Broadcom yanks ESXi Free version, effective immediately - eviltoast

I’d expected this but it still sucks.

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.worldEnglish
    99·
    9 months ago

    Regrettably, there is currently no substitute product offered.

    I really don’t think you regret a God damn thing broadcom.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
      291·
      9 months ago

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

        • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

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

      • TheHolm@aussie.zoneEnglish
        413·
        9 months ago

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

        • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
          241·
          9 months ago

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

        • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          9 months ago

          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
          • Anarch157a@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            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,

            • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              9 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.

        • jelloeater - Ops Mgr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          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.

          • ssdfsdf3488sd@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 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