Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Organizations are increasingly moving away from traditional VMware‑plus‑SAN architectures and adopting open‑source alternatives such as Proxmox VE with Ceph. In this talk, I share our real‑world migration journey, covering not only the move from VMware/SAN to a Proxmox/Ceph platform but also our transition from a VM‑based network file‑sharing cluster (OpenAFS/NFS) to CephFS backed by SMB. I will discuss the technical challenges we encountered, the architectural decisions behind our new virtualization and storage stack, and the strategies we used to move production workloads with minimal disruption.
Slides: ceph.io/assets/pdfs/events/2026/ceph-days-london/from-vmware-and-san-to-proxmox-and-ceph.pdf
Organizations are increasingly moving away from traditional VMware‑plus‑SAN architectures and adopting open‑source alternatives such as Proxmox VE with Ceph. In this talk, I share our real‑world migration journey, covering not only the move from VMware/SAN to a Proxmox/Ceph platform but also our transition from a VM‑based network file‑sharing cluster (OpenAFS/NFS) to CephFS backed by SMB. I will discuss the technical challenges we encountered, the architectural decisions behind our new virtualization and storage stack, and the strategies we used to move production workloads with minimal disruption.
Slides: ceph.io/assets/pdfs/events/2026/ceph-days-london/from-vmware-and-san-to-proxmox-and-ceph.pdf
