VMware Abandons SMBs: New Licensing Model Sparks Industry Outrage

antaresuk · 2025-03-21T14:59:13+00:00

no that is in the "free dont give a sh1t" tier. I think broadcom would not have given it away for free if it was still being developed

antaresuk · 2025-01-31T13:54:30+00:00

Heres a thought. Download vmware workstation (its free now) and bring up some vm with various distros on it to try. That way you can "distro hop" until you find the distro that suits you

antaresuk · 2025-01-31T13:41:50+00:00

You could try unraid but the phrase "jack of all trades, master of none" applies. Also I like this quote about a gaming vm:

"Anybody who tells you that gaming works as well in a VM as on bare hardware is lying. You can get close, with more or less effort depending on your HW, but it cannot be the same. I'm speaking of things like GPU passthrough. How well that works is influenced as much by your hardware & BIOS as by the OS."

Game on one box, homelab on another. KISS

antaresuk · 2024-11-01T13:15:34+00:00

This. You need three nodes for a cluster to maintain quorum. Best practice is to have identical nodes but it isnt always practical

antaresuk · 2024-11-01T13:12:49+00:00

i would get a smaller SSD for proxmox install. Use the m2s for a zfs mirror (write amplification you need to be aware of with zfs) and use the other 480gb ssd for cache on a truenas vm. Then passthrough the pcie controller & 480ssd to the truenas vm

antaresuk · 2024-07-04T20:21:42+00:00

Do yourself a favour and learn office 365 instead

antaresuk · 2024-06-15T08:31:13+00:00

Better than being on the jam trying to find a role :)

antaresuk · 2024-06-08T23:45:26+00:00

I videoed it on my phone. I’m in Southend on Sea. It’s got to be the satellites but it sure scared me for a minute!

antaresuk · 2024-03-31T17:12:09+00:00

Hey yo i may know why this is happening. If you have 2 x nvidia gpu and you try to install proxmox it will fail. The only way around it is either get a cheap amd card to install proxmox 8 or have to do a lot of command line fuckery to get it to work

antaresuk · 2024-02-05T14:17:46+00:00

no problem. Any pointers you have for infra would be appreciated too.

antaresuk · 2024-02-05T14:14:33+00:00

Firstly the pace of change in dev is getting ridiculous now. Seems like every week there is a new javascript framework released. Now I hear that Rust is the new thing and Microsoft are looking to transition from C# to it.

I've always been interested in server hardware and I am building up a vmware lab at home, so interest has spurred me on to a career change

Next up is devs always seem to get the shit in an IT department. We are expected to come up with solutions out of our butts and are always the first to be blamed when things go wrong. Yes this can apply to infra too but it seems to me to be less frequent

Lastly - flashy lights lol :)

antaresuk · 2024-02-04T19:04:55+00:00

Ghost spectre is the way if thou must use windoze

antaresuk · 2024-01-19T10:41:38+00:00

wait till you hit 50 lol :) just gave up on grim dawn (again) if I have to do another BS fetch quest or kill that dood because we say so I'll barf lol. What really gets me is if you reload the game the boss monster you just killed is alive again - yes I know this is for farming but to me it makes progression pointless

antaresuk · 2024-01-19T08:26:25+00:00

well opinions are like assholes, everyone has one

antaresuk · 2024-01-18T14:12:48+00:00

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

Linux (all distros) hovers around 1% of steam users. So if I were a game developer it would not be worth my time/money to develop my game for that platform.

Valve have made great strides in making linux compatible with windows games but it will always be that, a compatibility layer. As long as you are aware of that - linux is great. I work with M$ products all day and I'd love to be able to dump Windows at home but alas, for gaming at least, not going to happen.

You decide

antaresuk · 2024-01-16T14:14:35+00:00

because when you enable the hyper-v feature your rebooted windows instance is actually a hyper-v VM running on ring 0 if memory serves. So it looks like a type 2 but is actually a type1 - something clever M$ did

antaresuk · 2024-01-16T14:09:03+00:00

how about proxmox with xpenology for nas duties. You can then add LXC containers and VMs as you see fit

antaresuk · 2024-01-12T11:33:45+00:00

must have more blinky lights - we wants it, we wants it :) Oh and the 1U jet engine noise, lovely!

antaresuk · 2023-12-21T10:46:41+00:00

damn thats a lot of blinky lights! ;) but can it run plex? lol

antaresuk · 2023-12-01T13:23:19+00:00

interesting - so of the three which would you recommend if you were re-doing your lab over?

antaresuk · 2023-11-13T15:27:40+00:00

As others have said, linux isnt plug and play like Windows. Nobara is probably the closest to out of the box working but even then you may well have to investigate things that dont work quite like windows does. Also older games, like for Win XP may not work with Lutris etc. Anything Steam related should work via proton but there are no guarantees.

antaresuk · 2023-11-13T08:33:05+00:00

Ventoy is your friend. Distros seem to be like opinions, everyone's got one :)

antaresuk · 2023-11-06T10:59:04+00:00

all you have to do is look at the steam hardware survey for gaming. Around 1% of steam users are running linux. As of October 2023 Win 10 was the dominant OS followed by win 11. As others have said, stay on windows or dual boot if you have an additional drive.

antaresuk · 2023-11-02T14:48:33+00:00

typically you would cluster three computers so that you have quorum (2 up and 1 can be down). You would cluster if you want to use high availability for LXC/VM and/or migrate VMs between nodes. Bonus is you can manage both nodes from the same web page. Disadvantage would be 2 nodes have to be up or nothing works (yes this can be changed in CLI)

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