I was a VMware admin. I drank the freakin koolaid. Got the certs. I was planning on a career as an architect. Did ok.
Then Broadcom. Fukers.
My boss said screw em, we go Proxmox. So now I live and breathe Proxmox.
PVE is a heap of janky hax, so you gotta get expert real fast.
PBS is cutting edge software that breaks twice a week, so ya gotta get expert real fast.
And now I’m an expert. Especially at PBS. DR. Site-to-site. I can do that shit.
Now that I have this new skillset, where can I use it?
Who’s using Proxmox?
Though all the hardware has changed, I still have my first cluster from 6 years ago. First a single drive on ext4, then three workstations with ZFS mirrors, then 1L compute modules on an iSCSI SAN, back to just a virtual Proxmox server running on a NAS after paring back services (to Docker) and power (from 400W to 60W).
The Forums are pretty baron, we use Proxmox at our University, and we don’t have enough hours to figure everything out. Maybe you could do some good for the people out there
My friend, I’ll hand out discredit where it is due, and Proxmox has a lot of issues … but the Proxmox vendor does a decent job of supporting a free product.
In fact I do devote several hours every week sorting out people’s issues on the vendor’s forum.
But they have real employees … well they are interns and a few really cranky support folks.
And they drag the devs in to respond to stuff regularly.
So they don’t really need my help. But I’m helping.
Dunno who’s using PMox in enterprise, but I’d love to see more uptake. I’m a former VMware employee and I hate what Broadcom did to it.
We use proxmox exclusively at work (mastering company, it underpins our aspera) and since vmware shat the bed a mate’s workplace is cutting over to pm as well (multinational). It be growin’.
I used to use VMware religiously for software testing across several different versions at once. Had a nice stack of VM’s of our corporate software going all the way from win2000 installs to Win11. Then, we we went SaaS so all the different versions became obsolete. Regardless, if I were to do it over, it would definitely be Proxmox now. No way I’d ever willingly support Broadcom.
Recently replaced a small VMware cluster with it after a long testing period. Its working well generally. We have a couple of layers of PBS and the storage backend is varied. Some hardware raid some zfs. No major complaints so far with stability or performance
Please tell me you didn’t switch production to Proxmox without having the proper support for skillset…
Anyway this isn’t the best place for this. Try !sysadmin@lemmy.world
Proxmox in general tends to be pretty solid. They key is to set it up correctly and to run in on proper hardware. My guess is that you didn’t one or both of those.
Hehe. Have you been to a real job? Where real things happen? The mark of a good admin is that they can do anything at all.
Oh, we are gonna switch to 100% Docker now? Ok, I’ll get up to speed on that. Ooops, no now it all goes to Azure. Ok, dust off my Azure certs. Nope, now we are gonna put everything on this gui on top of kvm called proxmox.
Sure, whatever. Let’s just get it done.
