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HPE Discover 2025 Morpheus Targets Virtualization Licensing

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:11:11 +0000

At HPE Discover 2025, the company highlighted Morpheus, which is being touted as a lower-cost virtualization platform alternative The post HPE Discover 2025 Morpheus Targets Virtualization Licensing appeared first on ServeTheHome.

VMware ESXi 8.0U3e Now Has a Free Version How to Get It

Eric Smith — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:00:03 +0000

Broadcom brought back a VMware ESXi 8 free version now that you can download VMware ESXi 8.0U3 without subscribing The post VMware ESXi 8.0U3e Now Has a Free Version How to Get It appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Mapping Licensing for Virtualization is Cool Now

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:34:57 +0000

For a long time, we have been focusing a lot on the hardware costs of new processors but missing the virtualization license costs. Part of that is simply due to the number of virtualization licenses and support models. Recently, we purchased the most p...

New VMware ESXi to Proxmox VE Import Wizard Available

Cliff Robinson — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:06:08 +0000

A new import wizard is out to help users exfiltrate virtual machines from VMware ESXi to Proxmox VE making the process much easier The post New VMware ESXi to Proxmox VE Import Wizard Available appeared first on ServeTheHome.

VMware VCSP Customers Seeing 10x or More Cost Increases Under Broadcom

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:27:30 +0000

We discuss how some VMware customers are facing 10x or more cost increases under Broadcom with smaller MSPs hit particularly hard The post VMware VCSP Customers Seeing 10x or More Cost Increases Under Broadcom appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Broadcom VMware Ends Free VMware vSphere Hypervisor Closing an Era

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:51:05 +0000

Broadcom ended the free VMware vSphere Hypervisor era relegating VMware admins to a path similar to mainframe admins The post Broadcom VMware Ends Free VMware vSphere Hypervisor Closing an Era appeared first on ServeTheHome.

VMware Updates its EOA Plan Providing Guidance for Some Subscription Transition

Cliff Robinson — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 02:11:59 +0000

VMware updated its latest EOA plan adding three new products to this week's EOA list such as VMware vSphere Enterprise The post VMware Updates its EOA Plan Providing Guidance for Some Subscription Transition appeared first on ServeTheHome.

VMware End of Availability on Many VMware vSphere Editions

Cliff Robinson — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:58:13 +0000

VMware announced the end of availability of many VMware vSphere editions effective immediately which will cause churn for small customers The post VMware End of Availability on Many VMware vSphere Editions appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Broadcom Axes VMware Perpetual Licenses Starting the Journey of Increasing Revenue

Cliff Robinson — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 05:01:38 +0000

Broadcom has cut perpetual licenses at VMware along with Support and Subscription renewals for perpetual licenses The post Broadcom Axes VMware Perpetual Licenses Starting the Journey of Increasing Revenue appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Broadcom Closes VMware Acquisition

John Lee — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:00:39 +0000

Today marks the end of a saga spanning seven quarters as Broadcom finally is able to close its VMware acquisition The post Broadcom Closes VMware Acquisition appeared first on ServeTheHome.

A Compact ASRock DeskMini B660W VMware ESXi Build

Will Taillac — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 20:50:03 +0000

We build an emergency VMware ESXi server for a failed Lenovo system using a compact ASRock DeskMini B660W system The post A Compact ASRock DeskMini B660W VMware ESXi Build appeared first on ServeTheHome.

This GoWin R86S Pro is an Everything Revolution with 25GbE and 2.5GbE

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:26:11 +0000

This new R86S Pro with twice as many cores and twice the RAM, 3x 2.5GbE, 2x 25GbE, and WiFi will revolutionize the home lab space The post This GoWin R86S Pro is an Everything Revolution with 25GbE and 2.5GbE appeared first on ServeTheHome.

New QCT VMware Cloud Foundation Microsoft Azure HCI and Enterprise AI Solutions

John Lee — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:29:54 +0000

QCT has new VMware and Microsoft solutions for HCI and is leveraging its experience in hyper-scale AI to build enterprise AI solutions The post New QCT VMware Cloud Foundation Microsoft Azure HCI and Enterprise AI Solutions appeared first on ServeTheHo...

IBM Red Hat Puts RHEL Source Behind Paywall

Patrick Kennedy — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:00:02 +0000

IBM Red Hat pushes non-paying customers further away in latest move. VMware users should take note as the Broadcom deal looms The post IBM Red Hat Puts RHEL Source Behind Paywall appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Hands-on with an AMD Pensando DSC2-100G Elba DPU in a Secret Lab

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:36:33 +0000

We get hands-on with the AMD Pensando DSC2-100G Elba DPU in a secret lab to see the hardware and how VMware integrates the 100GbE cards into vSphere The post Hands-on with an AMD Pensando DSC2-100G Elba DPU in a Secret Lab appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Crazy Small Router Firewall and Virtualization Node iKoolCore R1 Review 4x 2.5GbE

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:00:27 +0000

We test the crazy small 4x 2.5GbE iKoolCore R1 with VMware ESXi, Ubuntu, Proxmox VE, Windows, OPNsense, and pfSense. The post Crazy Small Router Firewall and Virtualization Node iKoolCore R1 Review 4x 2.5GbE appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Using DPUs Hands-on Lab with the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU and VMware vSphere Demo

Patrick Kennedy — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:44:31 +0000

We get hands-on with the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPUs and VMware vSphere Project Monterey to show the performance and operational benefits of DPUs The post Using DPUs Hands-on Lab with the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU and VMware vSphere Demo appeared first on Ser...

Zabbix 6.2 is out now!

Arturs Lontons — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 13:38:40 +0000

The Zabbix team is pleased to announce the release of the latest Zabbix major version – Zabbix 6.2! The…

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Get VMWare on Raspberry Pi

Ashley Whittaker — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:16:45 +0000

Hacking apart a sweet, innocent Raspberry Pi – who would do such a thing? Network Chuck, that’s who. But he has a very cool reason for it so, we’ll let him off the hook. He’s figured out how to install VMware ESXi on Raspberry Pi, and he’s sharing the step-by-step process with you because he…

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