Re: [Astlinux-devel] [Astlinux-users] VMware by Broadcom

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the feedback.  Great to hear how things are used in the real world.

Hope your VMware vCloud environment costs don't go up too much in the future.

No worries, we will keep VMware kernel support and hopefully open-vm-tools stays relevant.

We may want to tweak the documentation related to ESXi and such.

Lonnie



> On Feb 15, 2024, at 4:47 PM, Michael Knill <mic...@ip...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Lonnie
>  
> Responded on the Developer mailing list.
>  
> Please please don’t remove VMware support ☹
> Our new architecture is installing Astlinux in our VMware vCloud environment of which we have around 50 systems with many more to come. We no longer install hardware based Astlinux except the occasional VPN gateway on a spare APU and install ALL our systems in vCloud with connectivity from VPN devices such as Netgate (pfSense) and GL.iNet (OpenWRT).
>  
> Its an excellent architecture as we can oversubscribe CPU and with the low Astlinux memory footprint (now 300M), cloud servers are very cost effective. As this is provided as a service there is no impact to me unless it affects my provider which I suspect it wont but if so it would only be pricing.
>  
> Regards
> Michael Knill
>  
>  
> From: Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...>
> Date: Friday, 16 February 2024 at 1:24 am
> To: AstLinux Users Mailing List <ast...@li...>
> Subject: [Astlinux-users] VMware by Broadcom
> 
> Hi Group,
> 
> With the VMware transition from perpetual licensing to new subscription offerings, and the end of free ESXi [1],
> 
> should the VMware support in AstLinux change in any way?
> 
> If you are currently using AstLinux in a VMware instance, will you continue to do so for the future or switch to some other hypervisor?
> 
> There is some extra bloat added to the AstLinux VM ISO to support VMware (ex. open-vm-tools)
> 
> I'm curious how AstLinux VM users are reacting to the VMware transition.
> 
> Lonnie
> 
> [1] https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2107518
> 
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