COMING FROM
Coming from Proxmox
Proxmox is the cluster hypervisor people trust. Here is what changes when you move, and what stays the same.
What Proxmox got right
Proxmox VE is battle-tested. KVM/QEMU VMs, LXC containers, ZFS, clustering, PBS backups — it's what serious homelabbers use when they outgrow consumer NAS software. The web UI is functional, the API is complete, and the community is huge.
What changes for you
Run more than one box and a dead one does not take your apps and virtual machines down with it. Rehome starts them on another node, and brings them home when the box is back.
Ask the box what is wrong. Nova reads the box's state and answers in plain words, so you are not clicking through screens to work out which part failed.
Your virtual machines are KVM and your containers are LXC, the same engines used here, so disk images and container root filesystems move over.
When to stay on Proxmox
Be honest: if you're running a production cluster with HA fencing, live migration, and Ceph storage, Proxmox is more mature for that workload. Eight.ly targets homelabs and small deployments — 1-3 nodes where you want NAS + VMs + Docker + AI in one box without running four separate products.
Migration
- Back up your VMs and containers with PBS (or EBS)
- Eight.ly OS detects existing ZFS pools
- Download the Eight.ly OS ISO and install on the same hardware
- Import your VM disks and reconfigure containers from the app catalog