Best Way to Get Started.

[dguaraldi]

Sorry if this is the Wrong Forum,
What is the best way to get started with Proxmox? With the introduction of PDM and Broadcom's continuous arrogance, I am looking to replace my current VMware infrastructure. My Current Licensing is up in 2 years, and I wish to start the investigations now.

I have a decent size deployment, and we do have a Dev Ops environment that's reliant on Virtualization so because of this, I would like to speak to someone at Proxmox to get a better understanding of the Hits and Misses compared to VMware.

I am not looking to engage a VAR at this point (unless I have to) and wanted to have a meeting directly with Proxmox themselves.
Is this possible?
I did E-mail Sales directly but have not heard from them as of yet.

Any Assistance and personal experience is very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Sviat]

Hi,

you probably need to start from deploying PVE on your test environment.
In general it's full functional VMware replacement with many things that you need to see on your own.
It's very flexible and some workflow is different comparing to VMware.
Just start with test and you will find the answers or at least have a specific questions.

 

[Johannes S]

I recommend to ask a Proxmox partner in your region how they can help you in your migration efforts. The list is on the website:
https://www.proxmox.com/en/partners...ner-type-filter/partner-type/reseller-partner

Regarding a PoC and whether it will be suitable or not highly depends on your workloads and constraints. For example if you need to renew your hardware at the same time it would make sense to invest in hardware which would allow to use Proxmox Ceph integration, to have a hyper-converged-infrastructure. If on the other hand you have existing storage (like a fibre-attached SAN) or compute hardware it's propably more economical to reuse it but then you need to be aware of possible caveats.

To start with: Can you describe your current VMWare setup (nodes, storage, network) and which workloads you are running on it (number of vms, applications etc)?