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“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft is sunsetting Hyper-V Server (Not Hyper-V itself) so now you have to run Hyper-V on a bloated Windows Server install. Too bad because Hyper-V is actually a decent hypervisor and Microsoft is shutting out a lot of their smaller customers who don't have the money for tons of exhorbitant licensing.

I even use Hyper-V for my self hosted setup but I'll be forced to switch in a few years whenever my host server is ready for retirement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They also offer the Azure Stack HCI platform, which is the modern version of hyper-v, but goddamn is it a pain in the ass (and requires active connection and subscription to azure for onprem workloads).

It's alright, but it's my least favorite of the 3 platforms we run.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think administrative overhead is the hidden cost that a lot of technology vendors fail to consider. Microsoft is especially guilty of this. Is a "good" product that requires an obscene amount of esoteric knowledge and experience to maintain really that good?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I'm definitely not the biggest fan of HCI, especially the reporting aspect of it. I had to write my own damn reports just to see how badly we over provisioned disks once we found out it only reports on actual utilization.

I tolerate Microsoft products and admin them, but damn they're annoying to use at times.