Tag: Migration

XCP-ng version: 8.3 | VMware: Generic (ESXi/vSphere) This post is a companion reference to the video. Post corrections or additions below. If you are looking for my training & tutorials you can find that here Why This Guide Exists Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware changed the economics of virtualization overnight. Perpetual licenses are gone, pricing has shifted to subscription bundles, and a lot of shops that were happy running vSphere for years are now evaluating their optio...

A real-world production migration from DigitalOcean to Hetzner dedicated, handling 248 GB of MySQL data across 30 databases, 34 Nginx sites, GitLab EE, Neo4j, and live mobile app traffic — with zero downtime.

Crack, splash, boom! In 2024, the VMware ecosystem endured a seismic shift. Broadcom acquired VMware and quickly introduced a controversial change in its pricing model — shifting from a vRAM-based system to one centered on per physical core (pCore) licensing — and shaking the veritable ground users stood upon. What once allowed customers to pay for […]

Datadog cut off our observability overnight. We migrated to an open Grafana stack in 48 hours. Here’s why vendor lock-in is fading in an AI-native world.

The Challenge: When Granularity Is Your Only Option We were dealing with a legacy "beast" of a platform: a critical and systemic service running on traditional infrastructure, glued behind a single IP address. This IP hosted hundreds of distinct TCP ports, each representing different customers, prot

We made the switch from AWS-hosted MongoDB Atlas to a self-hosted solution on Hetzner, resulting in a 90% reduction in costs while maintaining performance and reliability.

We saved 76% on our cloud bills while tripling our capacity by migrating to Hetzner from AWS and DigitalOcean. Digital Society is a not-for-profit cooperative helping you get your projects off the ground and realise the value of your data.

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How to migrate from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2 without a spare ZFS server or a boatload of extra disks.

Migrate VMware to Proxmox for free using Veeam Community Edition. The steps are easy and quick for VMware to Proxmox migration