Proxmox in enterprice environments with shared fc storage

[bbgeek17]

@rbremer, another AI-generated driver... They've been coming in droves lately. It even modifies the PVE source files!

The problem with most AI-generated integrations is that they sound convincing, are thoroughly documented, and are subtly broken in so many different ways.

Sorry to rain on the parade... this driver has several issues in failure modes.

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[TheBigOne]

At some point you end up with the question whether you really want any potential customer who gets fed up with vmware. Like you don't want customers who take resources due to not having competent admins on their own and thus are filing tickets for every trivial thing (like doing updates because it's oh so hard to do it on your own) at some point you won't get much return of investment for replicating any vmware feature just people don't want to learn the differences between PVE and vsphere.
Please take in mind, that this
- is just my personal opinion
- I'm just a community member, not part of Proxmox staff
- don't know anything about their business and wishes of their enterprise customers


But while I can understand why people misses stuff like backups to s3, snapshots on SAN storage, some vcenter like managment software for multiple clusters and 24/7 support ( all there now, well done Proxmox Team!) etc. pp. I don't think that vmfs is really that important as many people assume. After all having a filesystem as another layer between storage and hypervisor also comes with tradeoffs in terms of performance, complexity etc pp.

It’s not just a matter of "learning the differences." Snapshots are a critical feature in any enterprise environment. Having to reserve up to four times more space on LVM datastores represents a fundamental change in storage configuration. It requires meticulous VM placement planning just to ensure there's enough headroom for multiple snapshots on a given volume. So its not just plug and play when you prefer a stable infrastructure.

In fact, I now have to write a custom placement module just to prevent datastores from running out of space, simply because snapshots are thick-provisioned too. Of course, a vendor can just sell software and say, "Not my circus, not my monkeys—have fun." But if he will ever compete with VMware is questionable then.

It’s also quite ironic to read comments lecturing people on what makes a "competent admin." Coming from a consulting background, I’ve seen countless companies, admin teams, and datacenter architectures. Infrastructure teams are almost always understaffed, yet highly skilled. Dismissing them as "too lazy" to redesign their entire datacenter and rewrite their IaC code is a gross oversimplification.

Just my personal opinion off topic

But overall I got the information from the community and I' am also happy with the answers in a very short time. Broadcom would need a week to answer