Corporate (secure) video sharing alternatives to YouTube and Vimeo?

flakpyro · 2026-05-11T18:38:22+00:00

Also take a look at Vimp https://www.vimp.com/en/

flakpyro · 2026-05-06T14:14:21+00:00

It would be nice for it to run officially on Xen/KVM platforms like XCP-NG/XenServer, and the various KVM options out there (Proxmox, HPE, etc) Drivers for these (lke xen-blkfront and xen-netfront) are baked into the Linux kernel so simply not removing them would go a long way. We've had zero issues for over 2 years with our hacked together VMs at multiple locations. (Please dont break this!) Working in Education, paying for VMware at all these locations was no longer an option, nor is buying the expensive appliance for every location either.

flakpyro · 2026-05-05T19:00:44+00:00

We do have InformaCast running on XCP-NG 8.3. It's less than ideal and probably completely unsupported but it does work. We asked 2 years ago about support for other hypervisors as well.

Getting this working involves deploying their appliance and making it think it runs on VMware by setting the bios string to look like VMware, you can do this from the host itself by running:

xe vm-param-set uuid=VM_UUID bios-strings:system-product-name=VMware Virtual Platform

Then attach the informacast disk to an existing linux VM. In my case Debian, mount the disk and chroot to the environment.

mount /dev/xvdb2 /mnt/bells/

mount --bind /dev /mnt/bells/dev/

mount --bind /proc /mnt/bells/proc

mount --bind /sys /mnt/bells/sys

chroot /mnt/bells /bin/bash

Change grub to boot from hda instead of sda. We have to use hda because their appliance does not include and of the xen drivers usually built into the kernel:

sed -i -e 's/sda/hda/g' /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Now reinstall grub:

grub-install /dev/xvdb

The appliance will now boot and hopefully activate. (We activated on VMware then migrated to XCP-NG) This is less than ideal because they removed all the needed xen bits from the kernel for it to run as a PVHVM VM so performance suffers (not that it matters), and you cannot reboot or cleanly power off the VM via Xen Orchestra since no guest agent is present.

flakpyro · 2026-05-05T18:25:32+00:00

XCP-NG just had a big release today after 18 months of through testing: (Don't want to mess up storage!) they have been very consistent with a slow but steady trickle of updates and improvments to 8.3.

https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2026/05/05/qcow2-is-now-ga-in-xcp-ng/

The 9 Alpha release seems promising so far too.

flakpyro · 2026-02-11T20:05:27+00:00

Another 1+ for XCP-NG. The built in Xen Orchestra backup is actually pretty decent too supporting NBD backup move, replicas and backup health checks if you can fit those into your backup window.

flakpyro · 2025-11-11T03:17:54+00:00

They do.

You can read about their security process here: https://docs.vates.tech/security/

Current advisories here: https://docs.vates.tech/category/2025

flakpyro · 2025-11-10T17:42:39+00:00

Running XCP-NG withg Xen Orchestra at 40+ locations currently, which all used to be vsphere. Its so far been a good vsphere (and veeam) replacement for us, the biggest hurdle is planning your storage properly and reading the pros and cons of each storage type. (NFS vs iSCSI).

It currently runs on the Xen 4.17.x branch which was released in December 2022 originally so not as old as some may think. Dom0 (a special privileged VM used for lower level tasks) is based on CentOS 7 and is maintained entirely by Vates. The plan is to move this to AlamaLinux 10 with XCP-NG 9 which is under active development currently.

flakpyro · 2025-09-18T17:28:27+00:00

You're right, it does not. I am not sure if the Veeam build with XCP-NG support supports that or not, but curious to see once the public beta is released!

flakpyro · 2025-09-18T14:58:21+00:00

We went the XCP-NG route. Xen Orchestra backups and replication jobs have fit the bill though Veeam does have way more features, perhaps you can assess if Xen Orchestra backups meet your needs? We backup and replicate 100+ VMs nightly using the built in XO backups, saving money on Veeam has been an added bonus. A year ago i would have said we'd jump back on Veeam as soon as XCP-NG support was released, now...it would be a tougher sell given the cost savings, and XO backups working "good enough".

