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Broadcom yanks ESXi Free version, effective immediately (kb.vmware.com)

submitted 2 years ago by kalpol@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'd expected this but it still sucks.

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[+] TCB13@lemmy.world -13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So... you replaced a property solution by a free one that depends on proprietary components and a proprietary distribution mechanism? Get get yourself into LXC/LXD/Incus (that does both containers and VMs) and is available on Debian's repositories. Or Podman if you really like the mess that Docker is.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've seen you recommending this here before - what's its selling point vs say qemu-kvm? Does Incus do virtual networking without having to straight up learn iptables or whatever? (Not that there is anything wrong with iptables, I just have to choose what I can learn about)

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Does Incus do virtual networking without having to straight up learn iptables or whatever?

That's the just one of the things it does. It goes much further as it can create clusters, download, manage and create OS images, run backups and restores, bootstrap things with cloud-init, move containers and VMs between servers (even live sometimes). Another big advantage is the fact that it provides a unified experience to deal with both containers and VMs, no need to learn two different tools / APIs as the same commands and options will be used to manage both. Even profiles defining storage, network resources and other policies can be shared and applied across both containers and VMs.