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There are probably some of us still sitting on free ESXi hosts, but as I've gotten off mine to Proxmox ive been pretty pleased so far. Leave ESXi, it was a great way to learn but Proxmox is more better.

Here is the one big trick I learned: if using the native import tool, shutdown the source VM and delete all the snapshots! Each snapshot adds an exponential slowdown due to the crappy API. If importing windows, remove the VMWare Guest Tools first. That seems to make the import process work pretty well. Linux and FreeBSD don't seem to care but Windows sure does.

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this post was submitted on 27 May 2025

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