Question about AWS
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@scottalanmiller said in Question about AWS:
From your description, my guess is that very simple virtualization is what you need. KVM is where I would start. Free and enterprise. All of the features included. Keep it simple, and standard.
I think so too. My first recommendation then was XenServer and even Hyper-V but my Director wanted VMWare, it changed the landscape because of pricing.
I was loving XenServer until I tried Proxmox :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes:
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I believe it is based-off KVM.
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Though I haven't tried XCP-ng
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@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
VMWare, it changed the landscape because of pricing.
Why? If there is one option that is not likely to make sense, that's it. Not that VMware is bad, but it is completely wrong for this use case. To the point that it should never even be considered, let alone considered strongly.
KVM, Xen, and Hyper-V are all fine options. I would lean to KVM, it makes more sense for you. More "future looking".
VMware makes zero sense.... it doesn't have the features, the cost, or the "future" that a business person would want. Again, this sounds like a totally bad emotional reaction. Ask him for his "business reasons"... how would VMware help to make money?
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@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
I was loving XenServer until I tried Proxmox
We generally avoid ProxMox because the vendor isn't very good. It is just extra features bolted onto KVM and LXC. A pretty weird idea. It mostly works, and lots of people like it. But I would never trust that vendor in my business. They have a bad track record from
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@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
Though I haven't tried XCP-ng
XCP-NG is good, that would be the only logical way to approach Xen in this scenario.
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@scottalanmiller said in Question about AWS:
@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
VMWare, it changed the landscape because of pricing.
Why? If there is one option that is not likely to make sense, that's it. Not that VMware is bad, but it is completely wrong for this use case. To the point that it should never even be considered, let alone considered strongly.
KVM, Xen, and Hyper-V are all fine options. I would lean to KVM, it makes more sense for you. More "future looking".
VMware makes zero sense.... it doesn't have the features, the cost, or the "future" that a business person would want. Again, this sounds like a totally bad emotional reaction. Ask him for his "business reasons"... how would VMware help to make money?
and it made the project to a crawl.
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@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
@scottalanmiller said in Question about AWS:
@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
VMWare, it changed the landscape because of pricing.
Why? If there is one option that is not likely to make sense, that's it. Not that VMware is bad, but it is completely wrong for this use case. To the point that it should never even be considered, let alone considered strongly.
KVM, Xen, and Hyper-V are all fine options. I would lean to KVM, it makes more sense for you. More "future looking".
VMware makes zero sense.... it doesn't have the features, the cost, or the "future" that a business person would want. Again, this sounds like a totally bad emotional reaction. Ask him for his "business reasons"... how would VMware help to make money?
and it made the project to a crawl.
Ha. We always find the biggest problems with it are around license management. It takes so much unnecessary work when you are just trying to do basic tasks. And the simplest things like adding another server to the company can totally break all of the plans.
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@scottalanmiller said in Question about AWS:
@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
I was loving XenServer until I tried Proxmox
We generally avoid ProxMox because the vendor isn't very good. It is just extra features bolted onto KVM and LXC. A pretty weird idea. It mostly works, and lots of people like it. But I would never trust that vendor in my business. They have a bad track record from
I'll have to check on that forum. I'll be checking XCP-ng and KVM this time around.
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@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
@scottalanmiller said in Question about AWS:
@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
I was loving XenServer until I tried Proxmox
We generally avoid ProxMox because the vendor isn't very good. It is just extra features bolted onto KVM and LXC. A pretty weird idea. It mostly works, and lots of people like it. But I would never trust that vendor in my business. They have a bad track record from
I'll have to check on that forum. I'll be checking XCP-ng and KVM this time around.
No need to check, every time someone talks about them they have hired trolls who pop on to promote the product.
is filled with fake reviews by people who created one time accounts to spam reviews of ProxMox. They got caught over and over again, but just kept doing it. You can't trust anything good you've ever heard about it, because they generate fake reviews everywhere, and if you mention it, their staff will create accounts and attack you. -
@scottalanmiller said in Question about AWS:
@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
@scottalanmiller said in Question about AWS:
@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
VMWare, it changed the landscape because of pricing.
