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With free esxi over, not shocking bit sad, I am now about to move away from a virtualisation platform i’ve used for a quarter of a century.

Never having really tried the alternatives, is there anything that looks and feels like esxi out there?

I don’t have anything exceptional I host, I don’t need production quality for myself but in all seriousness what we run at home end up at work at some point so there’s that aspect too.

Thanks for your input!

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[–] mlaga97@lemmy.mlaga97.space 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

they need to be using shared storage for disks

You can perform a live migration without shared storage with libvirt

[–] vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I should RTFM again... https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/libvirt-clients/virsh.1.en.html has options for virsh migrate such as --copy-storage-all... Not sure how it would work for actual live migrations but I will definitely check it out. Thanks for the hint

[–] mlaga97@lemmy.mlaga97.space 1 points 2 years ago

Pretty darn well. I actually needed to do some maintenance on the server earlier today so I just migrated all of the VMs over to my desktop, did the server maintenance, and then moved the VMs back over to the server, all while live and functioning. Running ping in the background looks like it missed a handful of pings as the switches figured their life out and then was right back where they were; not even long enough for uptime-kuma to notice.