bullerwins
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I've been with XCP-ng for like 3 years as per Tom Lawrence recommnedation and I like it a bit more over Proxmox
Not only does it support live migration of the running VM (i.e., RAM) between hosts, it supports live migration of VM storage between hosts.Does VMWare support live migration from 1 host server to another?
Thanks for the confirmation.Not only does it support live migration of the running VM (i.e., RAM) between hosts, it supports live migration of VM storage between hosts.
So, you can have hosts that have local storage running ESXi and move running VMs between them, all without any kind of NAS or SAN.
I use it when I want to perform maintenance on a host where there are VMs that are redundant in some way (MySQL cluster, mail servers, etc.) and I generally run them on separate hosts. I move the VM temporarily to avoid log messages about cluster issues, and then move it back after maintenance. This is faster than moving the storage to SAN then to the new host.That second part sounds neat, avoiding NAS or SAN storage. Though I've seen some VMWare hosts die unexpectedly, (hardware fault), which would have taken their VM's storage with the failed host. Can't bring up the VM on another host.
Not only does it support live migration of the running VM (i.e., RAM) between hosts, it supports live migration of VM storage between hosts.
Though I've seen some VMWare hosts die unexpectedly, (hardware fault), which would have taken their VM's storage with the failed host. Can't bring up the VM on another host.
I wish we could. The cost increase for us just isn't sustainable. It's easy to setup, administer, it has a small footprint, and the feature list is pretty big. Not to mention Veeam integration, Docker integration, the list goes on. Screw you Broadcom!We'll be sticking with VMware. The number of tools (HA with fail over is huge for us) and flexibility it provides us with is paramount. Veeam is simply the easiest backup solution and works great with Exchange, Office 365 and on-premise servers and tightly integrates with VMware. Supposedly Veeam is looking into adding support for Proxmox.
…which is just what Broadcom is betting on.For most enterprise customers I know they are just going to stick with VMWare. Switching is just not worth the cost or risk.
…which is just what Broadcom is betting on.
Home-labbers are no loss to them, since these were not paying customers.
How much they are raising the licensing fees?
This sort of thing is always very opaque. Reporting from STH mentions that one specific package/product was increased 10x, plus a higher minimum number of licenses.How much they are raising the licensing fees?
Short answer is "no", but they do have a very polished set of products. And yes, it is a shameless cash grab above all else.Is there any specific feature which they can offer but no other virtualization platform can, or is it just cashing that delicious vendor lock-in which the stakeholders absolutely love?
A lot for midsize customers, a decent amount for small customers, and probably not really that much for large customers.How much they are raising the licensing fees?
@Patrick M. Hausen Hello Patrick, In Truenas Core Systems we have in menu Virtual Machines. Is this based on Bhyve type 2 hypervisor ?Also there were (in our experience) quite attractive bundles for SMBs named "VMware Essentials". About one grand for three years support and updates and
No HA, no vMotion, though you could move live VMs from one host to another one through vCenter.
- three hosts with
- 2 CPUs each - no limit on cores or anything
- central management (vCenter)
Oddly enough there was no renewal option for these contracts so we simply bought one every three years. We used local storage for the VMs and I build an NFS datastore on FreeBSD, ZFS and NFS - later replaced by TrueNAS - and ran ghettoVCB to perform backups of all VMs.
Should one host fail you could fire up the VMs on the remaining two straight from the NFS store, be back in service, and care about repair and performance optimisation later in a maintenance window.
I have no problem paying for products or service - but you see the difference
We replaced that cluster with TrueNAS CORE.
Yes.Hello Patrick, In Truenas Core Systems we have in menu Virtual Machines. Is this based on Bhyve type 2 hypervisor ?
Debian, Ubuntu, Windows, ...Do you run debian VM's , or is it prefferable to run freeBSD VM's ?
I suggest you start here: https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/13.0/uireference/jailspluginsvms/virtualmachines/virtualmachines/Can you provide any guides for starting up with this ?