What is the current OS of choice for Napp-it All-in-One?

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RyC

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Yes, you still can create VM version 8, so just be sure not to upgrade/create new VMs with version 10, and it should still be just as functional.
 

StephD

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Upgrading to ESXI 5.5 has put me in an impossible situation. I upgraded my virtual hardware on a VM and now the windows vSphere Client can't manage the VM. I don't understand what VMWare is doing? Near as I can figure, the only way to manage a VM Hardware Version 10 VM is via the (not free) vSphere Web Client

Arnt they just effectively killing off an entire generation of free home VM users
I use vSphere at work, and initially planned to use it at home too like most people here have been doing for years but this seems very unlikely now.

This is a bad move from VMware IMHO since people like me will soon grow skills with alternative solutions which will sooner or later translate in market share loss.
 

dswartz

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Here is an interesting trick you can do with pfsense. For me, having the internet go down is worse than anything else. I have two ESXi servers, and the pfsense gateway is on one of them with a vmdk on the shared datastore. When I installed pfsense 2.1, I picked the option to allow an install to a mirrored disk, once of which is the previously mentioned vmdk. The other is a same-size vmdk on the shared datastore of the other ESXi server. Unless you are running squid or something, pfsense will not do much disk I/O, so the performance hit is not significant. This allows me to reboot if needed the storage appliance on the main ESXi server. If you happen to have HA/FT available, you can even FT protect the pfsense appliance and eliminate any single point of failure for internet access.