mosiacmango

Almost took a job early in my career that would have led to being an oracle DBA. Have managed to continue not working with Oracle at all the rest.

I may be oracle proof. Maybe I should give these hospitals a ring.

Self signed certs about to get even more popular.

Id call it viable hyper-converged infastructure when it in use as such like with proxmox, but its not scoped to just being a vSAN. Its a distributed storage network. its design is way wider than just being used for HCI/vSAN/etc.

Okay, that tracks better. Im familiar with ceph and promox using it as a “fake” vSAN. Im also familiar with Vmwares vSAN and had never seen any indicator of an internal storage VM, so that was odd.

It being Nutanix doing the above makes sense as I haven’t worked with them yet.

The above is an ad, but it both open about it and technically interesting, if a bit repetitive.

I honestly had no idea a vSAN was primarily running on hidden storage VMs on the host. I thought the storage stack was as tightly integrated as networking/compute at the hypervisor level, so the light breakdown there was worth the read.

Serverless is just the cloudy boys tricking devs and MBAs into paying 100x for code to run to drop 5% of the workload of maintaining a complaint server somewhere.

They literally managed to convince people to take a free thing like “code can run as many times as you want for nothing” and turn it into “pay us each time code runs so you don’t to learn docker.”

Marketing makes money.

Stood up some podman services. Using cloud init to provision the VMs, and podman quadlets to translate docker compose into systemd files. Really solid, just need to make them rootless now.

Also looking at a tailscale deployment for zero trust. The feature set is a lot wider than I thought.

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Netdata is excellent, simple and I believe FOSS. Just install locally and it should start logging pretty much everything.

ROBO licenses are gone. We saw licensing costs for servers at those sites go up 5x.

We have a few years left on our main clusters licensing, but we are already investigating moving off vmware because we expect more of the same.

Yeah we run a smallish Horizon view VDI enviroment and could probally replace it with a dozen of these servers in a dual card config.

I’d love to demo it to make sure it’s viable, but I’m unlikely to get 5k approved just to do so. $600 for a video card? Much easier.

Your use case sounds like something a nuc or sff from minisforum could handle, but if you want “cheap” and “small enterprise,” both ambiguous terms, the supermicro superservers should fit the bill.