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Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales, testing customers and partners (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Just what the world needs, more software subscriptions. /s

Though we are talking about Broadcom, so I can't say I am surprised.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying you can't run production on it, after all RHV was based on it. What I'm saying is that it's a run at your own risk because you can't buy support. Some companies are okay with taking on that risk, others aren't.

You should be automating that stuff anyway. Make a template that has the drivers installed, or write up some Ansible that does the install for you. It's annoying, but it shouldn't be a problem once you have an automation pipeline in place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Argh good god. Ansible. Another topic that I wanted to dive in recently. It seems to be more and more used in all kinds of environments. Gotta get my fingers on it and get to know my way around in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ansible is my specialty. It's kind of hard to get in the mindset of declarative after all the years of writing imperative scripts. Once you do, it's amazing.