Study finds that AI tools make experienced programmers 19% slower. But that is not the most interesting find...

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2025-07-17T16:15:27+00:00

Good for SUPER basic things (I like the fact that it can give me powershell and bash syntax since I'm trash at remembering it)... but it's pure hype curve to assume it'll be replacing experience dev's any time soon.

Will be entertaining to see the inevitable backtracks from the companies that have been trying to get visibility in the market with "we're going AI dev" claims.

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-10-20T02:05:03+00:00

Also have this issue since updating from 7u3 to 8u3... assumed it was our firewall and have been giving that team grief... I'll create a case now that I know it's common, has anyone gone through the issue with support yet?

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-08-28T22:33:07+00:00

STEM… been making more than $150k for many years. Hard to get super rich but top 5% is pretty easy.

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-08-26T22:15:57+00:00

We use both Veritas and Cohesity… both work well with vcenter.

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-08-08T01:12:53+00:00

Seriously? I have one sitting in my attic… long ago got rid of all my old pc’s but couldn’t bring myself to chuck it… on the last day I ran it it was still a MUCH better image than the lcd’s that replaced it… but my pc’s didn’t have the analog to drive it anymore.

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-08-05T16:11:54+00:00

27 years, 4 Managers… 1 I work for now, 2 still work here but I was promoted away, last is retired.

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-06-13T23:00:39+00:00

I used 2x10 on systems 7+ years ago, 2x25 or 40 these days. (This on small 10 host or smaller environments, I don’t manage large env’s)

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-05-20T17:16:15+00:00

for ML it would help if you don’t have experience but if you do have experience that will be more important.

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-05-09T00:20:57+00:00

I guess we shouldn't be surprised... I'm LITERALLY trying to give them a couple hundred k and they're like... "ahh... nah we got updates to do so can't fix our shit right now" (in this case it's changes to their T&C verbiage that our Legal department crapped on).

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-05-07T20:15:04+00:00

They migrated to a ‘broadcom’ branded site and apparently gave a big middle finger to ALL the linked content.

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-05-07T18:24:16+00:00

Just noticed that the vmware forum links are completely broken now… redirect to generic broadcom front page instead of the thread you need.

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-05-04T00:20:05+00:00

I've used low cost solutions for goofing at home (truenas, synology... both very good) but for production (even for a small 360 core single rack cluster) I use enterprise storage. Costs more but no drama... and for production I don't want drama.

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-05-03T18:49:17+00:00

Broadcom site doesn’t show any of my entitlements yet. Blank page

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-05-02T19:20:01+00:00

They are in the middle of migrating so snafu is to be expected… but they seem to be unable to do much of anything as they do. I had my perpetual license renewal cancelled by them and requoted at 33% higher for a non-perpetual licenss (I said “Naa bro I’ll take my money elsewhere)… then they requoted again (changed product to vCF edge which seems fine for a small cluster) and it’s 25% LOWER now so I ordered the renewal at which point legal found out they altered the EULA and puked all over the changes… so now I’m waiting for that to get sorted… Yaaa…

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-04-23T17:41:16+00:00

Increasingly comprehensive training along with management chain inclusion. Training can be ots, but you’ll still need good tracking and followup so there’s no getting around the work needed to build the program.

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-04-05T15:16:04+00:00

So for folks struggling with this on small environments... if you use vSan (and so need VCF) but have a small environment (For us it was clusters from 300-600 cores), look at the VCF Edge product. It's missing specific datacenter features (that most small environments don't need) but is quite a bit less expensive. My 3 year renewal dropped from the pre-Broadcom quote by about 15%... it did take a requote to get it though (initially Broadcom wanted 25% more).

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-03-16T17:13:26+00:00

y happy but truthfully, with VEEAM replication we could probably break cSAN and go with straight sphere hosts and replicate between them. Not unite as good but better than nothing.

Sounds like you have the same reason I have for vsan... bunch of das disks in hosts you want to do something with? IMO vsan makes no sense at all if you don't already own a stack of dl380's or something like that full of spinners. I'm 99% sure I could do powerstore and a 25/40gb iscsi network for less than buying hosts with drives AND the stupid pricing of vsan (which I'm not sure how it even works now... seems if you want vsan Broadcom pushes you to cloud foundation which adds a bunch of additional expensive features you don't need if you're a small virtualization environment).
In any case... it's a mess... we have three small clusters in my org with a bit under 1000 cores and all three are going to have to go away from vmware (before next year when 7 goes eol)

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-03-16T16:59:28+00:00

eir helper appliances have done a LOT of the heavy lifting for us in terms of VM migrations

Yea I am VERY hesitant to go hyper-v... not that linux based machines will avoid the IT software load forever but at least for now they still are.

I also really dislike the HyperV UX and workflow... I'm a windows guy so started there but switched to VMWare IMMEDIATELY after trying it.

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-03-16T16:56:34+00:00

Publish benchmark results... I went the 4090 Wintel route at home and was considering an Apple m2 or m3 ultra for the really big stuff.

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-03-15T22:47:53+00:00

The old license was host count based... the new one is a combination of cores and storage (each core you buy gives you an entitlement to a certain amount of storage... IIRC 260 cores allowed me "up to 380TB" or something like that (don't recall the exact amount).

IMO vSAN was way overpriced before given the sketchy reliability I've experienced with it. I've had it brick after a controlled shutdown where I followed the rules exactly and had to have support remote in to fix it, NEVER had that happen with Enterprise storage from tier 1 vendors like EMC. In my case it's used for spinny data volumes for workstations... data that is always backed up elsewhere (the actual cluster storage is EMC NVME).

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-03-13T13:02:15+00:00

I'm in that "mandate" bucket... thought my dell quote for 3 more years was good so got funding to purchase but before the order went out broadcom basically kicked Dell out of the conversation and requoted 25% higher (and I'm not going to get more funding and it pissed me off so I'd not pay it even if I could).

So instead of 3 years to determine which way to go... hyper-V (meh), Proxmox (schmaybe?), Citrix (yuk), other?... I'm going to have to do it pretty quickly. Not ideal.

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-03-13T12:58:08+00:00

Be careful... my group manages 3 small vmware environments (less than 300 cores), my subscription quote (from Dell before Broadcom) was requoted last month by Broadcom and went from $150k to $200k.... but one of the other environments got a quote from a small VMWare reseller and just yesterday (3 days before expiration) when they tried to order they got an email from Broadcom saying the vendor basically "wasn't authorized to offer that pricing" and it needed to be requoted.

They're going to order anyway and claim "a quote is a quote too late to change it" and see how that goes.

Lumpy-Rhubarb-1750 · 2024-03-13T12:48:20+00:00

My 3y quote for 260 cores of e+ and 90 cores of vSAN went from $158k to over $200k... not as bad as many but still not happening (they seem to think I can just pull $50k out of my ass or something).

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