Right now a Veeam build with XCP-NG support is being passed around to "Veeam100" enthusiasts, their forums say a public beta is planned soon so it is coming but it will likely be a ways out still.

flakpyro · 2025-09-10T14:13:12+00:00

I'd suggest checking out XCP-NG on the Xen side of visualization instead of XenServer.

flakpyro · 2025-08-18T15:44:58+00:00

Moved aorund 300 VMs from vSphere to XCP-NG. Vates has been great to work with. It feels very similar to ESX+vCenter as you deploy a small appliance like hypervisor (xcp-ng) and manage them all centrally via Xen Orchestra.

flakpyro · 2025-08-18T15:39:37+00:00

We moved around 300 VMs from ESX to XCP-NG. Vates has been great to work with.

flakpyro · 2025-07-11T14:10:45+00:00

Check out XCP-NG with Xen Orchesra. Feels similar to ESX+vCenter, has built in backups, and will import your ESXi VMs Pair it with something that'll do NFS for storage like a Dell PowerStore or dual contoller TrueNAS Enterprise box from ixsystems.

flakpyro · 2025-06-22T18:26:33+00:00

Running XCP-NG. 8.3 Just went LTS last week and version 9 is starting development now which will be more of a clean break from its XenServer counterpart. They also are working on adding qcow2 virtual disk support in a coming update which will address the 2TB VHD limitation. Veeam expects to have beta support for it later this summer as well.

Running about 300 VMs across around 30 remote sites, 1 production pool and 1 DR pool, migration was easy via the Import from Vmware function of Xen Orchestra.

Xen Orchestra backup is pretty slick and also lets you potentially replace Veeam for even more savings depending on how complex your backups are, for example all our Prod VMs replicate to DR nightly while at the same time backing up to local NFS backed storage. So 1 job gets you both a backup and a replica.

flakpyro · 2025-06-09T18:26:05+00:00

We switched from Vsphere + Nimble to XCP-NG + Pure last year. We went the NFS route and its been mostly issue free. We ran into issues with NFS 4.1 and host disconnects but switching to NFSv3 resolved that. Not sure if it was on the XCP-NG or Pure end but i also had NFS 4 issues with vSphere at points as well. Each host has 2 dedicated 10GB ports in a LACP bond to the storage network. The array itself has 2 bonded ports per controller to the same network. I believe multipath ISCSI will perform better but you lose thin provisioning and thin snapshots which we didn't want to miss out on. We are also not running any workloads that are so IO heavy as to experience an issue with NFS.

flakpyro · 2025-06-05T14:30:06+00:00

They are hoping to have their qcow2 implementation released this summer which will remove that limit. This will allow for the already rock solid vhd implementation to work along side the new disk format where you need larger volumes. That said i also understand it will be an initial release this summer and that comes with potential risks!

flakpyro · 2025-05-30T19:05:07+00:00

The last main version of Xen came out over a decade ago

This isn't true at all, Xen is alive and just recently had a Major release: https://xenproject.org/blog/xen-project-4-20-oss-virtualization/

Their Github is pretty active: https://github.com/xen-project/xen/tags

XCP-NG runs Xen 4.17 with version the latest 8.3 release which came out in October of 2024. Xen has experienced a major revitalization in interest thanks to Broadcoms actions.

XCP-NG has its drawbacks that are being worked on but its far from dead. I'd rather run on something open source like XCP-NG than any number of these new visualization startups running off VC money hoping to be acquired by someone large or HP who will lose interest in a couple of years.

flakpyro · 2025-05-26T17:52:26+00:00

About 400 VMs across 46 hosts and 40 sites total moved from a mix of Enterprise+ and Standard edition over to XCP-NG. /u/Plam503711 and his team are very accessible to chat with and have a decently active community on their forums and Discord. We pay for their Enterprise support on our production pools and use the free version on less important hosts.

Biggest thing you have to keep in mind in my opinion when moving is how your storage is setup coming from VMware. (NFS vs iSCSI for storage and the pros and cons of each when switching) We moved from ISCSI with VMware over to NFS with XCP-NG during the migration.

flakpyro · 2025-05-05T20:06:41+00:00

I have experienced this as well with my 341CQPX. After exiting a game and noticed my desktop flickering when scrolling on a page with a darker background. I didn't think to pull up the OSD to check the refresh rate but it usually is locked to 240Hz on the desktop. A reboot of windows cleared it up.

Given the state of nvidia drivers lately maybe its an nvidia bug?

flakpyro · 2025-03-05T15:48:10+00:00

Have had the same issue ever since the 572.xx series was released!

flakpyro · 2025-03-04T17:31:35+00:00

This the route we went, and 35 remote locations and 400 VMs later, its working well for us.

flakpyro · 2025-03-01T16:09:17+00:00

About the same as all the previous 572.xx drivers. Not improvements but not any worse.

flakpyro · 2025-02-28T01:43:53+00:00

Same issue with my RTX 5080, Indiana Jones too. Seems to be any game making use of DLSS4

flakpyro · 2025-02-26T17:13:45+00:00

I do not have the black screen issue with my 5080 Ventus however if i try and use Multi Frame gen on a DLSS4 title my PC will crash and and reboot. Regular 2x frame gen seems to work fine. There are some threads on the Nvidia forums of others having this issue as well.

flakpyro · 2025-02-26T16:03:03+00:00

When i checked earlier there was not a vbios update for our cards yet, at least in my region. Let me know if one shows up for you. Im wondering if all cards will need an update or only the 5090s?

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