I’ve been tossing up moving my Zabbix server from a VMWare host to a ProxMox host, and decided that it was time. I’m hoping that by moving the server from VMWare to ProxMox, the disk latency will go down a bit since I’m using a RAID1 array for Zabbix on the ProxMox host rather than emulated disks on VMWare as well as moving to some cheap SSDs.
To do this, I’ve decided to start with a clean CentOS 7 server rather than migrating my CentOS 6 server from VMWare to ProxMox.
While I’m doing the migration, I’ll also upgrade to the latest version of Zabbix.
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