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Running servers on virtual machines provides you with a list of advantages such as scalability, rational resource usage, high availability, load balancing, convenient management, data protection features, etc. For this reason, you may want to migrate some of your physical servers to virtual machines. This process is also known as physical to virtual conversion, and referred to by the acronym P2V.

VMware ESXi is a type-1 hypervisor in the VMware vSphere ecosystem used for hardware virtualization and running virtual machines. It is a top-grade virtualization solution widely used by organizations and in-home labs. After Broadcom acquired VMware, users started migrating from VMware ESXi/vSphere to Proxmox VE, an open-source and free virtualization solution. This post covers the Proxmox vs ESXi comparison to help you determine which virtualization solution better meets your needs.