Hippy

Maybe I’m old, but I completely agree with you. There is a natural tendency to try reinvent something when you don’t understand it enough to be comfortable with it. Then that new thing lacks the maturity and scrutiny that the old thing went through to survive the test of time. This is basically how overconfident tech bros are transforming the web.

Difficult one! I see the solution but I didn’t think of it.

Our VMware has become expensive enough that we’re looking at Proxmox for enterprise workloads. We also run Azure local clusters but we can get much better hardware if the budget isn’t drained by licensing. On Azure local the storage is expensive because you need 3x or more mirrors for all volumes and the deduplication doesn’t make it that much better. We’re thinking about a PowerStore with fibre channel for the block storage and then workloads on Proxmox clusters. One of the issues with Proxmox is their support for high network speeds like 100G is experimental.