Instructor-led, 2-days
Day 1 — Strategic Foundations & Platform Evaluation
- Understanding Proxmox in the Enterprise What leaders must know about Proxmox architecture, support models, repositories, and cluster design. “Proxmox VE core architecture vs. VMware vSphere/ESXi infrastructure models”
- Cost, Licensing & ROI Analysis Subscription vs. no-subscription repositories, hardware reuse, Ceph vs. SAN cost modeling.
- Risk & Readiness Assessment Evaluating storage (ZFS, LVM-Thin, NFS, iSCSI), networking (Linux Bridges, VLANs), and cluster quorum risks.
- Migration Strategy Overview Cold vs. warm vs. live-sync migrations; dependency mapping; wave planning. “VMware VM dependency mapping, performance profiling, and migration wave planning”
- Security & Compliance Considerations RBAC, AD integration, firewall layers, certificate management.
Day 2 — Migration Governance, Operations & Organizational Change
- Migration Program Management Runbook creation, change control, downtime planning, rollback governance. “Develop an end-to-end operational runbook… wave sequencing, staff roles…”
- Operationalizing Proxmox HA, Ceph, PBS backups, monitoring, patching, DR strategy.
- Team Skills & Resourcing Required Linux skills, automation (Terraform/Ansible), operational maturity.
- Post-Migration Optimization Performance tuning, HA onboarding, backup onboarding. “Tune CPU pin settings, disk cache modes, and memory settings for optimal execution.”
- Executive Reporting & Go-Live Sign-off KPIs, performance benchmarks, cost savings, risk closure.
