Subj : Re: Choice of hypervisors
To   : claw
From : vorlon
Date : Tue Jul 05 2022 10:41:00

Hi Claw,

 >  vo> Yes ESXi will run on more hardware than what's on the HCL, if you
 >  vo> want to "hack" around with it. I had to use a third party network
 >  vo> driver
 > 
 > I've been reading a bit of these for a while know and am wondering
 > what it is you can't run.  I have used ESXi for a long time and most
 > of the time If I can do an upgrade it doesn't lose support of any of
 > the hardware.  I think I'm currently on 6.7.  I'm not at home but
[...]
 > The majority of my servers are on Linux, with only a few exceptions
 > for game servers that really need to be in windows.  

Proxmox will run a windows guest just fine.
 
 > I have a Dell R815.  Its old but its kicking along.  Been able to do
 > anything I throw at it.

Older hardware with ram limitations is the only reason I've changed to
newer hardware. 8/16gb of ram was just not enough.

In the process I updated the host software, in doing a fresh install as I
didn't want any "crud" left over. I was running ESXi 5.5 for a very long
time, and it's only drawback was the requiremt of it's client management
software. 

I've got 8 vm's installed with 7 running 24/7 on my current server.


\/orlon
aka
Stephen


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