Subj : ESXi
To   : Accession
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Nov 04 2025 08:58 pm

  Re: ESXi
  By: Accession to All on Tue Nov 04 2025 05:05 pm

 > Much further digging, and the latest versions of ESXi don't support my old
 > ass hardware any more (Proliant ML310e Gen8). I think the latest I could go
 > is either 6.7 or 7.0 Update 3 with some kind of a customized build for
 > pre-Gen9 HPE hardware. I'm currently at 6.5, so don't really care to bother
 > with it any more. I was more excited to try out the new and shiny, but that
 > didn't work out too well for me. ;)

VMWare dropped support for my 4-year old Dells, and VMWare Workstation for Linux only worked with certain kernels. Update your kernel and VMWare would break until you updated it - if they had an update for a version other than the latest and greatest.

That's what attracted me to Proxmox - I've run it on the cheapest, EOL crap and it just runs. I'm seriously tempted to move my production servers at work to it; I'm mostly running utility and dev workloads on them now.
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