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HP Microserver Gen 11 and Proxmox Hi, So I’ve been looking online and it seems VMWare have stopped ESXi as of version 9 onwards.  The last version was 8.03U I believe. So this has me thinking…

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  • October 10, 2025 at 7:45 pm #39779
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    Hi,

    So I’ve been looking online and it seems VMWare have stopped ESXi as of version 9 onwards.  The last version was 8.03U I believe.

    So this has me thinking on what to do now considering all my VMs run on ESXi currently.

    It looks like either Hyper-V or Proxmox.  Hyper-V I’ve seen lots of reports of slow/lagging VMs and most seem to reckon using Proxmox as a better hypervisor and then running the various VMs. is Proxmox free? I saw references to pricing on there home page.

    It seems Proxmox isn’t as fussy as ESXi which wanted a hardware raid controller.  You can still fit one but it isn’t a requirement.

    Anyone any experience of Proxmox? is it easy to setup? easy to migrate/move a VM from Esxi to proxmox?  I know vmware has a converter than converts a physical machine to a VM and is there a tool that will convert ESXi VM into Proxmox VM as I don’t want to re-setup all my VMS, I’d sooner just move them across or migrate/convert them automatically.

    Considering getting the Hp Microserver gen 11 as it can taker much more memory than the Gen 10 so means i can hopefully allocate decent memory to the VMs as opposed to min or below min to them like atm.

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    Kev

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    October 10, 2025 at 8:00 pm #39780
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    or maybe use XCP-ng? Just found this one from someone’s comment online, not sure about it, seems after install it comes to a grub menu and you have to press enter, is this every time it boots as I was hoping it would boot up automatically like esxi does now and then set certain VMs to auto start.

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    Kev

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    October 11, 2025 at 7:20 am #39782
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    Since Broadcom took over VMware, they’ve been phasing out free ESXi which is a bummer for you guys.

    No direct experience but Proxmox VE is free and open-source, with optional paid subscriptions for enterprise support. Migration from ESXi is doable and lots of references online.

    HP Microserver Gen11 is compatible with Proxmox and should work well in you case.

    I beleive XCP-ng is another good option, alas booting options and configuration I do not know

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