Now that #Vmware is dead, what is your «plan B» for on prem #virtualization ?
At work, I don’t think we can’t afford a migration to #proxmox : storage support is a mess and Ceph is probably a no-go.
On prem #hyperv is slowly going down the hill as Microsoft is pushing everyone to Azure.
Before the licencing change we had to pay about 14K€/year for support.
Now we would have to pay ~180K€/year.
@patpro At small scale we have been running Proxmox with storage on multipath iSCSI. What kind of storage mess are you seeing breaking down at larger scale? Support for specific storage controller hardware?
@AngryAnt AFAIK iSCSI will not let you use snapshots (as per https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage).
Anyway the problem is not just the hypervisor. It’s also the infrastructure (2 x 500 TB, 1 year old, NVMe storage for a start) and other important pieces like a brand new Veeam deployment, a BCP built on top of Vsphere + the 2 replicating storage above, etc.
@patpro Ah yes no snapshots on pure iSCSI - that requires zfs over iSCSI. I don't follow the rest of the message though - other aspects unsupported under Proxmox?
@AngryAnt well, we need snapshots, so we would have to use ceph, so we would have to buy a totally different storage. And veeam can't backup proxmox VMs, so we would have to ditch our very efficient backup solution and built a not so capable one for proxmox.
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