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Broadcom's acquisition of VMware (midwest.social)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Are you sticking with them or looking elsewhere? At work, I am not sure about recommending anything besides vSphere and Hyper-V since I haven't used any other solution.

I have been looking at other solutions for my lab and was wondering what other professionals were turning to at work and home.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We run vmware, hyper-v and proxmox clusters.
Proxmox is much more similar to vmware then hyper-v. And due to the odd way hyper-v runs storage (smb to a single host that "own" the fiber channel san) proxmox have better performance since it like vmware can use the san directly.
Hyper-v do seem to require a lot more hand holding then vmware and proxmox.
The one thing proxmox lack is proper support from veeam, so we run proxmox backup server for those clusters.
Also since both vmware and prox can do nfs storage. And proxmox can boot a vmdk file, migration is easy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How has your experience been with proxmox backup?

I've been using Veeam for a very long time and have looked around for other products to do our backup but Veeam is just so good that I haven't found anything that I want. I have quite a few Oracle database servers I'd have to run and back up, and it doesn't appear that proxmox backup does any sort of application processing for Oracle, so I'd likely have to find a separate solution for the databases.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Pbs is very good at what it does. Deduplicaton is great. You can restore images or files, Easier then veeams file restore appliance imho. Live restore works great. And a user on pve can not delete the backups if you set it up right. You can easily replicate the datastore to a offsite. The backups are very fast for running vm's with qemu' dirty block tracking.

But...
There is no application aware in pbs itself. You need to hook into qemu-guest-agent fsfreeze if you want to prepare oracle for backups. Can find scripts on github.
And there is no DR replication that uses the dirty block tracking to do a short replication to a ready vm. I have scripted a simple restore after backup to have a dr vm ready to start but it is not compareable to veeam dr replication. This is on proxmox roadmap tho, so hopefully soon.