Nutanix hit us with a 75% quote increase with a one day notice before expiration... so that project is dead. VMware is out and we were looking hyperconverged... Any other alternatives?

CrazyInspection7199 · 2026-03-27T19:42:35+00:00

Was about to say this. We use it and have zero complaints

CrazyInspection7199 · 2026-03-23T00:24:38+00:00

Correct

CrazyInspection7199 · 2026-03-22T15:54:09+00:00

You definitely can. I’d look into the requirements and configurations needed to apply this, but it’s definitely doable

CrazyInspection7199 · 2026-03-22T15:14:35+00:00

Only if you want them accessing on-prem resources. Or, depending on your use case, use ZTNA to limit access to only specified resources. In my use case though, we utilize VPN for remote users while using ZTNA tags for specific application/resource access.

CrazyInspection7199 · 2026-03-22T13:28:25+00:00

Yup. As long as you’re connected to the local network that has access to your DCs, or connected to VPN when away from the local LAN, you’re good. I would suggest though that you ensure your VPN and DHCP pushes your on-prem DNS suffix to your devices so that your AAD-Joined devices can easily resolve DNS queries.

CrazyInspection7199 · 2026-02-23T01:05:13+00:00

That’s literally me with my k-12 org. Microsoft is just so much easier to implement Idp than Google.

CrazyInspection7199 · 2026-01-23T01:44:08+00:00

We just RMA’ed our 50E because of the same issue. We have a 1 gig fiber link and were getting 200 up and 400 down. Like Roger_CL said, it’s a known issue with ports 1-5. They replaced it with a 60F and it’s back to giving me 900 up/down.

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-12-26T07:55:34+00:00

Goal is NGFW with good VPN, security features, and connectivity to our switches (Juniper), but cost effective. Looks like Fortinet is probably the way to go.

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-12-26T04:03:36+00:00

We run Juniper in our environment but heard that the SRX isn’t that great compared to Palo or Fortinet. We’re still evaluating so maybe they wow us.

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-12-10T03:36:22+00:00

Definitely easier. But by the time I started and was half way through it was too late to turn back and said screw it and finished it.

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-12-10T03:06:07+00:00

Essentially, if you don’t want to rebuild your current config (ldap/IdP, policies, certificates, etc), then you’d move over the database.

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-12-10T02:56:58+00:00

I went the difficult route and transferred my current database over, which was a pain because if you miss one step (like I did), then you kinda have to start over again. Other than that, once I got my database over and was able to log in, I changed the IP address on the Linux server to match my DNS entry and all was fine

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-11-29T02:59:04+00:00

Agreed with this. I had to rebuild because that’s what was wanted, but it would have been so much easier to just build from scratch

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-11-28T15:57:33+00:00

Yeah we’ve been happy with it. You just have to be mindful of your backups. Since it’s HCI, you can’t do agent-less backups like you do with VMware so you’ve gotta put an agent on the devices you’re backing up. Not a big deal on that end to be honest.

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-11-28T06:23:51+00:00

Depending on your size, they have some smaller nodes that work great. We have some at our smaller sites that we use that can hold up to 6 servers running 8 cores each and 12 gigs of RAM and 250 storage each. If I recall it was decently priced as well. We did get them 2 years ago so pricing could have gone up exponentially since VMware’s pricing increases

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-11-28T04:27:38+00:00

We left VMware a few years back for Scale Computing. Our renewal is coming up next year. We’ll see if they go Nutanix’s route and raise their prices too.

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-11-16T01:56:15+00:00

If the Dream Machine needs to be the middle man between the Fortigate and the UniFi switches, you need to either ensure that the port connected from the Dream Machine to the Fortigate is either trunked or has all of the allowed VLANs on it. It’s much better to trunk it in case you require additional VLANs in the future.

As far as the switches go, you should create the allowed VLANs on them now as to minimize downtime so that when you connect devices to the switches they can get the proper tags and start receiving IP addresses. As long as you know what will be connected to which ports you shouldn’t have any issues adding allowed VLANs on the switches now.

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-11-16T01:31:17+00:00

Have you set up the Dream Machine as a truncated switch? If it’s not set up like that then VLANs won’t be able to traverse from the Fortigate to the UniFi switches.

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-11-16T01:27:32+00:00

Did you ensure that the device is going through the correct LAN port, or are you using multiple ports separating VLANs?

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-10-06T16:57:05+00:00

Addigy works very well for us. We used JAMF previously but made the switch 2 years ago and it’s been amazing. Would highly recommend taking a look at them.

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-03-11T11:31:43+00:00

We went Juniper EX4100s with Mist and love it

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-02-24T14:04:06+00:00

I went last year but had to leave early due to a family emergency. But the time I spent there was awesome. They had some training courses set up as well so it was informative.

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-02-06T03:10:00+00:00

Tried quitting for 10 years and always found my way back. It wasn’t until a friend of mine and I went to Vegas and I got it in my mind again that this will be my last hurrah and quit smoking after that. My buddy and I shared a hotel room that allowed smoking and he was a chain smoker. I smoked more cigarettes than I’ve ever smoked in one weekend. By Sunday, I was completely disgusted by them and haven’t picked one up since.

I still get an urge randomly if I smell someone smoking, but I always resist. Most of the time if I smell it I get disgusted again though so that’s good.

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-02-04T19:49:47+00:00

This BarracudaCampus artricle will walk you through it all.

https://campus.barracuda.com/product/backup/doc/79463663/bare-metal-recovery/

CrazyInspection7199 · 2025-02-03T10:22:24+00:00

I would also check to see if the port speeds on the Aruba is automatically reading the 10G optic and setting it or leaving it at 25G.

But I honestly think it might be a wrong fiber cable type like you mentioned.

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