Good timing considering the esxi news https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2107518?lang=en_US
Very glad I decided to use Proxmox (as the Broadcom acquisition had been announced) for the small cluster we set up at our business a year ago, it’s been super stable, pretty easy to use but can do way more than I need (we’re not doing much that is that complicated yet)
LSI was the standard for hardware raid, 3com and others big network names. Now they are Broadcom, which basically means:
* do as little as possible
* axe most support
* screw the little guy
* milk milk milk
* no real heavy R&D
This means, to me, that lots of hardware and software is being handled far less diligently than Boeing.
And that scares me.
So it’s subscription or bust? Owch.
I use proxmox, which is hard to use but open. It is powerful, but you sort of have to be a sysadmin to climb the learning curve with it.
But I have lots of friends who are busy at home, but use vmware there. To them it is the same sort of "free" as proxmox.
They create an abstract model of vmware in their heads.
And when they're at work, they think of virtualization kinds of problems in terms of vmware. So at work, that's the tool they frequently reach for.