Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-17 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 4/17/24 2:07 PM, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: Research clustered file systems and / or clustered LVM.  What you find should have SIGNIFICANT overlap with and much of it will probably be possible in Proxmox. Here's some additional reading that might be of interest. TL;DR: Glowsome has be

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-17 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 4/16/24 23:42, Bruno Flückiger via mailop wrote: Proxmox does not support the current architecture I have at work: clusters of hosts served by a central storage system connected to the hosts by FC SAN. I run few huge volumes on the storage that are shared among the cluster hosts. As I have s

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-17 Thread Bruno Flückiger via mailop
On 17.04.2024 09:56, Andrew C Aitchison via mailop wrote: On Wed, 17 Apr 2024, Bruno Flückiger via mailop wrote: What sort of shortcomings do you see for, say, Proxmox?  I would say that by using Open vSwitch & Free Range Routing (with EVPN), one can get pretty close to the VMware NSX.  And wi

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-17 Thread Niels Dettenbach via mailop
Am Dienstag, 16. April 2024, 14:15:17 CEST schrieb Raymond Burkholder via mailop: > > Similar products are Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle Linux Virtualization > > Manager (OLVM), Proxmox and Nutanix. Each one of these products has > > some shortcommings compared to VMware. If you don't need a GUI to >

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-17 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via mailop
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024, Bruno Flückiger via mailop wrote: What sort of shortcomings do you see for, say, Proxmox?  I would say that by using Open vSwitch & Free Range Routing (with EVPN), one can get pretty close to the VMware NSX.  And with enabling Ceph on Proxmox, one can get the VSan-like fun

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-16 Thread Bruno Flückiger via mailop
On 16.04.2024 14:15, Raymond Burkholder via mailop wrote: On 2024-04-15 22:47, Bruno Flückiger via mailop wrote: On 15.04.2024 22:40, Kevin A. McGrail via mailop wrote: Hi All, We have four servers where we can't retrieve our free ESXi VMWare license after Broadcom shut things down and they a

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-16 Thread Dan Mahoney via mailop
> On Apr 15, 2024, at 16:40, Kevin A. McGrail via mailop > wrote: > > Hi All, > > We have four servers where we can't retrieve our free ESXi VMWare license > after Broadcom shut things down and they are in evaluation mode for about 30 > more days. > > Does any one have any advice? Is ther

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-16 Thread Carsten Schiefner via mailop
On 16.04.2024 16:06, Kevin A. McGrail via mailop wrote: As the original poster, I wanted to say thanks.  Based on the dozen or so replies so far, I clearly struck a nerve.  I'm reading all the replies with great interest. Even without having any of your current itches, Kevin, I am having a cl

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-16 Thread Christoph Haas via mailop
Hello Kevin, I'd give another "+1" for Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) [1] as drop-in replacement for your VMware! I'm using several Proxmox-setups (mainly PVE) in different environments and I'm just happy with it!!! It supports full virtualization through KVM, Linux-containers through

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-16 Thread Chris Adams via mailop
Once upon a time, Jaroslaw Rafa said: > You can very well have a GUI when using KVM - virt-manager is a very nice > piece of GUI to manage virtual machines running under KVM... > > Of course it's not a web-GUI, ie. virt-manager is just an ordinary X > application running on the host OS (I routine

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-16 Thread Raymond Burkholder via mailop
On 2024-04-15 22:47, Bruno Flückiger via mailop wrote: On 15.04.2024 22:40, Kevin A. McGrail via mailop wrote: Hi All, We have four servers where we can't retrieve our free ESXi VMWare license after Broadcom shut things down and they are in evaluation mode for about 30 more days. Similar

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-16 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 16.04.2024 o godz. 06:47:44 Bruno Flückiger via mailop pisze: > Similar products are Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle Linux Virtualization > Manager (OLVM), Proxmox and Nutanix. Each one of these products has > some shortcommings compared to VMware. If you don't need a GUI to > manage your virtual en

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-16 Thread Paul Menzel via mailop
Dear Eric, Am 16.04.24 um 01:06 schrieb Eric Tykwinski via mailop: I know this is totally off topic now, but how are you feeling about their support contracts. (ProxMox) (Nit: Proxmox is the official spelling – no camel-case.) 1.020 €/(year & CPU socket) for the plan *Premium* is quite cheap

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-16 Thread Eduardo Diaz Comellas via mailop
Hi, We use XCPng in several clusters (with 9, 8 and 6 nodes, and several others with 2-3 nodes, all with shared storage) with great success. It is free software and you can purchase support if you want. We have been using Xen-ish since before the Citrix era and we can see that XCPng is not on

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-15 Thread Bruno Flückiger via mailop
On 15.04.2024 22:40, Kevin A. McGrail via mailop wrote: Hi All, We have four servers where we can't retrieve our free ESXi VMWare license after Broadcom shut things down and they are in evaluation mode for about 30 more days. Does any one have any advice?  Is there a product we can buy?  Is

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-15 Thread Eric Tykwinski via mailop
I know this is totally off topic now, but how are you feeling about their support contracts. (ProxMox) I’m honestly playing around with the OS, as we are running VMWare 8.x perpetual now, and slated to migrate off. I barely used TAC on VMWare maybe 3 times in 12 years, but having that option o

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-15 Thread Michael Irvine via mailop
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Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-15 Thread Barnabas Toth via mailop
Proxmox has 'New Import Wizard Available for Migrating VMware ESXi Based Virtual Machines' see https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/new-import-wizard-available-for-migrating-vmware-esxi-based-virtual-machines.144023/ . Best Regards, Barnabas Toth | webmas...@speckz.com Bio, Portfolio, Resume, and Se

Re: [mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-15 Thread Richard Laager via mailop
On 2024-04-15 15:40, Kevin A. McGrail via mailop wrote: We have four servers where we can't retrieve our free ESXi VMWare license after Broadcom shut things down and they are in evaluation mode for about 30 more days. Does any one have any advice?  Is there a product we can buy?  Is there an

[mailop] Off-Topic - VMWare ESXI 7.0

2024-04-15 Thread Kevin A. McGrail via mailop
Hi All, We have four servers where we can't retrieve our free ESXi VMWare license after Broadcom shut things down and they are in evaluation mode for about 30 more days. Does any one have any advice?  Is there a product we can buy?  Is there an alternative you've been switching over to using