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!

  • exu@feditown.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’m pretty happy with XCP-ng with their XenOrchestra management interface. XenOrchestra has a free and enterprise version, but you can also compile it from source to get all the enterprise features. I’d recommend this script: https://github.com/ronivay/XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater

    I’d say it’s a slightly more advanced ESXi with vCenter and less confusing UI than Proxmox.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Qemu/virt manager. I’ve been using it and it’s so fast. I still need to get the clipboard sharing working but as of right now it’s the best hypervisor I’ve ever used.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    11·
    8 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
    HA Home Assistant automation software
    ~ High Availability
    LTS Long Term Support software version
    LXC Linux Containers
    ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
    k8s Kubernetes container management package

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  • anamethatisnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago
    • KVM/QEMU/Libvirt/virt-manager on a Debian 12 for minimal installation that allows you to choose backup tools and the like on your own.
    • Proxmox for a mature KVM-based virtualizer with built in tools for backups, clustering, etcetera. Also supports LXC. https://github.com/proxmox
    • Incus for LXC/KVM virtualization - younger solution than Proxmox and more focused on LXC. https://github.com/lxc/incus