{"slug": "xcp-ng", "name": "XCP-ng", "category": "infra", "category_name": "Infrastructure and DevOps", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 5, "warners": 0, "score": 3.226, "rising": 0.35, "first": "2025-11-19", "latest": "2026-08-07", "why": "Before that I was using esxi but migrated all my VMs and hosts to xcp-ng.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Before that I was using esxi but migrated all my VMs and hosts to xcp-ng.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://xcp-ng.org", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["XCP-ng", "xcp-ng"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 787493187, "item_id": 49218324, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218324", "by": "ragequittah", "date": "2026-08-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Most of the stuff I use is free and excellent.", "excerpt": "Most of the stuff I use is free and excellent. Linux, Firefox, libreoffice, xcp-ng, bottles, steam, playnite, opnsense, docker, dockhand, immich, freshrss, obsidian, tailscale, calibre, caddy, docker, pi-hole, signal, audiobookshelf I could probably keep going for a long while. I'm very glad most good software creators I've come across do not have your mindset.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT\u2014and expanding access for free users"}, {"id": 777336305, "item_id": 48583519, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583519", "by": "throw0101a", "date": "2026-06-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "XCP-ng could be an option, or OpenStack.", "excerpt": "> Probably Proxmox. Veeam support is relatively new. As a sysadmin of Proxmox, I do not see how it can scale to 40k VMs. The Proxmox folks themselves have seen \"~24\" nodes in a cluster (theoretical support is higher), so you'd probably need a lot of clusters for 40k: * https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-with-48-nodes.174684/#post-812204 For such a size (and sticking strickly with open source), XCP-ng could be ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"}, {"id": 756930513, "item_id": 47308157, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308157", "by": "ErneX", "date": "2026-03-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Before that I was using esxi but migrated all my VMs and hosts to xcp-ng.", "excerpt": "I run (among many other VMs) TrueNAS on a VM of an xcp-ng host (Supermicro board with a Xeon and ECC ram). Passing a dedicated SAS controller to it. Before that I was using esxi but migrated all my VMs and hosts to xcp-ng. TrueNAS has been pretty good so far, been running this for many years already. I also have another xcp-ng host for other VMs running on a Dell OptiPlex Micro. 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Linux, Firefox, libreoffice, xcp-ng, bottles, steam, playnite, opnsense, docker, dockhand, immich, freshrss, obsidian, tailscale, calibre, caddy, docker, pi-hole, signal, audiobookshelf I could probably keep going for a long while. I'm very glad most good software creators I've come across do not have your mindset.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT\u2014and expanding access for free users"}, {"id": 777336305, "item_id": 48583519, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583519", "by": "throw0101a", "date": "2026-06-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "XCP-ng could be an option, or OpenStack.", "excerpt": "> Probably Proxmox. Veeam support is relatively new. As a sysadmin of Proxmox, I do not see how it can scale to 40k VMs. The Proxmox folks themselves have seen \"~24\" nodes in a cluster (theoretical support is higher), so you'd probably need a lot of clusters for 40k: * https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-with-48-nodes.174684/#post-812204 For such a size (and sticking strickly with open source), XCP-ng could be ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"}, {"id": 756930513, "item_id": 47308157, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308157", "by": "ErneX", "date": "2026-03-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Before that I was using esxi but migrated all my VMs and hosts to xcp-ng.", "excerpt": "I run (among many other VMs) TrueNAS on a VM of an xcp-ng host (Supermicro board with a Xeon and ECC ram). Passing a dedicated SAS controller to it. Before that I was using esxi but migrated all my VMs and hosts to xcp-ng. TrueNAS has been pretty good so far, been running this for many years already. I also have another xcp-ng host for other VMs running on a Dell OptiPlex Micro. OP should configure DNS locally and re", "context": "homelab user", "use_case": "hypervisor", "switched_from": "ESXi", "story": "My Homelab Setup"}, {"id": 756836577, "item_id": 47302286, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302286", "by": "globular-toast", "date": "2026-03-08", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I run all my other stuff on an xcp-ng box", "excerpt": "I'm similar to you[0]. I still run FreeBSD TrueNAS, and it's just a NAS. Although I do run the occasional VM on it as the box is fairly overprovisioned. I run all my other stuff on an xcp-ng box. I'm a little more homelab-y as I do run stuff on a fairly pointless kubernetes cluster, but it's for learning purposes. I really prefer storage just being storage. For security it makes a lot of sense. Stuff on my network ca", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "My Homelab Setup"}, {"id": 735685441, "item_id": 45980340, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980340", "by": "throw0101c", "date": "2025-11-19", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Proxmox (and XCP-ng?) seems to be \"the\" (?) popular alternative to VMware", "excerpt": "Proxmox (and XCP-ng?) seems to be \"the\" (?) popular alternative to VMware after Broadcom's private equity-fuel cash grab. (Perhaps if you're a Microsoft shop you're looking at Hyper-V?)", "context": "", "use_case": "VMware alternative", "switched_from": "", "story": "Proxmox virtual environment 9.1 available"}]}