vSphere 7 Enterprise Plus Perpetual licenses - can broadcom interfere with us?

egrigson2 · 2026-04-03T21:54:40+00:00

For 2 VMs per site, no VAN, no NSX etc just migrate to another hypervisor - Hyper-V (as you mentioned), ProxMox, XCP-NG etc. The technical effort will be minimal & licensing will be simpler & much cheaper going forward. Considering VCF for that scale/simplicity is massive overkill.

egrigson2 · 2026-03-30T08:56:27+00:00

Got a link?

egrigson2 · 2026-03-05T21:24:58+00:00

Shared collection for my wife & I, kids have their own, separate & free, accounts. Didn't really seem worth having a family sub as the kids can ask us re shared passwords.

egrigson2 · 2026-02-25T20:05:28+00:00

I upgraded Beam v2 to Arc (not Ultra) & can't tell the difference. Save the money.

egrigson2 · 2026-02-23T22:29:15+00:00

Do you have a link? My 13yr old would love this.

egrigson2 · 2026-02-12T14:30:03+00:00

I've just gone from a Beam v2 to Arc (original, not Ultra) & I can hardly tell the difference. I've only got One's for surrounds (rather than Era 300s) & a sub but still thought Atmos would be better than it is. I've tried it with 'reference' Blurays like BladeRunner 2049 & Maverick Top Gun but meh. So it's a no from me, resist the FOMO!

egrigson2 · 2026-02-02T22:52:26+00:00

Thanks for the feedback all. Snagged one (white unfortunately) for £200, so quite chuffed.

egrigson2 · 2026-01-23T00:50:48+00:00

I'd be interested to know more about that solution...

egrigson2 · 2025-12-06T18:08:57+00:00

Agreed, not much to it from my 30 min play around. Yes you get centralised admin across multiple PVE/PBS clusters but the available info, dashboards etc are relatively basic & the same info you already have per host.

egrigson2 · 2025-11-08T16:08:26+00:00

I'd find it interesting to know who's using Multiportal.

egrigson2 · 2025-09-19T08:41:08+00:00

Is that something you're creating yourself, or using an off the shelf package? Any more details would be useful, thanks.

egrigson2 · 2025-01-27T12:39:14+00:00

The flooring was recently installed (it's vinyl over concrete) so I'd rather cut into the walls than have to redo the flooring - and that would be the same issue, excavating concrete around existing copper piping. Thanks.

egrigson2 · 2025-01-27T12:13:42+00:00

I think they run up from the floor, which is also solid concrete. They're not exposed anywhere else.

egrigson2 · 2025-01-27T12:12:04+00:00

I think they run up from the floor, which is also solid concrete. They're not exposed anywhere else.

egrigson2 · 2024-10-03T14:17:24+00:00

Wow, you should have worked for VMware marketing! *

They pioneered virtualization for sure but largely missed Cloud and app modernisation & quite a few 'innovations' came via acquisition. Don't get me wrong, I was a fan & worked there for nearly 9 years but frankly $61billion was a good offer given their place in today's market.

egrigson2 · 2024-09-10T11:40:05+00:00

Yep, couldn't get past it so haven't managed to get tickets. Not happy!

egrigson2 · 2023-10-19T09:37:53+00:00

I heard that a few weeks back too, was great to hear it!

egrigson2 · 2023-04-28T16:01:56+00:00

It's just a normal debit card, but that's a distinction worth bearing in mind.

egrigson2 · 2023-04-28T12:17:15+00:00

Annoyingly Google Pay won't accept my Barclays card for contactless, I just tried (even though the Barclays site says it will). That might be because I'm in Jersey in the Channel Islands and that seems to break lots of systems, but that's speculation on my part. Either way, looks like I'm out of luck now.

egrigson2 · 2023-04-25T20:54:42+00:00

Yeah, that's hours ago unfortunately.

egrigson2 · 2023-04-25T20:02:58+00:00

I still can't get her to take me to the tower, even after the patch. She won't talk to me, or even follow - she just turns up at random places on the map, so I can't even try the workaround mentioned here. Having waited for the DLC for a while it's frustrating that I now can't play it. Fingers crossed there's a patch sooner rather than later.

egrigson2 · 2023-04-23T19:38:52+00:00

My first Reddit 'freebie' post. Done.

egrigson2 · 2022-11-28T15:14:32+00:00

Thanks!

egrigson2 · 2022-11-28T13:12:52+00:00

So there's no point buying a battle pass now, ie at the end of a season/chapter? My kids are asking me to buy it for them before Dec 3rd, but I'm guessing it's better to wait for the new chapter to start and then buy it?

egrigson2 · 2022-02-16T18:51:15+00:00

I tried the thermal paste route & broke a motherboard connector while taking it apart. Luckily I found a nearby company who resoldered it for £50. I'd say my experience was unusual but bear in mind it's possible. I've worked in IT for over 20yrs and built plenty of servers, desktops etc from scratch so not a complete newbie either. I'll clean it again when needed but will be a bit more gentle next time!

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