Several years passed - the forum lay fallow. Now no more!
Each of us has made massive progress in our beloved IT in recent years.
For my part, I have expanded my knowledge with pfSense and OPNSense and more.
This includes:
- IDS and IPS
- Suricata
- Crowdsec
- Traffic shaping
- of course the firewall itself
My hardware warehouse has also been expanded.
This includes
- 2 Macbooks (Mid 2012 & Yearly 2015 - 13’')
an HP Enterprise ProLiant (short form HPE for more in the text) DL360p G8 server - 2 Thinkpad X270 laptops
- 4 Intel Datacenter NVMe SSDs
I have had an HPE ProLiant DL380 G7 for a long time.
Since 2019 I have been using VMWare ESXi as hypervisor operating system.
But with a switch from VMWare ESXi to Proxmox VE in summer 2022, the functionality of the server has scaled massively.
But the reason for this was different:
As the server is no longer the latest, the most up-to-date ESXi could not be installed.
This was of course a security risk !
Then later, in fall 2023 - Broadcom buys VMWare. When I read that, I just thought: How much longer until Broadcom offers ESXi as a free download, removed!
At the beginning of 2024, Broadcom then made this a reality. I am glad that I have been using Proxmox VE for 2 years now.
The side effect of the whole VMWare ↔ Broadcom scandal is the highlight!
Veeam, a leading specialist in backup/restore with disaster recovery, had announced that they would be adding Proxmox to their portfolio.
Hooray!