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Broadcom yanks ESXi Free version, effective immediately (kb.vmware.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'd expected this but it still sucks.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

If you're already running windows, hyper-v. theres proxmox, and tons of others. So they are mistaken. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They mean that they aren't offering another solution.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I know, but this is the way I read it when they claim to give no option.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 8 months ago (5 children)

All of them not equate in same league. Do you know any type 1 free supervises out there? Xen probably.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Proxmox, Xen, hyper-v are all considered type 1 as far as I'm aware.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Proxmox

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I assume what you're looking for specifically here is a complete platform that you can install on bare-metal, not just the actual hypervisor itself. In which case consider any of these:

Proxmox
XCP-NG
Windows Hyper-V Server Core (basically Windows Server Nano with Hyper-V)
Any Linux distro running KVM/QEMU - Add Cockpit if you need a web interface, or use Virt-Manager, either directly or over X-forwarding

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Any Linux distro running KVM/QEMU - Add Cockpit if you need a web interface, or use Virt-Manager, either directly or over X-forwarding

No need for X forwarding, you can connect Virt-Manager to a remote system that has libvirt,

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This is true, but not everyone gets to use a linux system as their main desktop at work. I'm not aware of a windows version of virt-manager, but if that exists it would be fucking rad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

KVM makes proxmox type 1

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure why you're getting down voted, you're right. I'm not sure if anyone would run Proxmox for their enterprise hypervisor? I mean HyperV is okay. Slim pickings for big orgs. I know there's Nutanix, but most folks are moving to the big three for VMs and hosting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I am running proxmox at a moderately sized corp. The lack of a real support contract almost kills it, which is too bad because it is a decent product