>>>>> "Gregory" == Gregory Boyce <gregory.boyce@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 2:42 PM John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Keller <turbofx@gmail.com> writes:
>> Currently we're having issues getting the Turing Pi 2 to boot, so
>> doing a show off of Proxmox I could definitely do as well.
> I'ev got proxmox running at owkr with some basic VMs on it for
> testing. I might be able to show it off doing some basic stuff like
> live migrations.
> I recently switched my home server to proxmox, and I've been
> spending time using terraform and packer to build and deploy VMs.
Are you running a cluster or just one system? I've got a three node
cluster at $WORK, but thinking of looking at their SCALE product. But
of course while VMware is going to shaft us pricewise, the manglement
might not want to leave the devil they know.
Just a single system at the moment.
Another issue is deploying OVA files. I find that ProxMOX is a pain
in terms of .iso and .ova files, you need to first add them into it's
own repository, then you can deploy from them. VMware just lets you
browse for the files and deploy.
Yeah, that makes sense. The interface isn't especially user friendly either. It takes me a while to remember where the interface for uploading ISO files is whenever I need to use it.
That's one thing that Scale Computing does well. The interface for uploading images is pretty straightforward, and it will convert images from various formats for you automatically. Other than the current lack of support for compressed images.
Though I also admit that .ova deployments can be annoyingly tough, but
I'm running VCenter 7.0.x and a mix of ESXi 6.7 and 7.0 on my
systems. Legacy hardware which I can't move up. Another reason to
hate vendor designed stuff, it locks you in.
> I'd be happy to share code if anyone is interested.
Please do!
This is very much a work in progress as I work on learning the tools.