ESXI AVAILABILITY UPDATE

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LostCorpse

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More for those people not aware. bit saddened as it was a good product for homelab, dispite the restrictions.


Last Updated: 14/02/2024
Today, Broadcom announced immediate end of ESXi availability. ESXi has been an important tool for many "homelab" enthusiasts -- offering simple bare metal virtualization for small setups. Unfortunately they don't offer a replacement, except for paid subscription services
 
i can see the vmware business is changing drastically.
there is a plus side, those with vmware expirence could be highly sort after which usually mean good sallary also. it'll be a ver speciallist field to work in.
 
ive see a resergance of C developers, but yes i know what you mean.
and you defo wont get the new blood in. "why work with "old" tech" so to speak.
just looking for a small positive.
I guess i'll be using Proxmox and or xcp-ng going forward, both have positives and negatives.
 
Hyper-V was free and sort of still is. if you have windows 10 ro its just enabling it. you can get server editions on long trials or pick up cheap keys.
i cant seem to see that there is a free version now, there was when it release Hyper-v Server. but frm memory and searching its disconntinued.
last time i played with Hyper-V you needed a domain set up to manage it and it wasnt as feature rich.

Proxmox (been around 15years)- aimed at smaller organisations that said its also in use in a lot of larg companies. Linux knowlege is usufll to have.
XCP-ng (been around 5years a relative new commer)- based on Xen aimed more at larger organisations
in simplistic terms. both free


just depends what you looking for. its always good to know multiple technologies.
Hyper-V obvious in use in a lot of large companies.
all of them is good for getting to know the CMD/Terminal usage.

i can see Proxmox/XCP-NG getting a lot of new customers in the next year or so potentially, which would be good for them.

it really depends which one works best for you. give them both a try or try something competely differant and let us know what you find :)

i thought this was a nice little read : https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/12j0rry/my_personal_impressions_on_proxmox_vs_xcpng/
 
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