We have some air gapped environments. VMware have asked us to install vRealize to monitor the CPU usage. Then they want us to export a report from vRealize every month and upload it to VMware so they can bill us accordingly.

My management is dead set on getting off VMware as quickly as possible. I’ve spent a lot of the past year and a half setting up test labs and reporting on these potential replacements:

• oVirt and RHVC
• Nutanix
• scale
• Azure Stack HCI
• VX rail
• Harvester and Rancher
• A variety of qemu wrappers

None of us are very happy about it but it looks like Azure Stack HCI is the winner so far.

Anything with full grain leather and is resoleable. I have some Iron Rangers by Red Wings I’m happy with. I selected them because they were local to me.

I briefly used it. It connects you to all of your neighbors. It’s good for knowing what’s going on in your community.