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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 β€” 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.

26th August 2026 Β· 20 min Β· 4257 words Β· Damien Dye

What Renting Your Technology Costs

Once moving supplier is hard, the costs change shape. The price follows your exit cost. Profit is declared in one country and earned in another. The law follows who owns the company, not where the building stands. Part 2 of 8, in plain language.

25th August 2026 Β· 7 min Β· 1386 words Β· Damien Dye
One KVM kernel module beneath five different management stacks

Proxmox VE Is Not a Hypervisor β€” KVM Is, and You Are Already Running It

β€œIs Proxmox enterprise grade?” is a question about the hypervisor, and Proxmox VE does not contain one. The hypervisor is KVM β€” the same kernel module underneath EC2, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Nutanix AHV and OpenShift Virtualisation. What Proxmox really maintains, why the type 1 argument is aimed at the wrong line, and what the shared foundation does not buy you.

12th August 2026 Β· 26 min Β· 5483 words Β· Damien Dye