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Not gonna lie, you're the first I've bumped into the year deploying sp infrastructure on vmware at "vROP isn't enough" scale
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how do you get onprem san with meaningful redundancy for less than a quarter of a million dollars though
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Happiness Commando posted:I have 35 TB of active/active storage and I think we paid $100k. Some of it is rotational though. I guess the secret is to not need high performance? One of my clients has five vSAN nodes for $150,000 with similar capacity, all on SSDs. That includes compute and licensing, not just storage. I kind of don't get it?
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YOLOsubmarine posted:It’s also very feature poor as storage, with no zero impact snapshot capabilities, no native replication, no zero space clones, etc...it’s pretty bare bones storage aaaaaaaah I wasn't thinking about this right
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DPU -- placing security decisions right on the network and remote memory/storage card -- is excellent and an extension of the sorts of functionality previously only available to hyperscalers
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Veeam's forums and QA staff largely consisted of men who are now AFK fighting to protect their families and towns, so it was never as bad as you may think.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:Q: Why is this good for VMware customers? We are now committed to a shift to
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Zorak of Michigan posted:Please god let me not find out that support actually could be worse. let me tell you about that time VMware support brought down our entire network
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I'm still not sure how we haven't sued them yet
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DevNull posted:I have worked at VMware for over 16 years. Broadcom quickly came out with with a return to office mandate and a new employment contract that is horrific. We had one of our most senior team members quit with 0 days notice, and a lot of people that are refusing to sign the new contract and are looking for a new job. So expect the virtualization quality to take a hit. Enjoy! thanks for your work, especially on the flings that have made my life substantially easier
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DevNull posted:Thanks. I actually worked on the VNC server/client fling that was release over 10 years ago. I think they pulled it from the site eventually since it wasn't getting updates. I left that team but still used that fling myself. I remember you mentioning you worked with that team, well, many many years ago
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Pile Of Garbage posted:Relevant to the Broadcom buyout of VMware, they're already moving to transition everything to a subscription-based model and as part of that they're killing the perpetual license model for vSphere: https://www.thestack.technology/broadcom-is-killing-off-vmware-perpetual-licences-sns/. I'm a little busy this morning, does this mention whether existing perpetual licenses are under the gun I have expressly avoided moving those under our ELA so that we don't have to accept predatory new terms for those licenses
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I'm really upset that the justice department complaints against the acquisition did not end up surviving political intervention What American consumers are positively served by the acquisition? None, except for a couple giant shareholders. What American businesses are positively served by the acquisition? None.
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Nitrousoxide posted:If it's a really simple project you could even do something as simple as a bash script and cron job that checks a network shared directory for a folder with data needing processing and spins up a docker compose with some env variables when someone drops a new one in there. so that's how new, weirdly architected message queuing systems are born
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largely comes down to whether your business has means and appetite for infrastructure and expanded security payroll imo
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well, at least in azure's case there's a lot of extra value for cloud too. this is the virtualization thread, so we focus a lot on compute and storage infrastructure. Internal, B2B, and C2B IAM on Azure is pretty slick. having your business productivity/collaboration all in one place too is one hell of a value add for doing virt in Azure. it's more than just a pure capital versus operational expenses and labor consideration
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you could use proxmox at home but you won't be learning any skills that are useful for your career imo
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well yeah so use a modern hypervisor there's a free gitlabs tier, put up some teraform and go learn proper cdci
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does.... anyone use proxmox in enterprise, at scale? maybe it's me who is out of touch
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I meant go learn KVM nobody should be learning more VMware rn proxmox in enterprise? ehhhhhhhhhhh sounds like there's one poster who has it for a kinda standalone thing, that's hardly a vote in confidence for any notion that serious businesses use proxmox in robust devops stacks
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can you do azurestack HCI homelab for a good price
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I just don't see a big migration to Hyper-V without a Microsoft vCenter. I absolutely see Microsoft squandering the opportunity to become the virtualization platform of small/medium American businesses by continuing to confound what should be simple interfaces and tools with cloud integrations. Already, 2/3 of what's in Windows Admin Center is functionally nagware to pay for things that SMBs probably aren't ever going to pay for, and it confuses the everliving hell out of the hordes and hordes of general practice IT workers who burn the incense that keeps AA_april2013-gross_FINAL(1)_FINAL DONT REMOVE(1)(1).xls running.
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I'm going to Azurestack HCI but that's because we have the budget for genuine engineers. Half the guys who do IT at my local card shop are just happy to churn through five or six tickets a day and drive to a site to get a laptop deployed without hitting traffic. there's billions upon billions of dollars in the market that serves those dudes, and that's why I continue to insist that, after KVM matured, vmware's core product was actually vCenter.
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SlowBloke posted:Microsoft "vCenter" already exists, it's called System Center Virtual Machine Manager and it's absolute poo poo. yeah vmm doesn't count
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the spyder posted:Yes. Yes we are. I highly recommend exploring alternatives, regardless of the pricing. I dare even say HyperV if you're looking to leverage Datacenter Server 2022/2025 licensing. They force you into VCF licenses or something?
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just did the napkin math a very recent Dell quote that I got. if my VMware licensing goes up by any more than about 2.1x, I might as well scrap my entire current generation of server hardware and go with somebody who gives you a whole appliance, like Scale Computing or Nutanix. Nutanix in particular might be an interesting choice for one of my gigantic vdi environments God drat it I had just spent five years getting all of our virtualization onto the same platform.
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At least VMware by VMware was giving people good jobs with our license money. The thing that feels worst about this is that the lion's share of the VMware buyout is sitting in the offshore accounts of Michael Dell, his private capital buddies, and a few large investment firms. Some bank in Aruba is flush with like $25B of that sale price. Worthless, unproductive waste. Nope our license money is going to be at $fuckyou cost, and it's going purely to backfill buyout debt, vulture capitalists, and a far reduced workforce. poo poo, remember when VMware laid off much of its dedicated support team in anticipation of buyout, and suddenly their engineers started getting pulled into T1 issues?
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Zorak of Michigan posted:VMware had a dedicated support team? The way they treated our tickets, I assumed they just printed them, left on the street, and trusted that someone curious would pick them up and call us. They used to. It was friggin great, too.
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Broadcom is asking for enough that, in a perverse way, I can afford to replace all of my gear for every customer still on vsphere, gratis what the absolute gently caress
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Wibla posted:OpenStack is a no-go, but it sounds like XCP-ng is worth investigating? At least for professional use. I'm happy with proxmox for home use / single host stuff. xosan v2 is around the corner, god I hope it's around the corner think S2D or VSAN, but tightly integrated with the hypervisor's control panels
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skipdogg posted:Anyone here with a very large Nutanix deployment? (3K+ VM's?). an MSP adjacent to me just got done moving a maaaaaaassive customer OFF of Nutanix in order to have some essentials (like uptime) and better features (like useful support). Idk man.
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Kaddish posted:I feel like the best use case for HCI is smaller installations with no or little existing infrastructure. agreed, and that's where we use it propping up a new environment with VMware and, say, Pure storage introduces a lot of single points of failure (that also prevent maintenance during business hours) unless you are spending above half a million dollars. ESXi + VSAN or Hyper-V + S2D allows you to give somebody storage and compute at, heck, $30-60k per node depending on how much storage and ram density is needed. replace old nodes on a rolling basis and suddenly you have a situation that resembles a cloud deployment but way cheaper.
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