Subj : Worky work
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : niter3
Date : Thu Jan 18 2024 02:23 pm

 pF>  I'd just heard that broadcom is getting rid of the "hobbyist" perpetual
 pF>  ESXi license - which is a huge mistake IMO.

This is exactly why I moved over to Proxmox for home use... Plus this gives me a direction in the future to down size my servers to small units like the Intel NUC's or whatever the replacement will be at that time. Less power...

 pF>  Although having a path for people to learn ESXi at home and to have a
 pF>  sandbox to play with doesn't fit into Broadcom's master plan of large
 pF>  enterprise customers and enterprise training/certification.

All about the money.

 pF>  Proxmox does run well on Pis, and you can get a couple of small VMs
 pF>  running on a Pi 4 with 8 GB nicely.

Does it really? I wouldn't think it could... Are we talking about linux VM's?

.... Some people have no idea what they're doing, and are really good at it!

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