I've mixed feelings on this. One side I love it's free, the annual pricing seems reasonable to what it was. On the other, i've been so burned by their pricing for everything else with clients that i'm reticent to be thankful.
I suppose it's a step in the right direction, bringing back ESXI for homelab users would be a good step too.
Yeah. Once the Proxmox team fixed the recent kernel bug that caused migration hangs with Ryzen/EPYC hardware (~20% of migrations just hung), things have been pretty great.
Presently trialling a HA cluster with it, and likely to deploy that to a local data centre in the next few weeks.
I moved the rest of my machines to proxmox as well. I had left one ESXI just for the hell of it but I just can't leave it running even with the free Workstation pro (i'll still use it on my workstations).
> bringing back ESXI for homelab users would be a good step too.
I agree and frankly I think it was smart VMWare had a a free tier for homelab users. It produces new users who can now more easily enter the workforce with ESXi experience they might not otherwise have.
By locking it down and jacking up prices they'll squeeze out more money now, but eventually the market will shift to whatever everyone has the most experience with, which might end up being Proxmox.
I suppose it's a step in the right direction, bringing back ESXI for homelab users would be a good step too.