Subj : Re: ESXi on Raspberry Pi hardware...
To   : MeaTLoTioN
From : paulie420
Date : Wed Oct 21 2020 13:58:17

On 20 Oct 2020, MeaTLoTioN said the following...
 Me> This is actually really neat, and I was looking at a few videos about
 Me> that too before I make the purchase of said RPi... the ESXi installation
 Me> is only for 6 months though, after that you "have" to pay for a license,
 Me> which is putting me off. 
 Me> 
 Me> On my current hypervisor I run Proxmox VE which is free, unless I want
 Me> support or enterprise solutions and then it costs. I thought VMWare did
 Me> an offering like that, but everywhere I look since reading your initial
 Me> message seems to suggest that ESXi is not free after 6 months use.
 Me> 
 Me> Still a very interesting project, and I am wondering if I can get
 Me> Proxmox on the RPi, if so... that's what I will get a RPi for. 8GB ram
 Me> and quad core should make it a really nice system for hosting containers
 Me> and virtualising lots of stuff. Get a couple and one could make a
 Me> cluster.
 Me> 
 Me> Exciting times
 Me> 

Hmmmm.. so is that what proxmox is, a VE similar to ESXi??? I had seen people
talking about proxmox, and never knew if I could implement or use it for any
of my tasks...

I *think* you're right about the 6 month thing... I know they released the
ESXi RPi thing just so people could learn/use it with the raspberry pi
systems, but if I were to run ESXi for any time I would want to put it on
decent hardware so I could actually use it deeply.

Altho, the other poster Sean says with an 8gb model he gets some good
performance off the Pi even.

It is exciting, for me these Pi's have been nothing short of awesome. I run
kinda old hardware even for most of my daily drivers - and the Pi
ecosctructure really works for me. Teaches linux to my kids, runs my
BBS, Home Assistant Server, Pi-Hole and more. They are a big part of my home
computer network. :P



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