Recent content by Space_Ranger

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Sadly there isn't a break :( Broadcom when full-on stupid with their plans for VMWare. I don't nearly have the infrastructure you're having to manage (roughly 256 cores for my 6 hosts) and as a Non-profit the pricing just isn't sustainable.

This is roughly correct.. I don't believe you can under-license the cores and get things to work (license for 16 cores when you have 32 available on the CPU). Broadcom is hacking the living daylights out of the product to make it completely unusable by small/medium sized business and home...

There is a Migration path directly from XO for ESXi VMs to XCP-NG. It's currently bugged if you use the latest "Release" version of 8.2.1 for XCP-NG and it's supposedly fixed in the 8.3-B2 release of XCP-NG. I'm going to be playing with an upgrade of my testbench to 8.3-B2 and try another set...

Licensing has been the sole reason why I haven't gone apeshit on building a killer host with dual EPYC's in it. I'm in the process of testbenching XCP-NG though, and very well may make a cluster of dual EPYC's (for HA/Redundancy) for the majority of guests.

Exactly.. Sad state things are in.

Gotta burn those watts somewhere!

Oh.. We are in agreement here. I didn't state it was the greatest solution. It's just one way I've seen people attempt it.

It's a slight performance penalty (for gaming in a Windows VM) but you might be able to pull off a Windows Gaming VM with GPU passthrough. You probably will get decent information from : https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/

Looks like a nice unit. Best of luck to you! That detachable front panel controller looks neat too.

Thank you Brent for an excellent review (as always!).

I feel your pain on being stuck in the Apple Camp. I'm getting there with my family, migrating them away from the "Apple Life". I've got my daughter using a Pixel 8 now, and I have a Pixel 7a. My parents are off the Apple Bandwagon finally, with the only 2 combatants left to fell are my wife...

It's basically "Artificial Leather"... Plant or Plastic based.. Junk is what it screams...

Looks as though the Broadcom's completion of the acquisition of VMWare, and their deciding to kill off perpetual licensing, what are your plans going forward if you're in the ESXi world? I myself, working for a non-profit organization, can't afford the per-core-a-year pricing they've...

I use this for my desk.. I like the pad. It's cheap... It works... All the check boxes I need.. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08F58Z9QR/?tag=thefpsreview-20