Educational Episodes: Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

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How does it work? Being triggered, the Node Fairness service determines the current workload on the cluster hosts. If needed, it automatically migrates VMs to the less loaded host. After the start, the cluster service checks the host for two factors: If the average host CPU load exceeds the tolerated threshold If the average host memory utilization is higher than the tolerated threshold In case either of these criteria is met, the VM gets live migrated to the less loaded host. Neither guest system nor services do experience any downtime.

Moving to Proxmox VE but don’t want to leave your Hyper V VMs behind? With PowerShell, you can easily export your VMs, transfer, and convert them to the right format.

Microsoft has officially phased out the free version of Hyper V with Windows Server 2025. This change marks a major shift for IT pros and organizations that rely on cost-effective virtualization. What does this mean for your infrastructure and budget?

NIC teaming in ESXi increases vSwitch bandwidth and provides load balancing during network or hardware failures. If the load-balancing policy does not match the network equipment, connectivity issues may occur, but they can be resolved through the ESXi console or out-of-band management.

As the title is speaking for itself, it is quite clear that today, I am going to discuss various methods to open and close firewall ports on ESXi hosts. It is useless to consider whether configuring firewall rules is harmful or not since every admin once in a while meets the necessity of fine-tuning network to distribute access rights. So, you ought to know all the tools at your disposal one way or another.

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Every admin knows a few tricks to find a short way when testing your VMs. Some of them are neat, and some aren’t, such as snapshots. Disk Mode in VMware ESXI allows you to replace this technology with a safe alternative!

Choosing the right backup solution for Proxmox VE? Should you stick with Proxmox Backup Server or go with Veeam? We compare both options in terms of features, performance, ease of use, and cost in our latest article to help you decide.