I have a cluster already. The “enterprise” repo is functionally the same as the free one.

It’s ok. It works. The limitations and UX leave a lot to be desired.

I really don’t like the storage aspect. I’m not using ceph or anything like a DAS or SAN so I’m sort of limited to having identical hardware and configs on all nodes. Migrating from one node to another that doesn’t have identical storage naming convention seems to be impossible, and that is very strange to me. I just want to pick a compute and a storage available defined for VMs and for it to simply move from one named storage to another.

Really don’t like that there is no mechanism to live migrate LXC either, needs a reboot of the lxc. Totally fine for small scale home use cases but still very strange to not have the same behavior. A vm is a vm, storage is storage, take the snapshot and find a way to make it happen ffs.

Maybe a bit of this is just because I’m using prosumer/smb grade gear and I don’t have identical nodes hardware wise, but overall it is very strange. Stuff like not allowing watcher node VMs for HA unless you have an even amount of nodes, but why not let me setup two+ watchers? If I’m removing a third node to replace it I would rather have the watcher on standby until I shut it down or put said node on maintenance mode (don’t think this exists for proxmox, but the concept helps trigger loads of automation and things like DRS.)

VMware is so stupidly easy. I just want proxmox to be a bit different. VMware is totally dead to me, but it hasn’t had a ton of real changes or feature adds that I l would ever use in the past ten years. Hard for me to be so forgiving that proxmox has been around for so long and doesn’t live up to the VMware of ~2012 based on my remembrance anyway.