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Why ESXi just out of curiousity? Seems like most businesses I work with are ripping it out (some with glee) and going acropolis/kubevirt/QEMU or cloud.

bombcar 5y ago
ESXi free edition is real nice and very easy to setup.
ocdtrekkie 5y ago
For really modern stuff sure, but a lot of enterprises are not using containers, they're still Hyper-V or VMware based. The only reason to go Hyper-V is because it's cheaper, so if you can use ESXi free... you choose ESXi. ESXi remains one of the most ridiculously and stupidly stable platforms of all time. Someday someone will find an ESXi host with a twenty year uptime. Not because you should, but because it can.
moondev 5y ago
vSphere (ESXi + vCenter) is much more enjoyable to use than proxmox in my experience. Compare the UI below but you really notice it when using it. https://i0.wp.com/williamlam.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/dfi-ec90a-gh-3.png https://i0.wp.com/williamlam.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5sm0cjXoAIfLM9?format=png&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5sm0cjXoAIfLM9?format=png&name=... Here are some other reasons: * Best support for PCIe passthrough, easily toggle PCIe devices from UI without reboot. * Best networking with virtual distrubuted switches - more intuitive to manage and use * vSAN integration with k8s for block volumes is great, including volume snapshots. Also supports RWX (nfs) volumes * vSphere api is a first class citizen with cloud native tooling such as terraform, ansible and packer. It also has a great golang-based cli via govc. With all that said I actually still experiment with kvm (kubevirt, harvester etc) by running it nested inside esxi which works exactly how you would expect. Much prefer vSphere as the base of my lab though.

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Why ESXi just out of curiousity? Seems like most businesses I work with are ripping it out (some with glee) and going acropolis/kubevirt/QEMU or cloud.

by candiddevmike 5y ago

bombcar 5y ago
ESXi free edition is real nice and very easy to setup.
ocdtrekkie 5y ago
For really modern stuff sure, but a lot of enterprises are not using containers, they're still Hyper-V or VMware based. The only reason to go Hyper-V is because it's cheaper, so if you can use ESXi free... you choose ESXi. ESXi remains one of the most ridiculously and stupidly stable platforms of all time. Someday someone will find an ESXi host with a twenty year uptime. Not because you should, but because it can.
moondev 5y ago
vSphere (ESXi + vCenter) is much more enjoyable to use than proxmox in my experience. Compare the UI below but you really notice it when using it. https://i0.wp.com/williamlam.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/dfi-ec90a-gh-3.png https://i0.wp.com/williamlam.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5sm0cjXoAIfLM9?format=png&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5sm0cjXoAIfLM9?format=png&name=... Here are some other reasons: * Best support for PCIe passthrough, easily toggle PCIe devices from UI without reboot. * Best networking with virtual distrubuted switches - more intuitive to manage and use * vSAN integration with k8s for block volumes is great, including volume snapshots. Also supports RWX (nfs) volumes * vSphere api is a first class citizen with cloud native tooling such as terraform, ansible and packer. It also has a great golang-based cli via govc. With all that said I actually still experiment with kvm (kubevirt, harvester etc) by running it nested inside esxi which works exactly how you would expect. Much prefer vSphere as the base of my lab though.