Subj : Re: Choice of hypervisors
To   : deon
From : tassiebob
Date : Mon Jul 04 2022 22:32:30

 de> I must say I've been pretty lucky to get ESXi on a lot of things (that
 de> werent on the HCL). There is a german site (escapes me at the moment)
 de> that has a lot of "community" drivers that has been quite useful.

Ain't nobody got time to be friggin' with the hypervisor to get it working on a box :-)  My recollection is that ESXi was quite unhappy with my R720's, and given our IT guys at work use ProxMox I figured I'd give it a run.  It just works.

 de> that site, I have it running on an APU1D (which runs my BBS, Hub 3, my
 de> netware server, an MSDOS 622 and my Windows game server) - which only
 de> has a serial port for a console :)

I think my home Proxmox box has a CPU along those lines - it's a HP thin client with 4G of RAM and an SSD strapped into it.  Runs DNS and the PBX :-)

The ProxMox backup server is pretty nice too - if you end up with ProxMox, then it's worth a look.  I run it as a VM on one of the servers and backup all the VM's (including those at home) to it.  VM's on the server with the backup server get backed up separately as well.

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