#virtualization
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Blog posts
Proxmox VE vs VMware ESXi: A Practical Comparison for Admins Considering the Switch
VMware's licensing changes have a lot of admins looking at Proxmox VE. Here's an honest architecture and cost comparison for ESXi admins, plus a real walkthrough of importing a VM with the built-in Import Wizard so you can test it yourself.
How to Migrate VMs Between Separate Proxmox VE Clusters (Remote Migration)
Learn how to use qm remote-migrate and pct remote-migrate to move VMs and LXC containers directly between two independent Proxmox VE clusters, no shared storage or cluster merge required, just an API token, a certificate fingerprint, and a few CLI flags.
CPU Pinning and NUMA Tuning in Proxmox VE: A Practical Guide to vCPU Affinity and Topology
Map your host's NUMA topology, pin vCPUs to physical cores with affinity, and bind VM memory to the right NUMA node — a hands-on guide to deterministic, low-latency performance tuning in Proxmox VE.
How to Build Cloud-Init VM Templates in Proxmox VE for Fast, Automated Deployments
Stop installing operating systems by hand. Learn how to turn a cloud image into a reusable Proxmox VE template with cloud-init, then clone fully configured VMs in seconds with automatic hostname, network, and SSH key provisioning.
How to Install Proxmox VE: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
New to Proxmox? This step-by-step guide covers everything from downloading the ISO to logging into the web interface for the first time, including the BIOS settings and USB-writing mistakes that trip up beginners.
How to Live Migrate a Virtual Machine Between Nodes in a Proxmox VE Cluster
Learn how live migration works in Proxmox VE, what your cluster needs before it will work, and how to move running VMs between nodes from the web UI and CLI without downtime.
How to Create Your First Virtual Machine in Proxmox VE (Step-by-Step Guide)
Never created a VM before? This step-by-step Proxmox VE tutorial walks you through the Create VM wizard tab by tab, explains every setting in plain English, and gets you from a blank ISO upload to a running virtual machine.
Enabling SR-IOV for Network Interface Cards in Proxmox VE 9: A Complete Configuration Guide
A practical, end-to-end guide to enabling SR-IOV on Proxmox VE 9: BIOS and IOMMU prerequisites, creating and persisting Virtual Functions, and assigning them to VMs for near-native network performance.
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