Subj : Re: Choice of hypervisors
To   : vorlon
From : deon
Date : Mon Jul 04 2022 17:28:08

  Re: Re: Choice of hypervisors
  By: vorlon to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jul 04 2022 10:50 am

 >  > Part of the reason I chose Proxmox over ESXi is compatibility. I run
 >  > vSphere at work, and ESXi is finicky about hardware - I had to retire
 >  > a Dell rack mount server because 7.0 wouldn't support it.
 >
 > That is one of the main bug bears with ESXi. I have a perfectly fine
 > Dell 210 half length server, that's got a Xeon (I think x3470 3.9Ghz quad core), the only short comming with that server is it's
 > max 16Gb of ram. ESXi 5 ran fine on it, but I wasn't willing to use that in
 > production, so it was setup with Proxmox 6.x when installed in a data
 > centre, and was rocksolid...

I must say I've been pretty lucky to get ESXi on a lot of things (that werent on the HCL). There is a german site (escapes me at the moment) that has a lot of "community" drivers that has been quite useful. With that site, I have it running on an APU1D (which runs my BBS, Hub 3, my netware server, an MSDOS 622 and my Windows game server) - which only has a serial port for a console :)

That said, I was interseted to see the discussion on xcp-ng and proxmox. ESXi takes up too much of the 4G and I'm wondering if I can replace it with one of those to get a little bit more ram.


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