This is a multi-part blog that details the steps that I took to migrate a vSphere VM that runs via iSCSI from a Synology NAS to Proxmox VE via iSCSI as well. As an avid homelabber and home automation enthusiast, I read many recommendations for this FLOSS hypervisor and was eager to see how I could augment my HomeAssistant installation with hypervisor management.

But there was quite a learning curve I wasn’t expecting: VMware vSphere has been all I’ve known about virtualization for the last 20 years, and while migrating to Proxmox VE, I quickly saw why vSphere’s simplicity and power has been underappreciated and undervalued by many for years.