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Sounds like you do crazy stuff like run computers inside of computers

brandonbarr

A good video, though you didn't say what you are using for storage. Just a disk? No RAID?

Sadly, after running my own ESX server for more than 10 (!) years - since they introduced stand-alone ESXi - I have now pretty much given up. They simply dropped too much hardware support for whiteboxes. That server used to run my SOHO and everything I needed locally in the house with fail-over NICs and RAID10. I had amazing uptimes - the box was just always there and so were the VMs. Disks failed over the years, but with RAID I never lost any data.

I had "traditionally" always done a desktop refresh and re-used my old PC (which generally was top of the line in the day) as the latest HW upgrade for ESXi. That old hardware was always supported - at worst you could grab some VIBs off v-front and run esx-optimizer. That went for whatever NICs the mobo had (generally Intel or Realtek) and the PCI SAS/SATA RAID controller I just dragged along. Those days are over. V-front is dead; virtuallyghetto isn't that useful either.

The 4 or 5 year old Intel NICs in the mobo of my former PC? Not supported in either 6.7 or 7.0 (I managed to get one to work in 7.0 with esx-optimizer). My SAS/SATA RAID controller? Only supported in vmklinux, so gone in 7.0 and no legacy VIB around.

For the $$$ I'd need to upgrade everything I can just shift a lot of my stuff into the cloud. Services I want to run on the local LAN, I can dump on to a bunch of NUCs I have around. Just can't feeling it pushes VMware ever more toward irrelevancy. :(

michaelhoffmann

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