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Is anyone running HPE VM Essentials?? I see there is an HP hardware requirement. Is this 100%, or can I get away with running it on my Dell hardware??

It looks like a comparable solution to my VMware Essentials, but other than the documentation from HP, I don’t know that much about it.

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Pretty sure the HPE VM Essentials is pre-loaded with HPE drivers and add-ons. You might want to check out the Dell-specific downloads.

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HPE VM Essentials is a virtualization platform developed by HPE in partnership with Morpheus Data. It is not strictly tied to HPE hardware, but it is optimized for and officially supported on HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers.

It uses KVM (like many others) under the hood with Ubuntu as the base.

It’s not strictly a replacement for ESXi, but can compliment it.

If you’re looking for alternatives, I’ll suggest Proxmox.

Small number of officially supported Dell devices here

HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Compatibility Matrix

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@Rod-IT Thanks for that explanation, that was helpful. Do most users pay for ProxMox support, or do most users just DIY ProxMox?

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I can’t speak for ‘most’ but I was providing you an option.

I have used PVE for a number of years without too many issues, some things work like VMware, others like Hyper-V, feel free to ask any specific questions up front if it helps.

FYI, I have and still do, run multiple nested hypervisors.

What is making you look at HPE VM Essentials primarily?

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I am just looking at what all of my options are. I know the ProxMox is out there, and has some limitations, I also know HPE has an Enterprise Virtualization platform, and then there is Nutanix, which requires proprietary hardware. So when I came across an article for HPE VM Essentials as a replacement for VMware, I got curious. But this does not seem to be the case, which is exactly why I inquired about it.

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HPE VM is still very early days, it’s only been in the wild a number of months, officially.

Perhaps you can list your limitations and I can try and confirm either way.

And it’s good to do so, you also have Hyper-V (not my favourite), KVM, oVirt, XCP-NG among a plethora of others.

In case you are interested, 2GuysTek has a review on each of these from a VMware users perspective.

(3305) Exploring Proxmox from a VMware User’s Perspective - YouTube

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