Subj : Re: New Modem/BBS Video
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Fri Mar 01 2024 17:05:58

Hi Kurt,

On 2024-03-01 07:28:00, you wrote to me:

 SW>> Yes, Proxmox also has builtin support for backing up VM's. It does
 SW>> have some limitations though.

 WvV>> Like what?

 KW> I wish I had a bigger environment to run Proxmox in. I'd like to play
 KW> with ZFS/CEPH and the high-availability bits. It looks pretty amazing,
 KW> I've seen videos of people unplugging servers and services taking a
 KW> short hiccup, then continuing on another server in the cluster.

At work I run a little proxmox cluster (not HA), of 2 machines with both 4 VM's running on it. The VM's are all replicated to the other host machines. So if there would be a hardware problem on one machine, they can be started on the other machine. All VM's are backuped to a storage server by proxmox it self. If I wanted to do backup on a file level, it would be easy to do with a little scripting and rsync. But there is no need.

We also have a VMWare esx server, that's backuped by Veeam. It's outsourced, but I do some basic maintenance on both the host and vm's.

So I have a little bit of experience with both. And I don't see the limitations of proxmox compared to the VMWare + Veeam combination? I do know I like proxmox much more, and it's much cheaper if you don't need the support contract. Which you don't because it is rock solid! ;-)


Bye, Wilfred.

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