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    Moving my homelab from vmware (vsphere8) to xcp ng

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    • utopianfishU Offline
      utopianfish
      last edited by utopianfish

      Hello

      been running a homelab for many years working my way thru the various versions of vmware.. Currently had 2 Hp Elitedesk g5 sff desktops acting as hosts with 64gb memory and both local ssd and TrueNAs shared storage for the dozen or so VMs i have.. I have separate physical elitedesk running win 2025 which had Veeam for VM backup and restores.. All had been working pretty well but decided with Broadcom doing nobody any favours it was time to look elsewhere.. hence the switch to xcp ng. So moved all my vms to one host and decied to take the plunge and setup the other host with v 83 as a test bed and try importing some vms.. checking out the networking .. backups etc.
      So a couple of weeks in now and have all my Vms across up n running nicely.. guest tools installed.. nfs remote setup to my veeam box on a shared folder with a dedicated interface /nic for the backups on a 1GB conenction....have a 10 gb direct link now to TrueNAs for shared storage. I'm going to let this bed in for now but i suspect that for me its bye bye to vmware. Once i'm happy i will get my now powered off vmware host back up with xcp ng installed and added to my pool to give me my resilience back.... and then give vmotion between the host a go

      All in all a great product so far. Many Thanks

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      • olivierlambertO Offline
        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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        Thank you very much for your feedback! I will make sure to pass the kind words to the entire team 🙂

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        • utopianfishU Offline
          utopianfish @olivierlambert
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          @olivierlambert

          https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-replication-f2/xcp-ng-support-t93030-120.html?sid=3ce77d81b520263d9e1ff7eaff52cfb7

          Is there any approx date at all when this might be generally available.. if i could get my veeam setup talking to xcp ng then that would be wonderful... ( i know its possible via veaam agent etc) but at a hypervisor lever would just be great...

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          • olivierlambertO Offline
            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
            last edited by olivierlambert

            Hi,

            Since Vates doesn't develop VEEAM, I don't see how I could answer that question 🤔

            A first closed beta started since yesterday. If you want to have your answer, you have to ask them 🙂

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              @olivierlambert said in Moving my homelab from vmware (vsphere8) to xcp ng:

              Hi,

              Since Vates doesn't develop VEEAM, I don't see how I could answer that question 🤔

              A first closed beta started since yesterday. If you want to have your answer, you have to ask them 🙂

              Glad to see strong movement with the Veeam team. @olivierlambert I know you are limiting beta testing to internal at them moment. But if you do need further testing from the community I would like to sign up.

              keep up the hard work Vates team you doing great work.

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              • olivierlambertO Offline
                olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                last edited by olivierlambert

                Again, I'm not VEEAM, I'm not limiting anything. I'm complying with what VEEAM is asking 🙂 Ask them to signup, they will add you!

                edit: to be clear, there's 0 Vates code in the VEEAM support, it's all in VEEAM hands.

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                • utopianfishU Offline
                  utopianfish @olivierlambert
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                  @olivierlambert

                  Thanks for that..its great it appears to be moving forward...

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                  • olivierlambertO Offline
                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                    Yes, even if there no code, there's a lot of pushing on our end to make it happen on their side 🙂

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