Hello,
i was a VMware admin in my former life and one reason (of several) why i quit was , that i much disliked their policy of hardware support. It happened that server had been invalidated and declared "unsupported" or "incapable of running vmware" which were just about 4-5 years old.
I'm so happy that proxmox is so more better here and that it's such a flexible, solid and open solution and that proxmox is a company which listens to the customers and encourages participation. i hardly remember having so much fun and passion in participating in an opensource project.
I guess, skyrocketing energy prices will put pressure on obsoleting and updating older infrastructure, but to be honest - personally i'm having a hard time to find small/mid sized scalable business servers with really low energy demand, as it seems that new servers models are built for performance and not for consuming less power. that's good, if they run as many virtual machines as possible, but that's unfortunate if you have lower requirements for branch office for example. that's why we mostly quit buying brand new hardware...
Just being curious what's your oldest hardware running proxmox 7.2 in production (and why) - and whats your oldest hardware being regularly used with proxmox for private purpose or in a home-lab.
Would you like to share some information on what you're running and what's the spec of those machines?
Let's start:
Prod:
Multiple Fujitsu RX300 S6 (market launch 2012) with dual Xeon L5640 , crossflashed Dell Perc H310 HBA and 144GB RAM in Production with Proxmox 7.2. Temporary "addon capacity" during Xenserver Migration. Runs rock solid, no crashes. No user complaints.
Private:
Multiple Fujitsu Futro S600 Thin Clients (market launch 2013) with AMD G-T56N and 8GB RAM at different non-profit/hobbyists associations, running pve 7.2 and pbs 2.2. Used for VPN gateway and backing up the proxmox main server. Runs rocks solid. no crashes.
i was a VMware admin in my former life and one reason (of several) why i quit was , that i much disliked their policy of hardware support. It happened that server had been invalidated and declared "unsupported" or "incapable of running vmware" which were just about 4-5 years old.
I'm so happy that proxmox is so more better here and that it's such a flexible, solid and open solution and that proxmox is a company which listens to the customers and encourages participation. i hardly remember having so much fun and passion in participating in an opensource project.
I guess, skyrocketing energy prices will put pressure on obsoleting and updating older infrastructure, but to be honest - personally i'm having a hard time to find small/mid sized scalable business servers with really low energy demand, as it seems that new servers models are built for performance and not for consuming less power. that's good, if they run as many virtual machines as possible, but that's unfortunate if you have lower requirements for branch office for example. that's why we mostly quit buying brand new hardware...
Just being curious what's your oldest hardware running proxmox 7.2 in production (and why) - and whats your oldest hardware being regularly used with proxmox for private purpose or in a home-lab.
Would you like to share some information on what you're running and what's the spec of those machines?
Let's start:
Prod:
Multiple Fujitsu RX300 S6 (market launch 2012) with dual Xeon L5640 , crossflashed Dell Perc H310 HBA and 144GB RAM in Production with Proxmox 7.2. Temporary "addon capacity" during Xenserver Migration. Runs rock solid, no crashes. No user complaints.
Private:
Multiple Fujitsu Futro S600 Thin Clients (market launch 2013) with AMD G-T56N and 8GB RAM at different non-profit/hobbyists associations, running pve 7.2 and pbs 2.2. Used for VPN gateway and backing up the proxmox main server. Runs rocks solid. no crashes.
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