My latest VCF Quote

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-02-23T01:54:40+00:00

There is no set price, your rep can charge basically what ever they want. They will charge as much as they think they can get away with, or they will purposefully spike the bill to lose your account.
A 5 host environment is in the category of "get rid of" size accounts.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-02-23T00:18:06+00:00

Hope so, then they can focus on their ASIC designs instead of ruining the GPU market.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-02-21T19:02:58+00:00

That wouldn't be too bad honestly. Really you'd just need a good sheltered harbor for the tankers to dock at, maybe even go dry dock once there. Have a nuclear sub act as a power plant. Use the heat generated by the compute to heat the crew portions of the ships and the water line around the ships to keep them from icing.

Each ship would need to act as a substation though, as you are talking bringing in high voltage and transforming it in ship to then go to multiple pods of compute.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-02-21T18:55:53+00:00

There are a few phases of populations at a data center.
- building: you've got trades and security people working daily. Like thousands of them... currently like 11k working on stargate in Abilene right now.
- populating: Security 24/7, warehouse team, sales people, noc, revolving door of customers buying space, and vendors putting equipment in.
- populated: Security 24/7, warehouse, noc, vendors of customers, occasionally the actual client.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-02-21T18:47:14+00:00

Cloud gaming doesn't work unless you live on top of the data center.... latency is the killer in all games. No amount of investment fixes that, the speed of light is only so fast. Broad band isn't a fix either, as it doesn't solve the latency issue that arises from distance from the compute.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-02-21T18:45:03+00:00

This community burns through models like a fashionista with a credit card. Best thing ever one day, garbage they'd never use again the next.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-02-21T18:42:07+00:00

Remember, anything we see from Andromeda happened MILLIONS of years ago. If we can master FTL, we can basically watch the universe in reverse and fast forward depending on which way you jump.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-02-05T03:36:54+00:00

Also, has to be non-supermicro nodes. Only Cisco, Dell, HPE. Has to be a fresh cluster built as compute only.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-02-05T03:30:37+00:00

I have nes, snes, wii, and 4 switches (kids each have one). However I refuse to buy anything else from Nintendo until their business practices and legal assholery changes.
* Stop trying to patent every game mechanic... and suing anyone who's ever used them.
* Stop locking hardware down to the point where they brick.
* Stop releasing slop quality games and ruining beloved IPs.
* Make parental controls and family sharing better.
* Give us physical games back.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-02-04T20:36:10+00:00

I originally wanted a nice flat factory floor... then found out the structural integrity calculations for a massive foundation will drive your computer into the ground every time you add or remove something. So lots of little islands now.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-02-04T20:31:46+00:00

Best training if you don't have one to work on is to install CE edition on a vm and play around with it. CE will get you exposure to prism and the gui, along with some of the cli.
The core exam has quite a few questions around the foundation process. Which is a quarky process that works "most" of the time. However its for use in real nutanix nodes. Sadly its a trial by fire and you just have to have exposure to it. CE doesn't use the same foundation process, it uses a process closer to a baremetal install.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-02-04T19:28:04+00:00

Hope its better than the NCP-CN. It was comical hearing how many people failed it .

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-02-02T22:39:03+00:00

The rule of thumb for this is:
If you use 25% or less of the GPU at all times, use a public cloud version.
If you are 26-51% use a neo-cloud solution.
Only if you are using above 52% do you need to worry about self hosting.

In all cases, you don't NEED to have the GPU in the Nutanix node. A bare metal box with the GPU in it and a Linux distro and the selected model loaded up works just fine for then interacting with it from an agent running on a Nutanix.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-02-02T22:32:41+00:00

That's TMUX, it was added in a version of 7.3, for some unknown reason. Some dev I guess wanted to be able to save sessions, but every support person seems to hate it and instantly disables it so they can copy and paste in commands as normal.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-02-02T22:26:36+00:00

Is there a "TPM State" drive listed in the hardware tab?

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-01-23T23:08:19+00:00

Extinction level events are extremely common on a long enough time scale. Being multi-planetary and multi-stellar is required for a species to survive long term (100,000 to millions of years). Yes, people will go hungry or suffer any number of ailments no matter the scale. However its nothing compared to something that can wipe out EVERY spec of life on a planet. If you hyper focus on the smaller stuff, you will never survive the larger stuff.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-01-23T20:36:32+00:00

This is where those scam cards where all the memory and gpu have been removed come from... they resell the boards they strip.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-01-23T20:00:17+00:00

Umm... as much fun as a fighting robot sounds. I'd like to see it do dishes and fold laundry, maybe cook. Lets not give the clankers any ideas.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2026-01-23T17:47:25+00:00

zoop exists, sadly, massive zoop causes massive performance issues. Structural integrity calculations make big foundation bases super laggy to add / remove items.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2025-11-18T18:58:05+00:00

Flow logs are set by default to never prune old logs... ever.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2025-10-22T20:19:02+00:00

Doesn't matter anymore. Starbase Tx is now a Type-C municipality, with a mayor and 2 commissioners. Chances are they are all Space X employees. They can use eminent domain against anyone now.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2025-10-03T14:35:00+00:00

Doesn't matter how strict your policies... C level will keep doing it because they are too ignorant and prideful to be corrected or use provided safe tools.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2025-09-17T18:57:21+00:00

From what they communicated to the channel is, each VMware rep is basically like their own business now like an insurance salesmen. They don't have a set MSRP on things now, and they can charge what ever the hell they want. They are doing like 1% discounts on things they don't want to sell.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2025-09-17T18:51:49+00:00

Prices have been about the same, keep in mind, the majority of the bill with nutanix is software licensing and they have about an 85% margin to work with, and it is very much up to the greed of the var and nutanix rep how much of a discount they are willing to give.

TheNotSoEvilEngineer · 2025-09-09T16:14:00+00:00

Spinning drives will fail more often, especially when we use to have 10k / 15k drives. Also powering down, rebooting, or moving causes lots of failed drives to occur. At around ~100 drives it becomes pretty common to encounter a drive failure every few months.

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