown here: https://www.cinderblock.tech/p/migrating-proxmox-raw-lvm-to-vmdk-for-vmware/ If you use "Move Storage" in the GUI to convert to .vmdk do...
  15. bbgeek17

    [TUTORIAL] Deep dive into Storage Controllers, Compatibility, and Efficiency Metrics with Windows on Proxmox

    Hey everyone, Given the recent developments with VMware/Broadcom, we've noticed a surge in inquiries related to running Windows on Proxmox. To assist those transitioning away from VMware, we've thoroughly examined Windows Server 2022 storage controller compatibility, native driver support...
  16. K

    Windows Server VM booting problem

    Hi, I have a fresh install of proxmox ve in a host machine which I am using to test if I can migrate VMs from our VMWare community environment to PVE. I have migrated a 2012 server VM to pve using OVFTools (tutorial used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jCEe4sfe_g ). After restoring the VM in...
  17. M

    Migrate VMware VMs to Proxmox

    Hi, We currently have VMware Vms and want to migrate our VMs to proxmox. What is the best way to achieve this?
  18. F

    Start Ceph with Single Node to later create Cluster with 3 nodes

    I'm not very used to Proxmox... But meeting the demands of my customers stating to undestanding it a bit. And I'm facing a problem that is almost like a chiken or egg matter. I will mention a hypothetical scenario here, but this is one that is very close to what I'm frequently seen on...
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    Convert VM on ZFS to Vmware

    Hi, This is my first post on this board. Please be nice to me. :) I have a single Proxmox server in my homelab with zfs. I want to convert a VM to VMware as a test. For ZFS I'm not sure which VM disk I need to convert. find / | grep vm-101-disk-0 - outputs...