https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/tags/vmware/ Recent content in Vmware on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/ansible/vmware-to-proxmox-ansible/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/ansible/vmware-to-proxmox-ansible/ 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. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/what-renting-costs/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/what-renting-costs/ Part 2 of 8. Once moving supplier is hard, the costs change shape. The price follows how hard it is to leave. Profit gets declared somewhere other than where it was earned. The law that applies follows who owns the company, not where the building stands. And a service can stop for reasons that have nowt to do with you. Plain language, with sources. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/proxmox/kvm-the-hypervisor-inside-proxmox-ve/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/proxmox/kvm-the-hypervisor-inside-proxmox-ve/ "Is Proxmox enterprise grade?" is a question about the hypervisor, and Proxmox VE does not contain one. The hypervisor is KVM, the same kernel module under EC2, Google Cloud, Nutanix AHV and OpenShift Virtualisation. What Proxmox actually maintains, why the type 1 argument aims at the wrong line, and what the shared foundation does not buy you.