@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
@stacksofplates said in KVM or VMWare:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
Just in this thread there is a lot
No there isn't. I"ll just be blatantly honest. I don't think you or your company have the skills you are saying here. Not too long ago you made an argument about creating VMs through Cockpit was fine because manual OS installations was ok and didn't need to be automated through clones. I 100% don't believe your company has KVM skills outside of maybe installing Proxmox and clicking some buttons.
That's fine, but that's what you have to resort to.... claiming everyone you meet isn't good enough to say that there aren't skills for it. Yes, manual install IS fine, and I can't accept your opinion if you feel that one way is the only way for everything. You are doing exactly what we warn people about.... not evaluating needs, not learning multiple ways. Just latching onto the latest trend and touting the thing you know religiously without doing the one thing that makes us truly IT.... evaluating what we do in the context of the business need.
If you feel that manual installs have no place, you've made my point for me. Your opinion is suspect because you are wearing blinders and not operating like someone advising a company based on their needs, but just pushing an agenda. So you come across, like you sound, like a sales person pushing a product or technique. That's the opposite of our jobs in IT.
Sure, cloning is great much of the time, most of the time. But not all of the time. Until you stop with the "my way or the highway" rhetoric, you can't add value to a decision process.
I'm not claiming everyone isn't good enough. I know large tech companies have great KVM skills. But they are paid a ton and they aren't floating around helping SMBs deploy Windows AD infrastructure.
If you feel that manual installs have no place, you've made my point for me. Your opinion is suspect because you are wearing blinders and not operating like someone advising a company based on their needs, but just pushing an agenda. So you come across, like you sound, like a sales person pushing a product or technique. That's the opposite of our jobs in IT.
Manual installs have their place, to set up the template. Even if you're only deploying one server it should be from a template because it's repeatable. Updates are easier and quicker with templates. Just because you are charging your customers more so you can do manual work instead of automating it doesn't mean others are trying to sell something.
