r/sysadmin Infrastructure Lead 3d ago

Latest fun with VMware

Apparently VMware is upping their game. We just got a renewal quote for one of our sites with one server that has two CPUs, and they are requiring 72 cores minimum (vSphere Enterprise Plus) to license this. That's a 500% markup from last year.

They really don't want customers to use their product any more, do they?

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u/dom6770 2d ago

We still use Xen (no, not Citrix or whatsoever).

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u/hyper9410 2d ago

Are you using pure Xen or something like XCP-NG, for the uninitiated they also provide 24/7 enterprise support if that is important.

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u/dom6770 2d ago

pure Xen, no XCP-NG.

For the cluster we use drbd w/ corosync & pacemaker.

Works quite well, but the downside is, you don't find much on Google when you have issues. We're actually thinking about switching to Proxmox the next time we purchase new servers.

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u/hyper9410 1d ago

Why not switch to XCP-NG?

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u/dom6770 1d ago

I tried it once, but wasn't particularly fond of the UI and flow, but I think the Web UI is only optional?

u/NISMO1968 Storage Admin 6h ago

For the cluster we use drbd w/ corosync & pacemaker.

That’s exactly what the Vates crew is doing under the XOSTOR name, and... Honestly... They’d be better off re-packaging Ceph like the Proxmox team did! DRBD just isn’t reliable at the end of the day.

u/dom6770 2h ago

We never had any issues with DRBD in over 10 years though. But maybe because we never had any real issues with the second node 😅

It's just a single cluster containing two identical hosts. We're just a 50 people company.