Subj : Worky work
To   : niter3
From : Joacim Melin
Date : Sat Jan 20 2024 11:54:03

 pF>>  I'd just heard that broadcom is getting rid of the "hobbyist" perpetual
 pF>>  ESXi license - which is a huge mistake IMO.

 n> This is exactly why I moved over to Proxmox for home use... Plus this
 n> gives me a direction in the future to down size my servers to small
 n> units like the Intel NUC's or whatever the replacement will be at that
 n> time. Less power...

 pF>>  Although having a path for people to learn ESXi at home and to have a
 pF>>  sandbox to play with doesn't fit into Broadcom's master plan of large
 pF>>  enterprise customers and enterprise training/certification.

 n> All about the money.

 pF>>  Proxmox does run well on Pis, and you can get a couple of small VMs
 pF>>  running on a Pi 4 with 8 GB nicely.

 n> Does it really? I wouldn't think it could... Are we talking about
 n> linux VM's?

Yeah, but they have to support ARM (of course).  I ran both Ubuntu and Rocky Linux via Proxmox.  Had about 10-11 VM:s in my cluster (including a fairly busy Mastodon server). 


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