I Ran Proxmox and VMware Side by Side for a Year (What Surprised Me Most)

I spent an entire year running Proxmox and VMware side by side in my home lab, fully expecting VMware to come out on top. VMware had always been my default hypervisor both professionally and personally, but after Broadcom’s changes and the growing friction around hardware support and licensing, I decided to give Proxmox a serious long-term test. In this video, I walk through what surprised me after a year of real-world use. I looked at stability, hardware compatibility, the web interface, centralized management with Proxmox Datacenter Manager, community momentum, backups, storage, containers, …