Why? If there is one option that is not likely to make sense, that's it. Not that VMware is bad, but it is completely wrong for this use case. To the point that it should never even be considered, let alone considered strongly.
KVM, Xen, and Hyper-V are all fine options. I would lean to KVM, it makes more sense for you. More "future looking".
VMware makes zero sense.... it doesn't have the features, the cost, or the "future" that a business person would want. Again, this sounds like a totally bad emotional reaction. Ask him for his "business reasons"... how would VMware help to make money?
and it made the project to a crawl.
Ha. We always find the biggest problems with it are around license management. It takes so much unnecessary work when you are just trying to do basic tasks. And the simplest things like adding another server to the company can totally break all of the plans.
I second this. I was just trying to get a basic VM with ability to transfer VMs to another server should there be something wrong in the host...HCI was proposed.
It was good, so is the pricetag.
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@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
I'll be checking XCP-ng and KVM this time around.
Those are likely the best choices. KVM is really what makes the most sense now. It is what everyone is using, it is where all of the focus is. I was the strongest proponent of Xen for a really long time, and I still love it. But KVM is just the more sensible option. So much easier to get support and tools.
Get Fedora, install KVM, use Cockpit, oVirt or any number of options. Easy peasy.
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@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
@scottalanmiller said in Question about AWS:
@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
@scottalanmiller said in Question about AWS:
@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
VMWare, it changed the landscape because of pricing.
Why? If there is one option that is not likely to make sense, that's it. Not that VMware is bad, but it is completely wrong for this use case. To the point that it should never even be considered, let alone considered strongly.
KVM, Xen, and Hyper-V are all fine options. I would lean to KVM, it makes more sense for you. More "future looking".
VMware makes zero sense.... it doesn't have the features, the cost, or the "future" that a business person would want. Again, this sounds like a totally bad emotional reaction. Ask him for his "business reasons"... how would VMware help to make money?
and it made the project to a crawl.
Ha. We always find the biggest problems with it are around license management. It takes so much unnecessary work when you are just trying to do basic tasks. And the simplest things like adding another server to the company can totally break all of the plans.
I second this. I was just trying to get a basic VM with ability to transfer VMs to another server should there be something wrong in the host...HCI was proposed.
It was good, so is the pricetag.
HCI is not for transferring. Who proposed that?
HC on Vmware is absurdly expensive. But it is free on KVM, Xen, and Hyper-V.
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@scottalanmiller said in Question about AWS:
@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
I'll be checking XCP-ng and KVM this time around.
Those are likely the best choices. KVM is really what makes the most sense now. It is what everyone is using, it is where all of the focus is. I was the strongest proponent of Xen for a really long time, and I still love it. But KVM is just the more sensible option. So much easier to get support and tools.
Get Fedora, install KVM, use Cockpit, oVirt or any number of options. Easy peasy.
Thanks, I'll do that.
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I like Cockpit a lot for that, BUT it lacks the ability to create the initial VMs. So we do that through the command line. But you can connect to the VMs, view their stats, go to their consoles and such in Cockpit. And that is what we like.
Fedora 30 is not far away and I am hopeful that they have improved Cockpit for that significantly.
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@scottalanmiller said in Question about AWS:
HCI is not for transferring. Who proposed that?
HC on Vmware is absurdly expensive. But it is free on KVM, Xen, and Hyper-V.
Guess who? Vendor? VMWare-accredited? :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:
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oVirt is the more robust, enterprise option for now. Also free. But gets installed as a VM on top of the KVM hosts. oVirt is almost certainly better for a cluster. For single hosts, I'd use command line tools and Cockpit.
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@vhinzsanchez said in Question about AWS:
@scottalanmiller said in Question about AWS:
HCI is not for transferring. Who proposed that?
HC on Vmware is absurdly expensive. But it is free on KVM, Xen, and Hyper-V.
Guess who? Vendor? VMWare-accredited? :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:
I assume a reseller, not VMware themselves.
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Time to get those predatory vendors out of there!
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@scottalanmiller said in Question about AWS:
I assume a reseller, not VMware themselves.
correct, a local reseller
