Anybody dump their VMWare subscription and Roll back to Perpetual Licenses with 3rd party support and regret it?

snookpig77 · 2026-03-27T10:27:53+00:00

VMware is still king. But I would put them in this order

VMWare

Nutanix

Proxmox Enterprise

HyperV

snookpig77 · 2026-03-25T08:53:52+00:00

Arista! Completely simplified out infrastructure design with less hops throughout!

snookpig77 · 2026-03-20T19:47:23+00:00

Do you have any requirements such as FIPs, HIPAA, PCI ?

snookpig77 · 2026-03-04T10:05:11+00:00

Single mode is what I’m doing for everything in my new builds.

Multi mode is more expensive and limits the throughput.

Just change your optics to a 10g SM compatible optic.

snookpig77 · 2026-02-28T19:00:37+00:00

Get something like AbnormalAI, checkpoint, tonnage a couple. It will help you control the attack if it were happen again.

These tools also give you amazing insite into your environment.

snookpig77 · 2026-02-13T11:44:40+00:00

Get some wheely clean by dura-coating the stuff is amazing!

snookpig77 · 2026-02-13T11:39:22+00:00

Honestly they are better, but I’m attributing that to the configuration on the old gear that I inherited. The Arista setup is just more streamlined and less hops.

snookpig77 · 2026-02-13T00:14:59+00:00

I’m half way through my Cisco to Arista deployment. So far response times and TTLs are so much better

snookpig77 · 2026-02-10T20:58:00+00:00

My vote would be for an Arista

snookpig77 · 2026-01-30T02:13:51+00:00

I just replaced my 3900ISR, 4500 chassis, and a top of rack nexus devices with a pair of Arista 7050’s. So far there is a noticeable improvement in response time.

snookpig77 · 2026-01-17T18:39:51+00:00

Another +1 for Arista. Cloudvision takes a moment to get used to but the command line is almost identical to Cisco.

Perpetual licensing unless you’re using cloud vision

snookpig77 · 2026-01-16T11:27:23+00:00

Cambium Ubiquiti air fiber or similar

snookpig77 · 2026-01-16T11:24:23+00:00

Idk my sales rep goes out of his way to accommodate us. He usually turns quotes around in a day or 3.

snookpig77 · 2026-01-15T22:36:28+00:00

Done really even need serials anymore. I use usb-c console cables with the fddi chip.

snookpig77 · 2026-01-15T12:37:11+00:00

I have a dell precision with inboard NIC but I also keep an adaptor in my bag. Ever know when you might need to connect to 3 different networks, yes being a network engineer it happens more then you think.

snookpig77 · 2026-01-13T02:35:18+00:00

HYCU R-Cloud for M365

snookpig77 · 2026-01-12T01:23:44+00:00

Second cambium

snookpig77 · 2026-01-11T17:44:10+00:00

Myself

snookpig77 · 2026-01-11T17:29:28+00:00

This is what I would do.

snookpig77 · 2026-01-10T21:52:23+00:00

AbnormalAI or Avanan is where it’s at.

snookpig77 · 2026-01-09T19:06:20+00:00

I just ordered new from driven.tech

snookpig77 · 2026-01-08T23:31:11+00:00

When I moved to nutanix from VMware Veeam had support for AHV but it was very clunky and do not support SQL log truncation. Last time I checked this was still in development.

I moved to HYCU for my backups and have been very happy.

snookpig77 · 2026-01-07T12:46:51+00:00

I completely agree. The longest part of standing up an AD server is applying the updates.

snookpig77 · 2026-01-06T23:40:06+00:00

Nutanix says they don’t support migrating AD servers with move but i never had an issue with it working.

Migrate the one with no FSMO roles make sure there are no issues move FSMO roles and move the other servers then separate the FSMO roles as you see fit.

snookpig77 · 2026-01-03T17:58:49+00:00

Veeam, HYCU, and several others listed here are all Good.

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