Migrating from ESXi 7 to Proxmox 7
I’ve been using ESXi as my virtualization platform in my homelab for years, 2012 maybe? It’s been a solid, but limited, platform. With Broadcom’s recent purchase, I figured it was time to start exploring more open source solutions for virtualization. I feel it’s only a matter of time before the free tier of ESXi is further limited. I tried XCP-ng a few years ago, but I wasn’t able to get a virtual machine’s network interface into promiscuous mode for whatever reason. So this time, I think I’m going to set up Proxmox. I have 2 enterprise servers, so I want to set up a proxmox “cluster” (a true cluster needs 3 servers, so this will just be 2 servers in a “datacenter” that is my office). I want to be able to experiment with live migrating VMs from 1 host to another. ...