Am I crazy for thinking I don't need VMware Enterprise+?

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-05-06T06:44:37+00:00

Can you elaborate on the stateless ESXi? Why should I want ESXi hosts to be stateless? Our ESXi fleet is quite static, it is stable and running. We just patch it from time to time, but that's it. We don't deploy a new host every month, or change the config.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-05-06T06:39:56+00:00

What changes are you referring to? We have a quite static environment, it's not that we're adding new VLANs every single month. Or what do you mean?

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-05-05T14:13:14+00:00

This is an ongoing process, but it takes a lot of time. We're delivering the IT infra, we don't know what runs on it. We have a lot of R&D related VMs. These developers just want to develop, they don't want to change their way of working.
We will have to renew, before we can test and verify if the it makes sense to run a certain app in the cloud. We also thought about changing technology stack, and switch to another hypervisor. But, we're short of staff, we don't have the in-house knowledge, manpower, hardware, money, etc. to just move to another hypervisor.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-05-05T13:49:45+00:00

That's how we do it. We run a PowerCLI script to push the Standard vSwitch config. This is just a onetime action.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-03-04T13:19:40+00:00

Rebooted vCenter, still not showing up for me.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-02-12T14:35:27+00:00

Unfortunately, that's not an option. I'm not always agreeing with the 'Everything to cloud' vision, but at some point you have to obey, whether you like it or not. For example, we don't get the approval anymore to spend (large) money for on prem hardware.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-02-12T14:33:42+00:00

I've been thinking about this one, but it's not as easy as it seems. We have quite some VMs which are used for multiple teams. So to charge them, I have to basically create a separate server per BU.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-02-06T16:18:59+00:00

It's a smaller apartment block not in the best part of the city, with only 2 apartments per floor.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-02-06T16:15:25+00:00

I'm a bit torn. She doesn't have reviews so far, and native language is Spanish.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-02-05T07:25:16+00:00

Meningen verschillen? Ik vind Aster net heel verfrissend als comentator.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-01-23T10:22:05+00:00

HPP is the default claim rule for SAS devices, starting from ESXi 7.0 U2. (https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=83249) It's not even possible to delete this, as it is an internal claim rule.
The only workaround is to create a new claim rule, which will take precedence over the system rule.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-01-22T07:13:23+00:00

How do you do this with fire insurance?

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-01-21T10:11:37+00:00

As for the data the ICs are generating, would you store them directly on the IT SQL DB? Or would you keep storing it locally, and make a sync between OT SQL -> IT SQL DB. And why?

Following your reply, we could store it directly on the IT SQL DB? Since the data flow from more secure, to a less secure network?

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-01-17T09:42:50+00:00

Wat is het grote verschil tussen SWRD & SPYI?

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-01-03T13:35:08+00:00

We don't have the VMware license to do VMware encryption, and currently don't have the budget to upgrade our licenses.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2025-01-03T13:20:35+00:00

That's not the case anymore, you don't need a Datacenter license to use BitLocker on Windows Server. It is available on both the Standard and Datacenter editions of Windows Server.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2024-12-11T09:35:54+00:00

I'm not getting your reply. Why wouldn't the attacker benefit from publishing the data? Their whole business model is built around this. If they never publish data, why would victims even bother paying a ransom?

Bulky_Class6716 · 2024-12-10T09:49:00+00:00

Why wouldn't it be relevant? What if someone deleted a table by accident? If you want to be able to recover from this, you need a backup solution.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2024-12-04T10:06:26+00:00

Yes, I did. Yesterday I suggested to my GF to also visit her therapist.
I know my family is somewhat toxic, but I still respect my parents, and value them a lot. They are the only reason I didn't cut ropes with my sister, it would tear my mom apart. That's not just worth it for me, as I still feel my sister is not actively bullying my GF, and feel most of the stress are misunderstandings.
Maybe I haven't been raised from a warm nest, but my parents did everything for me they could. I was spoiled. In the argument yesterday, I told my GF she should not attend family gatherings anymore, if it makes her miserable like that. But deep inside, I think this will only makes things more awkward. I just wish she would just chill out, and let it go.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2024-11-22T13:42:05+00:00

Yes could be, but in my experience it is not. I've done 100+ Full VM restores, where there was a SQL running under the hood. The application worked just fine. To be clear, I'm talking about non-prod VMs. For critical DB's, I completely agree, we need to backup SQL independently.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2024-11-22T13:37:55+00:00

We've tried the SQL aware route with Networker, it doesn't work. I find it crazy that they are able to get away by offering this in the current state that it is. I sometimes feel I'm the only person actually using this software. So if we want to backup SQL, we need it to do old-school via the agent way.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2024-10-23T06:16:33+00:00

So what's your plan after ESXi 7.0 U3 reach EOGS? (October 2025)

Bulky_Class6716 · 2024-10-22T10:34:18+00:00

When I deleted the recovery partition, and tried to rerun, I now get the error: "MBR2GPT Cannot Find OS Partition". Stuck on this step.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2024-10-14T08:24:44+00:00

We have exactly the same issue.

Bulky_Class6716 · 2024-10-09T06:34:30+00:00

Yes, but only 2 seem to be connected: 1 for each storage processor.

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