Comment by NexRebular
Comment by NexRebular 3 days ago
Or if you'd like to help preventing linux monoculturalization of datacenters, MNX Triton or vanilla SmartOS are very good options too.
Comment by NexRebular 3 days ago
Or if you'd like to help preventing linux monoculturalization of datacenters, MNX Triton or vanilla SmartOS are very good options too.
As an aside: Solaris is something you can buy from Oracle, which they forked from OpenSolaris 15 years ago. SmartOS is a distribution of illumos, which also forked from the same code 15 years ago. They have since diverged, in some areas dramatically, so we (the illumos community) don't bill ourselves as being Solaris based.
My impression, strengthened by https://wiki.smartos.org/managing-instances-with-vmamd/#usin... , is that SmartOS preferentially operates at the per-host scale, which is probably a disadvantage in a datacenter setting. (I don't know enough about MNX Triton to comment)
The cool thing about proxmox is that it is - again - "just debian" so there is really no vendor lock-in. Yes they do have commercial support/update subscriptions but the community offering is open (https://github.com/proxmox). So I do not worry too much about lock-in or monoculturalization. At the end of the day it is a wrapper around fundamental components of Linux. They do not have any proprietary secret sauce that would F you down the road.
Correction I see now that the projects you reference are Solaris based. I am down with that cause too - but if you are a BSD/Solaris shop expect to do a lot of things on your own. The linux virtualization space is substantially larger (not necessarily suggesting it is better...)