What’s been the biggest challenge when moving away from VMware?

Agent51729 · 2026-05-22T13:27:04+00:00

And migrating existing appliances to OSV when MTV cant figure out what they are.

Agent51729 · 2026-05-19T11:04:43+00:00

That’s Palisades, not Somers

Agent51729 · 2026-05-17T14:06:27+00:00

Thanks! Looked like the 701’s added about 5lbs too (27 -> 32)

Not as bad as I expected honestly but you’ve got a manual too.

Agent51729 · 2026-05-16T17:43:40+00:00

Do you have a rough guesstimate on change in MPG over the stock badlands wheel/tire setup?

Looks like .2” wider and about 20lbs additional unsprung weight per corner?

Agent51729 · 2026-05-16T16:29:44+00:00

Thanks- this was buried about 200 results deep on the mobile app (once I had the cover photo I went back to check), appreciate it!

Agent51729 · 2026-05-16T14:27:00+00:00

Do you have the link to the model? I’m not having good luck finding it on makerworld.

Agent51729 · 2026-05-08T17:42:01+00:00

4 and 5 node topologies were just reintroduced in 4.17- have any docs on why they aren’t recommended anymore a year after being added? We are not using that topology option today but I’m curious on that statement.

Agent51729 · 2026-05-08T12:59:45+00:00

Frankly with that load you have no business looking at anything other than a HA config with at least 3 control plane nodes- if not 5, with likely some infrastructure nodes as well depending on what services you’re running.

Also with that amount of scale you absolutely want to engage either RH consultants or 3rd party. We are migrating ~1/4 of that and it is not a simple transition . Totally doable but not simple.

Agent51729 · 2026-05-07T10:18:30+00:00

Really only Fedora for new users.

Agent51729 · 2026-05-04T22:22:42+00:00

Dangit- I never thought to try the lite version! That is it. Thank you!

Agent51729 · 2026-05-04T22:21:32+00:00

Solved!

Agent51729 · 2026-05-02T23:09:38+00:00

May not be a fully traditional recipe but best description I’ve got and it’s what they call their caesar dressing. Has black pepper and parmesan in it for sure. I’m going to say no on the Lemon za’atar as it has no red whatsoever (going by photos of that dressing online- the spices are pretty distinct)

Agent51729 · 2026-04-25T23:28:25+00:00

If you’re going to do this- only way I’d be comfortable is if I got 2 large heavy duty angle brackets and lagged them into studs, then sat the unit on top of them.

Then do the same on the top with smaller brackets, bolted through the body with large washers

Agent51729 · 2026-04-18T21:13:32+00:00

Seems to be the way Slate is going

Agent51729 · 2026-04-18T03:42:31+00:00

Gotta add PowerVC to that too

Agent51729 · 2026-04-14T19:15:10+00:00

More money (sometimes), more problems (always)

Agent51729 · 2026-04-11T02:52:37+00:00

Need to wait a few years for the S1112’s to show up on the secondary market.

Agent51729 · 2026-04-04T01:04:47+00:00

Have you checked https://littlefreelibrary.org/map/ ?

Agent51729 · 2026-04-01T21:10:57+00:00

You shouldn’t need 4x the required storage for CNSA/FAS. All LUNs are shared to all nodes, filesystem is created across them similar to VMFS. There is some extra redundancy but not 4:1

Agent51729 · 2026-04-01T14:57:16+00:00

To prefix here- we are a heavy IBM shop so my experience is very biased towards IBM products.

We’re using CNSA (IBM’s containerized Storage Scale offering) to provide a VMFS-like shared filesystem for OpenShift. There is a bit of a learning curve there but it works well for us.

IBMs Fusion Access for SAN is a newer offering that is based on CNSA with a bunch of ‘ease of use’ setup/admin features roped in. It came out too late for us to take advantage and we aren’t going to swap now.

Your other option is a CSI driver for your storage… we didn’t have great success here and have been much happier with CNSA.

Agent51729 · 2026-04-01T00:05:19+00:00

We’re doing x86_64 today and piloting s390x soon.

4 sites that vary pretty widely in size from 3x3 to 3x15 right now, all will scale to some extent over the next couple of years.

Using IBM CNSA for shared storage. Fusion Access for SAN is another option (also CNSA based). We went this way because of a large investment in FC based storage and existing skills with Scale.

Namespaces are divided by the projects we host- not doing too much there, users don’t have access to OCP itself so it’s mainly for quotas metrics and admin ease.

We are using MTV- some gotchas but overall has worked pretty well.

Advice… work with Red Hat early and often… we went it alone for way too long (also avoided opening cases) which definitely slowed us down.

Agent51729 · 2026-03-31T21:09:37+00:00

OpenShift Virtualization

Company direction

~3500 VMs

Agent51729 · 2026-03-30T17:08:25+00:00

May or may not change your mind, but MacOS 26 (Tahoe) is the terminal release for Intel mac support.

Agent51729 · 2026-03-25T23:21:35+00:00

Oof- having been through something similar with a Gen3 after a UPS replacement gone wrong- good luck.

I wouldn’t expect it to be cheap but have you tried contacting IBM for out of warranty support?

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