On 2024-04-15 22:47, Bruno Flückiger via mailop wrote:
On 15.04.2024 22:40, Kevin A. McGrail via mailop wrote:
Hi All,
We have four servers where we can't retrieve our free ESXi VMWare
license after Broadcom shut things down and they are in evaluation
mode for about 30 more days.
Similar products are Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle Linux Virtualization
Manager (OLVM), Proxmox and Nutanix. Each one of these products has
some shortcommings compared to VMware. If you don't need a GUI to
manage your virtual environment you might consider using KVM (Linux)
or bhyve (FreeBSD) as hypervisor.
What sort of shortcomings do you see for, say, Proxmox? I would say
that by using Open vSwitch & Free Range Routing (with EVPN), one can get
pretty close to the VMware NSX. And with enabling Ceph on Proxmox, one
can get the VSan-like functional distributed/block storage. Then throw
Ansible at it for automation. And Prometheus/Grafana for
monitoring/observability.
At work we are currently building a PoC with OLVM as we have Oracle
licenses anyway. And because OVLM is the one product that comes
closest to the feature set of VMware we need. But I still hope we find
a way forward with VMware. Moving everything to Oracle gives me
nightmares.
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