Translating my VMWare environment

[jhdore]

Hi all,

Jumping ship from VMware Enterprise in a few months. Are there any useful resources on how I might go about translating my VSphere environment in to something similar for Proxmox? I'm less concerned with the virtual machines themselves as there is a decent tool for this already, but I want to create as similar a storage and networking environment as possible.

At the moment, I'm still in the development stage so I have three older servers to play with connected to the same switching infrastructure, and able to see our current iSCSI VMWare storage (2x Dell Powerstore 500T with metro volumes).

Things I'd like to get my head round fastest are -

• Networking: I provide about two dozen vlans to my VSphere estate for five tenant orgs, so need to replicate the same, what am I looking at setting up? We don't use VMWare Distributed switches, just standard.
• Is iSCSI my best option? I can present storage as NVMe-over-TCP or NFS too. What am, I looking at in order to set up iSCSI initially?

Many thanks!
J

 

[LnxBil]

Is iSCSI my best option? I can present storage as NVMe-over-TCP or NFS too. What am, I looking at in order to set up iSCSI initially?

Blockstorage has its limitations at the moment without vendor support (which you don't have with PowerStore), so no thin provisioning and no snapshots. With NFS, this is another story.

Networking: I provide about two dozen vlans to my VSphere estate for five tenant orgs, so need to replicate the same, what am I looking at setting up? We don't use VMWare Distributed switches, just standard.

As far as I understand it, OpenVSwitch is similar to VMware distributed switches, if you want to look into that. Without that, you just define the VLAN setting on your VM or use SDN.