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Building PHIF: Modular Hypervisor Integrations, Storage-Native Mobility, and a VMware Migration Path That Doesn’t Depend on VDDK
Project source: PureStorage-OpenConnect/pure-hypervisor-integration-framework on GitHub For most of the last two decades, enterprise virtualization had a fairly predictable center of gravity: VMware. Storage vendors built deep integrations with vSphere. Backup platforms built around VMware APIs. Migration products commonly approached VMware as a source by reading its virtual disks and moving those blocks somewhere else. That…
Outlook Style Google Calendar Notifier
So I moved to a GSuite company. What did I get myself into? I can deal with the browser based apps. That’s fine. It’s the calendar notifications. I don’t see them. I don’t hear them. They are so unobtrusive I miss meetings. I need my old Outlook popup windows. I am old. I admit it.…
WiFi Art
A while ago I saw this project from rootkid called Spectrum Slit https://rootkid.me/works/spectrum-slit. I thought it was really cool. I showed it to a bunch people because I really liked the idea. Now if you know me or have read any of my drivel here you know I can’t leave things alone when I see…
Inside Proxmox’s LVM Snapshot Chains
For years, virtualization admins have mentally separated storage into a few neat buckets: Storage Type Snapshot Method qcow2 on filesystem qcow2 backing chains/internal snapshots ZFS Native CoW snapshots VMware VMFS Delta VMDK chains Then Proxmox decided to make things weird. Recently I started digging into Proxmox’s experimental snapshot-as-volume-chain functionality for LVM storage and quickly realized…
Your Snapshots Aren’t the Problem. Your Restore Process Is.
I built a platform for restoring Proxmox VMs from Pure Storage snapshots. The storage part was easy. Fixing the workflow was the real engineering. TLDR: GitHub – PureStorage-OpenConnect/proxmox-pure-snap-restore: A utility to allow restoring Proxmox LVM based VMs from FlashArrary snapshots · GitHub There’s a familiar enterprise fairy tale: “We have snapshots.” Everyone nods. Risk has…
So you want to restore a Proxmox VM from an array snapshot?
So you’ve been using array based snapshots for your “backups” on your KVM based cloud? Don’t lie I know you’ve been doing it. Your DR plan involves some shoestring and bubble gum. Maybe some duct tape? I know I’ve done it too. Everything untested just have the data somewhere and some hope that you can…
lvm and xcopy
Does anyone else remember when XCOPY via VAAI was released on vSphere? How cool it was to offload the copy of a VM to the array. It only got cooler as the storage vendors figured out how to not actually need to copy the data but just point to the data. Clones went from having…
proxtop
I missed having esxtop like metrics on proxmox. I found kvmtop (https://github.com/cha87de/kvmtop) so I forked it and had some AI fix it up for proxmox. Take a look here: https://github.com/khensler/proxtop
Automated Pure vVOLs Migration From vSphere to Proxmom
Ok. So last one on this for a while. Go read this one first if you haven’t: https://vskeeball.com/2026/01/23/pure-vvols-migrations-from-vsphere-to-proxmox/. I said at the end of the last post I said I had a tool for this. Well here you go: https://github.com/PureStorage-OpenConnect/proxmox-vvol-migrator This tool gets installed on a Linux machine and hosts a web interface to do…
Proxmox Multipathing Storage Plugins
For those of us who have been around long enough multipathing in VMware environments has just been a thing that has worked. FC or iSCSI you knew what you had to do. iSCSI needs port binding and multiple initiator IPs. FC needs multiple HBAs and paths. It just became a way of life to configure…
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