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One NFS export mounted by both vCenter and Proxmox, so a VMDK crosses the network once instead of twice

VMware to Proxmox with Ansible — Build the Shells Before You Move a Byte

Reading a vSphere estate with the dynamic inventory, mirroring its VLANs into Proxmox SDN, and rebuilding every VM as a diskless shell before a single disk moves. Why every VMware info module hides the one field the migration needs, why vlan_id is three different types, and why one NFS export mounted twice turns the cutover into a local read.

Three Proxmox nodes wired in a triangle mesh with direct cables and no switch

A Switchless Proxmox Mesh with SDN OpenFabric — Ceph and Client Networks Without a 100G Switch

Three Proxmox nodes wired directly to each other in a triangle, with OpenFabric routing over the mesh and Ceph plus VXLAN client networks riding on top. Built entirely in the web interface, and honest about where the design stops scaling.