I see some of you are using PROXMOX and a couple of you were looking into migrating away from PROXMOX.

I just picked up a used Dell R730xd with 14 of 24 1.2TB drives. RAID60. 128GB RAM.

I have older Dell servers : 1 running my old vmWARE for my BBS, and another running a licensed Server 2012R2 instance. Server will cost way too much to modernize, and vmWARE is no longer 'freeware' and my licensing no longer allows me to upgrade since the software was sold years ago.

I am looking at PROXMOX and was wondering how others like it. I tried TrueNAS, but for some reason the VMs wouldn't work.

Thoughts?

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On 13 Jun 2025, SirRonmit said the following...

I see some of you are using PROXMOX and a couple of you were looking into migrating away from PROXMOX.

I just picked up a used Dell R730xd with 14 of 24 1.2TB drives. RAID60. 128GB RAM.

I just moved from ESXi to Proxmox. I had a couple of hiccups along the way, mostly to do with the hardware I'm running it on (Intel NUC). I would imagine your Dell R730xd would fare quite well with Proxmox.

I have older Dell servers : 1 running my old vmWARE for my BBS, and another running a licensed Server 2012R2 instance.

The cool thing with Proxmox, if you have it running at the same time as ESXi you can directly import your VMWare VMs over to Proxmox.

Overall, quite happy with it. As Paulie pointed out to me, if you don't have a paid subscription, you can run the "post install" script to disable the enterprise repo:

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts?id=post-pve-install


Jay

... As a matter of fact, it IS a banana in my pocket!

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The cool thing with Proxmox, if you have it running at the same time as ESXi you can directly import your VMWare VMs over to Proxmox.

I seriously just found that out on accident. I was like ESXi -- "not found" so I was like, ok, and entered my server (which houses my BBS here) and BAM! I was then able to 'copy' over but of course, hardware being different gave me hiccups .. but it was very neat indeed!

Thanks for the link, I'll run that as well !

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I just picked up a used Dell R730xd with 14 of 24 1.2TB drives. RAID60. 128GB RAM.

I am looking at PROXMOX and was wondering how others like it. I tried TrueNAS, but for some reason the VMs wouldn't work.

I have a r730xd (and a r320 + r330) and run Proxmox on all three. Its a perfect solution IMO and runs really well on the r730xd.

I suggest buying an iDrac license on eBay - only like $20... and you get full BMC management dashboard... its really helpful IMO.

You can get cheap memory, if needed, from cloudninjas.com and HDDs from serverpartdeals.com - all on the cheap. Cloud Ninjas also often has other hardware for the Dell Poweredge platform.

The r730xd is a powerhouse for my needs - and is my main PVE Node; I run a Proxmox cluster w/ my 3 servers...

It can do it all - hardware PCIe passthrough of my RAID card on the r320 - for a TrueNAS SCALE NAS; and I run all my production VM/CTs on the other systems...

I really like the r730 models and think they have a lot of life in them. It sips a bit more power than the 1U Poweredges, but has dual CPUs and more upgrade paths too...



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