Rocket Surgeon
I love to hear this. I admit tho, I thought Proxmox would explode after VMware imploded. Proxmox did not just step into the gap left by VMware. A very large portion of IT has still never heard of Proxmox and could not tell you what its for, while they all have some passing understanding of what VMware is.
I was hoping for a sudden swell where companies were moving ESXi > PVE en masse … and hiring engineers at high dollars. I don’t see that. :[
Thank you so much. I was headed there. Doc caught me 2 years ago, gave me the big warning. Cut back the booze, dropped 50 pounds, started eating fiber. Now I’m just a stress case, but a darn healthy one.
I’m not scrambling to get a different job. I’m well paid, and good luck finding someone to do my job, so the boss takes some crap back from me. Plus, I don’t think we can do more layoffs and stay in biz. But the ceo does make bold architecture decisions.
Lemmy is awesome. I act like a jerk and meet people regardless.
Well met, friend.
Sure. Everything you said makes sense.
They laid off my entire infra department. My boss. The juniors.
I’m all that’s left. So, ya see …
(But you’re right, I’m being silly. I’ll leave it there. Remind me how silly I am next time something doesn’t work. Thx.)
You added this bit about your guesses after my first reply.
Surely you understand how hollow and weird that sounds? You guessing about the environments that I manage? Why would you do that? Strange behavior.
I’m sorry. Perhaps we have a language barrier.
If you have a specific question, please ask. I’ll either try to answer it or point you at the correct answer source.
This is good to know!
If you lack the skill to make such claims, then keep company with your own doubts.
I can build anything.
Anything.
Mmm. I replied to the wrong post.
Yes, support can come in handy.
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.
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.
Broadcom stole my career. Fukem.
I’ve put my bets on Proxmox.
The PVE product needs to be ground-up replaced, but if it gets popular, they will do that.
PBS is the future. I am on board.
This is the latest from the staff.
My interpretation is that this issue will affect setups with slower disks and larger backups.
The recommendation to add an SSD special vdev is an interesting aside. Like, are they actually pushing that now? That’s some ZFS rocket surgery. (I like ZFS.)
I’m also concerned. This appears to be serious. I’ve frozen upgrades as well.
Let me explain the ‘pro’ comment. I’m active on the official forum. Most of the ‘pros’ there don’t use proxmox_backup_client. People I respect do not use that tool, probably each for their own reasons.
My own issue with PBS support for physical servers is that full recovery is DIY. You have to format disks and stand up at least a temp OS in order to wipe and start over.
I think I’ve scaled out PBS pretty far. My biggest datastores are 14 TB. That’s about 85 VMs. I use a multi-layer PBS setup for Backup and Sync at 5 geographic locations. A couple sites have hardware syncing to virtual, which in turn does site-to-site. I’m using PBS site-to-site sync to support a colo migration.
PBS is a great tool in rapid development. During the time I’ve used it, they introduced fleecing and all its many issues. There are more changes coming. As admins, we are supporting a moving target.
I believe the point is that it doesn’t do a snapshot stun or run out of a delta disk. Its a different technology. I know it does use qm snapshot. The tech docs I’ve read don’t quite fill in the details for me either. Much of the point of PBS architecture was to avoid that stun.
The proxmox_backup_client is not my bag. I’m glad it’s found a user. Most pros I know don’t touch it.
Nano is the one true fork.
Those editors are toys. Use something with real power. Use nano.
For anybody considering using the Proxmox ESXi Import Wizard, you should watch this video.
Personally, I don’t watch tech videos. Give me the documentation and let me go. Well, the folks at Proxmox made the unusual decision of releasing the full and complete directions on using the Import Tool via this video. I don’t know of any other official source where you get the full intricate details of an optimal virtual machine import and conversion to VirtIO.
Ya, it sux. Watch the video anyway.
Um … that thing about vmdk and qcow being the same … that’s … not correct. I’ve never heard anyone say anything like that before. Its so wild that I can’t even find a link to refute it.
But anyway, to convert VMDK and QCOW2, you need qemu-utils. Run this …
qemu-img convert
Perhaps this comment most addresses what was on my mind. I see comments from admins, education, small biz, homelabbers (homelabbers rule!).
There are only a couple folks that appear to be in my tier (50 + hosts). And that’s because there arent a lot of us on proxmox.
I think you’re right. Big enterprise moves slow. The VMwsre implosion is just now hitting corporate budgets.
Thanks for your perspective, friend.