Ran Proxmox for years before switching the homelab to esxi. Switching back has been in the cards for a while now. Not quite as polished, but wholly sufficient.
In my mind Proxmox is more polished, not the UI itself necessarily, but it has built in (and good) backups, container support, built in ZFS, BTRFS, ZFS over iSCSI, GlusterFS, CephFS, etc...
You can also do a cluster with live failover without needing any third party like vCenter.
It also is just running on Debian and using KVM and LXC under the hood so you can easily interact with things via scripts or other automation.
I used to use ESXi and it felt very limited, vCenter added more but running that was absolutely ridiculous in system requirements, and it was slow as molasses.
You can also do a cluster with live failover without needing any third party like vCenter.
It also is just running on Debian and using KVM and LXC under the hood so you can easily interact with things via scripts or other automation.
I used to use ESXi and it felt very limited, vCenter added more but running that was absolutely ridiculous in system requirements, and it was slow as molasses.