We are testing out a Proxmox VE install and so far it looks pretty good. -- Larry Smith lesm...@ecsis.net
On Tue July 12 2022 14:08, Mark - Myakka Technologies wrote: > Dustin, > > What is your thoughts on Hyper-V vs VMWare. To be honest, I'm more > comfortable in a windows environment. Almost all my VMs are windows OSs at > the moment. I do have a couple of Ubuntu servers running. Be interested > in why you went Hyper-V over VMWare? I think VMWare has the larger market > share. > > > > -- > Best regards, > Mark mailto:m...@mailmt.com > > Myakka Communications > www.Myakka.com > > ------ > > Tuesday, July 12, 2022, 2:53:39 PM, you wrote: > > > > > > Hey Mark, > > I know we do that with native Hyper-V and it always seem strange to me > that if you are running Microsoft VM's you have to purchase Microsoft > Datacenter licenses and VMWARE, but I understand some applications are only > supported under VMWARE. That being said we use altaro for unattended > backups (Microsoft and Linux) and they have a VMWARE version you might want > to check out. > > Good Luck, > > Dustin > > Dustin Jurman > CEO > (NEW ADDRESS) > Rapid Systems Corporation > 1801 N Himes Ave > Tampa, FL 33607 > Ph: 813-232-4887 > http://www.rapidsys.com > “Building Better Infrastructure” > > > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> on behalf of Mark - Myakka Technologies > <m...@mailmt.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 2:41:53 PM > To: af@af.afmug.com > Subject: [AFMUG] VMWare > > We had a slight electric issue yesterday. Messed up some of our > VM servers. I got things rigged back together, but I need to build a > more robust VM system. > > I'm look to move into the VMWare world. I think Vmware Vsphere > Essentials Plus is the route I need to go. I may be able to get away > with just Essentials, but the extra tools may help. > > Any thoughts on setup. Currently we run RAID10 on each VM Host and > backup to a NAS. I'm thinking I'll keep that setup for the VMWare. > > If I get Essentials Plus will I be able to to HOT backups of running > VMs or is that a third party thing? > > > -- > > Thanks, > Mark mailto:m...@mailmt.com > > Myakka Communications > www.Myakka.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
