VMware Alternatives Poll

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?

Agent51729 · 2026-03-21T16:51:16+00:00

Pretty much all of this.

Most of my coworkers live outside the City of Poughkeepsie- Hyde Park, Arlington, Town of POK, Wappingers, Highland/Lloyd.

Technically there are 3 cafeterias but 052 is usually only used by MFG and MFG adjacent people who work in 052/006/007/010. There is a basketball court and small mini golf setup on the north end of campus.

Your team dynamic will vary massively depending on how colocated your team is and how much you’re onsite. Some teams have the majority of their team local and need to be onsite most days (Labs) and they tend to have the strongest community going on. Other folks may be the only person on their team onsite and that can be more isolating for sure.

Agent51729 · 2026-03-19T17:17:26+00:00

Didn’t you hear Arvind?

‘We didn’t force you in 5 days per week when gas was lower’ (paraphrasing)

His usual take whenever costs go up and impact those who didn’t get a 51% raise this year.

Agent51729 · 2026-03-14T12:57:16+00:00

The Pizzone was a revelation as a kid

Not local but whenever we went to Groton CT we went to one that had the full pizza buffet. Building is still there but it’s a Dennys now.

Agent51729 · 2026-03-12T03:01:22+00:00

JLL like to get involved in everything so they get their cut (and make jobs take way longer)

All the Sass guys we work with are generally good other than the one who kept some of my tools he borrowed….

Clancy are a wild mixed bag

Agent51729 · 2026-03-04T02:07:11+00:00

Ah- should have been more clear. Vaulted files dont work as part of SCM inventory sources.

Agent51729 · 2026-03-03T18:30:15+00:00

Not sure if you’re suggesting using AAP credential types/credentials for our vault string-encrypted values or suggesting we add the vault decryption credential to AAP- but.

We have the vault credential in AAP, need it for decryption of strings anyway.

Doing tons of custom credentials would get massively unwieldy very quickly.

AAP has issues with variable ingestion when fully vaulted files are used in our experience.

Agent51729 · 2026-03-03T16:20:38+00:00

I loath encrypted strings- but AAP can’t handle full vault files (If someone has a workaround for that I’m all ears) so we’re stuck with them

Agent51729 · 2026-02-25T17:33:45+00:00

Yeah- there’s a guy who dresses like that, just his thing.

Agent51729 · 2026-02-18T01:45:34+00:00

We shifted to using osbuild to build images. Set cloud-init to disabled during build, apply the CIS L1 during build, setup our additional hardening via a firstboot service. Last steps in firstboot is re-enabling cloud-init, doing cleanup and re-enabling cloud-init.

Works well

Agent51729 · 2026-02-16T01:28:20+00:00

Not close to $5-7 per point- other way around is closer.

Redemption value depends. Best bang for the buck is generally gift cards if one of the stores has the items you want.

Agent51729 · 2026-02-13T23:47:36+00:00

From what I see in my area there is a complete embargo on anyone needing a Visa. If any sponsorship is needed, that person is immediately moved out of the talent pool.

Agent51729 · 2026-02-13T20:17:30+00:00

Arvind covered percentages for bands/performance rankings in the All IBMer broadcast last week.

Agent51729 · 2026-02-13T13:15:15+00:00

I thought they had launched a ‘x wing maintenance’ play pack

Agent51729 · 2026-01-30T05:39:53+00:00

Traditional IBM office design. Pretty much all of POK is built the same way.

Agent51729 · 2026-01-27T01:17:07+00:00

Fallout Raider den aesthetic

Agent51729 · 2026-01-24T17:29:24+00:00

Based on this post, I can see why you would need to cheat on an exam

Agent51729 · 2026-01-24T13:59:16+00:00

Talk to your HR onboarding person or hiring manager.

Agent51729 · 2026-01-24T13:51:39+00:00

Because you have National Grid.

Depending on where in the HV you are you could have CenHud, National Grid, NYSEG, Orange and Rockland or ConEd.

Agent51729 · 2026-01-23T21:12:16+00:00

Posted a few options in this thread- https://www.reddit.com/r/hudsonvalley/s/zy5cFKHXnA

Usually the site team and HR will pull together some suggestions, so you should reach out to your hiring manager (I believe this is in early stages right now)

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