With free esxi over, not shocking bit sad, I am now about to move away from a virtualisation platform i’ve used for a quarter of a century.

Never having really tried the alternatives, is there anything that looks and feels like esxi out there?

I don’t have anything exceptional I host, I don’t need production quality for myself but in all seriousness what we run at home end up at work at some point so there’s that aspect too.

Thanks for your input!

      • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Depends on what you want to self host? Could be worth it to see if what you self host can be deployed as containers instead

    • Lemzlez@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Kubernetes yes, but minikube is kinda meh as a way to install it outside of development environments.

      There’s so many better manageable ways like RKE/Rancher (which gives you the possibility to go k3s),Kubespray or even kubeadm.

      All of those will result in a cluster that’s more suitable for running actual workloads.

    • else@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I wouldn’t recommend going K8S only in a homelab. Too much effort and some things don’t fit well (Home Assistant, Gaming VM?)

      • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        It’s just a suggestion. Many would probably find that the workload they host is available on containers. I run a Kubernetes cluster on bare metal at home. There’s also nothing stopping you from creating VMs that you can ssh to with KubeVirt