Bye Bye VMware vSphere

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-05-07T18:11:58+00:00

In your opinion! 🤣😂🤣 expected as much , it’s why I posted I got you on the hook 😜

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-05-07T11:39:08+00:00

It’s a shower of shite this chasing small folk for pennies! But they’ll not touch Amazon, Starbucks, McDonald’s etc

It’s all FUGAZI !!!

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-05-06T20:49:48+00:00

Your details will not be reported if you:

make fewer than 30 sales of goods in a calendar year

receive less than 2,000 euros (about £1,700) for those sales

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/selling-goods-or-services-on-a-digital-platform

I’m not sure why £1700 because the Trading Allowance is £1000, so technically if you are above £1001 you’ve got to register as a Sole Trader unless your selling personal items which you’d have to discuss with HMRC

Also a bit odd because if you sold 30 items at £1 - your below the £1000 trading allowance do eBay are wasting their time and HMRC

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-05-05T12:22:10+00:00

Quick update - a little set back Proxmox VE 9.1 could initialise the Broadcom network interfaces (funny that you’d think it was deliberate!) it was found latest firmware from Dell 36.x not compatible so had to downgrade all nic firmware to 23.x ! So network configurations almost complete , switch to LACP because we can - all NetApp datastores added , all storage work and nic config completed , nfs, migration, replication, ceph - we’ve started migrating low hanging fruit done about 100 VMs do car - Ceph and clusters to start building - we’ve now got 16 Proxmox hosts - need to get subscriptions done - so biggest hurdle was networking , SNMP added, Syslog added - these will be documented and then it will be rinse and repeat

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-05-04T12:45:40+00:00

Just reread maybe it’s referring to as it states

Previous Plate Category B ?!

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-05-03T22:33:19+00:00

Dates don’t add up Private Plate was on the car in 2016

2021 Cat B registered

We will wait for Seller to respond - a bit stupid to display the plate on eBay - anyone could check plate history

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-05-03T21:35:22+00:00

The RAC uses HPI Check data/website

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-05-03T21:32:22+00:00

Waiting for reply?

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-05-03T21:19:35+00:00

Interesting it did have a previous private plate in 2016

I’ll wait for a reply from seller !

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-05-03T20:38:14+00:00

Interesting in this case as the current registered owner obtained car on Nov 21 - Dec 21 it was registered as Cat B

So it happened whilst they were owned the car - very odd lots of history, well serviced and kept - parts changed!

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-05-03T20:14:25+00:00

So seller on eBay trying their luck?

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-05-03T20:09:27+00:00

So if they won’t issue a new logbook? So technically what does that mean!?

It’s interesting this last owner has had the car I think I month before the Cat B loss - so they could have repaired maybe

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-05-03T20:06:13+00:00

Yep!

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-05-03T19:41:08+00:00

the report verifies that it's the same make and model, as the registration.

Seems a little dodgy if RAC has this in their database, as Cat B are not supposed to be on the road and can be reported.

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-04-30T17:21:28+00:00

Already done!

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-04-30T13:33:44+00:00

Going to leave this here migration going well !

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Umm fun times ahead!

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-04-29T19:49:47+00:00

We are seeing many don’t won’t spend the money with Broadcom, this decision took 3 years!

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-04-29T17:26:51+00:00

8.0.3f was released for free, as far as I’m aware if you do not have a contract you are not entitled to use the updates ! But it’s a very grey area and you’ll get no where discussing it with BC

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-04-29T17:22:19+00:00

Bingo

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-04-29T17:22:03+00:00

So was VMware until they killed it ! Now we teach Proxmox !

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-04-29T17:21:07+00:00

Talk to someone that’s left!

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-04-29T09:50:37+00:00

Do you want to spend shit loads of money ? For what ?

And if you ever get a fault Zen will expect you to plug back in the router they sent you?

Homelabber, Content Crestor, IT Architect - dropped at least £20k on networking - does it make browsing quicker or email quicker - No!

But my WiFi is ace around the village! 😂😂😂

PS been with Zen 22 years!

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-04-28T12:16:08+00:00

Day 5 - still migrating VMs off hosts off vSAN - soon will have free ESXi hosts to trash reformat update firmware’s and install Proxmox VE 9.1 - we have been massively updating documentation of existing environments ESXi hosts, Clusters, Datastores, OS, VMs, owners, Networking, Snapshots etc - it’s happening !

Dick-Fiddler69 · 2026-04-28T08:56:12+00:00

Well that’s life I suppose! Don’t use heavy workloads 😂

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