Esxi/vcenter also seems to require constant admin
It’s weird how I’ve worked in Large-scale Enterprise shops for more than the last decade, and ESX since about 4 has required absolutely no break-fix other than patching and whatever the underlying hardware needed. We’re talking thousands of VMs, and flawless metro-vmotion of hundreds of hot-and-running streaming VMs at times, and over years. To see what you’ve written, it could be a very different product from the one I’ve used, as I’ve seen none of what you mention.
I hope you can see the same reliability one day, from the product where you’ve migrated.
ShunkW@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Years ago, I had a job where we were moving from Citrix to esxi. I was so excited because I had bought into the hype and Citrix had annoyed me to no end. 4 months into the migration project, we hit a major roadblock. Open a ticket - no response. Reach out to our contact for escalation after a week - no response. Our director reached out to the high level person on the VMware side of the deal - no response.
At least with Citrix we usually got a response within 24 hours with information or being told they were escalating. We stuck with Citrix because our director at least didn’t fall into the sunk cost fallacy.