Subj : Re: Proxmox 8 is out...
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : tassiebob
Date : Mon Jul 17 2023 17:31:00

 pF>  Glad to hear about a commercial application of Proxmox. Were you
 pF>  involved in support? I'd love to hear about their commercial support
 pF>  offering from someone who used it.

Nah, I wasn't in IT - I'm a network engineer working on service provider networks.  I did have access to the IT proxmox cluster though and could create & admin my own VM's if I needed.

Most of the problems I remember with that compute cluster were with the storage.  It was an HP storage thing I think and occasionally it'd wig out and cause breakage.

 pF> vSphere definitely feels like a throwback to the LAN Era in the late
 pF> '80s and early '90s, when you'd get heated rivalries between Novell
 pF> Netware, Banyan Vines, MS LAN Manager - people knew *their* platform and
 pF> hated the rest. ESXi admins have that same vibe.

It's been a while since I used VMware in anger, but I'm guessing it probably has some valuable features that other virtualisation platforms don't (more correctly don't /yet/).  I'm also guessing that those features just aren't needed in many environments?

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