Subj : Re: Choice of hypervisors
To   : deon
From : vorlon
Date : Mon Jul 04 2022 22:19:15

Hi Deon,

 > 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 :)

Yes ESXi will run on more hardware than what's on the HCL, if you want to
"hack" around with it. I had to use a third party network driver for the
second port on my current home server. (Intel S1200BTL, with a Xeon
E31240 @3.3Ghz) I'd still be using my old/previous home server (Now
that it's only me) running a Q9600 cpu, if it wasn't for the dropping of
the cpu support and the limit of 8gb of ram....

Vmware go out of there way to remove still valid and usable cpu's etc. But
then they are aming the product at the comercial $$$ paying people. It's
just lucky for the comminity that they have a free/trial version of the
product.

 > 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.

I have installed proxmox on the above older server (The Q9600), and it
used just shy of 1gb of ram.. I think it was around the 900mb area.

Unlike ESXi though, proxmox want's to use part of the HD for the debian
based install. The other thing I'm yet to try out and why my S1299BTL is
still on ESXi (6.5 now), is the hardware passthrough for the sata hd
controller. It's got 4 2gb hd's passed through to Nas4free, with ZFS on
the drives.





\/orlon
aka
Stephen


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