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From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
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Subject: Re: VMWARE/ESXi Linux
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:30 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
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In article <viacgn$kv9u$1@dont-email.me>, arne@vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
wrote:

> But that is not how the enterprise IT world
> look today. Today there are 3 possible setups:
> 1) public cloud
> 2) on-prem with containers either on bare metal
>     or on VM in very basic setup (because k8s and
>     other container stuff provide all the advanced functionality)
> 3) on-prem with traditional VM's
> 
> #1 is not ESXi as the big cloud vendors do not want
> to pay and they want to customize. #2 does not need to
> be ESXi as no advanced features are needed so any
> virtualization is OK and ESXi cost. #3 is all that
> is left for ESXi to shine with its advanced features.

My employers have a mixture of all three, with a lot of #3 for automated
software testing with confidential data. ESXi didn't come out with an
Aarch64 version fast enough, which got KVM into use, and now the plan is
to go all-KVM because Broadcom wants too much money all at once. But if
they hadn't done that, we'd have happily stayed with ESXi. 


John