Migrating From VMware to Proxmox and What to Do About Your Storage
TrueNAS, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
TrueNAS explains how to map VMware datastores to Proxmox storage types when migrating, with a pilot test plan.
TrueNAS argues storage is where VMware-to-Proxmox migrations often surprise teams, since each VMware datastore maps to several Proxmox options with different snapshot, HA, and recovery behavior.
It advises matching each workload to a Proxmox storage type, planning the copy window, and testing on a pilot cluster.
Options covered include vendor plugins, shared LVM on iSCSI or Fibre Channel, NFS, ZFS over iSCSI, Ceph, and local storage, noting Proxmox cannot run VMs directly from VMFS and HA needs shared storage or Ceph.
The post includes a copy-time formula and vendor questions, and promotes the TrueNAS Proxmox VE storage plugin for TrueNAS 25.10 or later.