Broadcom kills Free VMware products; Canada to Ban Flipper Zero – Talking Heads Ep.321

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• I don't get the 25MB/s Unraid thing. I've heard it before but I have an Unraid array at home and that thing reads at 150MB/s sustained from a 200TB spinning rust array (well, I do have a 2TB NVMe cache but that's a write cache, not a read cache) and a write of 100MB/s sustained if I bypass the write cache, from a mix of 12TB and 18TB WD Red Pro and Toshiba MG09 drives. And yes, that's far from what TrueNAS or other, similar arrays can do, but it's also very far from 25MB/s. I wonder where Jeff got that number…? I would suspect a configuration or hardware issue if he got that from personal experience, though I can't say for sure of course. Also worth pointing out that I run my Unraid array virtualized but that doesn't explain the vastly higher read and write speeds I'm getting. I would have scrapped my Unraid VM right after setting it up if it gave me 25MB/s and there wasn't an issue in my config or hardware

  About VMware, yeah we are looking to bail as well, as soon as possible. We have about 150-200 hosts across two datacenters and the license renewal is eye-watering. We also have a few VXRail systems so we'll need to see what we'll do to replace those as well, although luckily the write off on those is a few years removed still. Looking at Nutanix like everyone else or perhaps XCP-NG or OpenStack, though my team would have to start building experience with those rapidly, because at the moment I'm the only one of us that has a bit of experience with them and for XCP-NG that's limited to an install and then setting up some VM's, while I don't yet have experience implementing HA with it even

• I am currently getting VMware and Cisco training 🙃 can’t wait

• humble

• Although they are ending general availability of vsphere, the still is and will be there VMUG Advantage, which is actually better because it gives a homelab full Enterprise editions of all the vsphere products. It costs about $150-200 per year depending on if you purchase the 1 yr, 2yr or 3 yr subscription., plus you can use a 10% coupon to lower that cost even more.

  $150 a year for full enterprise access to all VMware products is pretty good and quite affordable even for a college age with a home lab

• i wonder if wifi pineapple and hackrf one are also banned in canada

• I've been using UNRAID for some time now and recently decided to try and move to PROXMOX and boy did it not go well lol. My setup philosophy is try to use every bit of hardware i have and get it working passthrough to VMS. I was close but could not get passthrough working how i have it working in UNRAID. I plan on trying again at some point.

• OMG just get to the damn topic.

• HAM radio guy, flipper is a very useful tool in my kit

• best use for a flipper …. annoying the hooting orang's at the sports bar – turn all the TV's to PBS and enjoy the chaos

• I should make a faraday cage drawer for my keys.

• So glad I went with proxmox. At first I didn't understand how a company could give away software and still make money. But after looking at their service plans it makes perfect sense.

• Should I act surprised when a corporation does a normal corpo thing? It’s well past time to stop M&A in general. Thanks to it we have less competition, less product offerings and higher prices.

• About Zen (owned by Citrix-Tibco conglomerate)… Looking at the recent leadership changes, I would not put my money on it. (That's from a guy that works at Tibco…)

• Don't talk about merch. I don't want to find out that you don't ship to Uganda.

• Good old Canadastan, banning a toy-grade hacking tool instead than the blatantly unsecure devices said toy-grade hacking tool can hack. God forbid they upset a big corpo that still ships 20+ year old wireless control technology in expensive modern products like cars

• Blood Orange Cider from Austin Eastciders

• not exactly unexpected.. so I'm glad I never went with vomitware

• It's not Canada, it's the useless Trudeau Liberals and NDP. The Liberals are the most hated Government in the history of the country and Trudeau can't even go out in public anymore. He is despised everywhere he goes. He was elected with 34% of the vote.

• Canada has a rich history of bans and let me tell you every single one has gone exactly perfect and nobody has run into unintended consequences thanks to poor planning, political malfeasance, and bureaucratic incompetence.

  It's always gone perfectly.

  Hopefully I can still use my bank card tomorrow.

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