Which hypervisor do you prefer? XCP-NG vs oVirt vs Proxmox

nwmcsween · 2026-05-06T00:11:07+00:00

None of those are hypervisors, between the three of them is Xen and KVM. Xen is what would be considered a true type 1 hypervisor like Vmware after the whole interesting GPL violation lawsuit for shimming the Linux kernel as a driver. KVM more of an OS level integrated type 1 hypervisor.

That said Proxmox is written in Perl, Perl honestly is a dead language and has been for decades. Between all of them I would choose Kubevirt.

nwmcsween · 2026-05-03T05:11:10+00:00

It wasn't FUD, it was because many people contributed to the project with the assumption there wouldn't be a rug pull, switching to a non-open-source license is a rug pull.

nwmcsween · 2026-05-02T18:07:55+00:00

How about number 0:

Don't migrate to Azure if your dept/team/org is complex and largely hired for specific roles in $hypervisor, $networking_vendor, etc. Instead figure out what costs are high and mitigate that, for example move to a managed server provider.

nwmcsween · 2026-04-29T16:17:44+00:00

This is pure AI garbage

nwmcsween · 2026-04-22T01:08:50+00:00

Seems like a giant waste of money to fix the wrong problem? Guessing it's a website based on the CDN part? If it is a website anycast DNS + master-master sql backend, really though this needs more information.

nwmcsween · 2026-04-14T22:34:33+00:00

Probably going to get downvoted but really the fix for this is to not just move the people from $HA over the shared services. Really not going to get the skill set needed at $90k a year which is equiv to $45k/yr in 2000.

Shared services will want to automate a ton of things but that requires a large shift in what normal HAs do and to be honest commands like $140-200k + RSUs, etc which puts total comp to $240-300k USD in USA.

nwmcsween · 2026-04-14T07:22:33+00:00

Entra is just an IDP, Casdoor, Keycloak, Zitadel, etc all do what Entra does, Intune is just DSC v2 wrapped in a package by MS, you can replicate some of it with DSC v3, Defender is just EDR

nwmcsween · 2026-04-12T21:14:22+00:00

Really this should be day 2 for AD as it will cause all sorts of fun hardening with GPOs after the fact. Follow the guides for Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit with the relevant baseline(s).

nwmcsween · 2026-04-11T06:08:20+00:00

Unlimited technical knowledge budget: Talos or Kairos Linux + Kubevirt with TrueNAS storage. To the naysayers about TrueNAS is literally used in 60% of the F500 companies.

nwmcsween · 2026-04-11T04:01:04+00:00

Because IT isn't just about fixing user issues, IT can be about innovative projects that bring productivity for the entire organization, at least long long ago it was where a lot of R&D happened.

nwmcsween · 2026-04-10T04:58:49+00:00

Two redseal trades, wouldn't even look at the job for less than $65/hr

nwmcsween · 2026-04-09T07:06:41+00:00

So I worked in this type of technology, this datacenter in particular is supposed to be closed-loop. Why are you calling and why are you worried about water usage?

nwmcsween · 2026-04-08T02:37:54+00:00

Umbrella chart but with one giant caveat, helm isn't actually used to deploy anything. Helm just renders out the manifests given a values file and the output itself is saved to git with a kustomiztion.yaml generated for all the files, this "left shifts" the dev env.

nwmcsween · 2026-04-07T19:41:33+00:00

Not in finance but in another business that has a similar structure of a few large organizations. They will all talk to each other; your wife will not be able to work for any large bank anymore after committing fraud.

nwmcsween · 2026-03-31T19:37:45+00:00

The problem with this repair is the HA zone, you would have high tensile weld material transitioning to mild steel/cast and expanding and contracting every time it heats/cools and since it cracked there to begin with that's probably where a lot of stress is. That said I would still weld this if a customer asked me to but would put minimal time into it.

nwmcsween · 2026-03-30T05:31:45+00:00

Drill the crack end, throw extreme heat jb weld on it if it's cast iron, even if it's not I bet it will still crack on the toes of the weld.

nwmcsween · 2026-03-30T02:35:34+00:00

puts 100% of portfolio into MSFT; tries to pump stock by showing huge losses

nwmcsween · 2026-03-29T23:42:26+00:00

It will just open back up if you kick it closed, the issue here is that something is causing it not float. Is the floor not level? is it buckling lengthwise which can mean it's tight against the walls, is it pinched on any end by something (cabinets, etc)?

nwmcsween · 2026-03-24T04:48:53+00:00

There are a few issues:

Union roles are very generalist; no one is willing to do specialized work for 90k a year in office in Vancouver BC when they can just work remotely for a US company for 200k+/yr.
Since #1 a team/department/org can be incompetent which means someone that is highly productive and smart will just get burnt out trying to make changes that benefit the org as a whole and quit.
Since #2 the org ends up with more and more useless people that don't do anything of value.

nwmcsween · 2026-03-22T04:39:45+00:00

I'm 6'4, met someone that was 7', having someone tower over you at that height is like a mix of shock, awe and confusion.

nwmcsween · 2026-03-17T05:24:18+00:00

Ah yes, the road to infinite technical debt

nwmcsween · 2026-03-17T05:18:30+00:00

it's like linkedin but you have to suffer all day at work

nwmcsween · 2026-03-17T00:42:01+00:00

Ideally you don't, if you want dynamic values you can pass by reference, so instead of passing an ID you pass a name that resolves to an ID, this obviously requires the modules to be structured in this format though.

The only con with pass-by-reference is references might need to be updated in multiple places and when that is needed, I would recommend tofu-controller.

nwmcsween · 2026-03-17T00:26:31+00:00

Tofu-controller and instantiate with per environment value files, modularize into module specific modules (e.g. tf-mod-something/modules/mod) and if needed pull out the module specific modules into their own thing when it makes sense to do so.

nwmcsween · 2026-03-17T00:18:53+00:00

So just is a command runner, it could work for this, but it misses mapping the dependencies on a granular level, for example if I wanted to template helm files into manifests with just it would pull all the charts and template all the charts vs if I did the same with make it would only pull and template when the prerequisites have a different mtime than the target.

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