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VMware Exit Series

Understand what changes, feature by feature

Leaving VMware is not a matter of replacing one feature list with another. This collection examines the mechanisms that actually shape operations: placement, migration, high availability, storage, networking and disaster recovery.

In architecture, a feature should never be compared in isolation. It must be compared in its operating context.

The journey

2 published episodes · 4 coming soon

No artificial schedule: each episode is published only after technical validation.

  1. Episode #1Published16 min read

    Proxmox CRS: the new DRS for automatic cluster balancing?

    Proxmox VE 9.2 brings dynamic balancing to CRS. Understand basic, static-load and dynamic-load modes, HA migrations, limits and how it compares with VMware DRS.

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  2. Episode #2Published17 min read

    VMware → Proxmox: can Live Migration replace vMotion?

    Can Proxmox VE replace VMware vMotion? Live Migration, storage, CPU compatibility and the limits to validate before production.

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  3. 3
    Episode #3Coming soon

    HA and restart after failure

    Distinguish planned maintenance, sudden failure, fencing and actual recovery capacity.

  4. 4
    Episode #4Coming soon

    vSAN, Ceph and distributed storage

    Compare failure domains, replication, performance and day-to-day operations.

  5. 5
    Episode #5Coming soon

    Distributed Switch and SDN networking

    Rebuild network consistency, VLANs, policies and observability after migration.

  6. 6
    Episode #6Coming soon

    SRM, replication and disaster recovery

    Rebuild recovery orchestration, application dependencies and failover testing.