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Comment Re:Resonate with customers (Score 1) 73

Cabin heating takes only a couple HP. It eats into EV range because it's continuous, but it makes pretty much no difference on the ability of the ICE in an EREV to keep up.

The average power consumption during towing is exactly what the EREV ice will be dimensioned for in the US. Again, some cabin heating matters nothing at that point.

Comment Re:Quite a bit of culture in Japan is ossified (Score 1) 72

Finding excuses to psychologically and legally exploit men isn't what I would call extreme feminism, more pop culture feminism.

There is no "the woman". A more old fashioned culture could beat one woman into accepting a traditional mother role and make them happy and it could beat another into holding together a miserable marriage with an abusive alcoholic husband. Shit happens.

Comment Re:Anyone has actual info? (Score 0) 29

China systematically builds insecurity into every political relationship and any product they produce ... I suspect even a lump of  Chicom-iron right off the forge has an antenna and  transmitter built in. China by their own actions is unworthy of trust. So rejecting an explicit  chi-com infected surveillance mechanism is a no-brainer. Yes ... as if you didn't know ... only the paranoid survive.

Comment Re:Open Source (Score 3, Insightful) 81

How does something like proxmox compare to vmware in the larger space? What functionality is missing that is critical for larger businesses?

Genuinely curious.

So, these are a few things off the top of my head; I tend to limit my usage to only smaller installs, so consider this more of a "stuff to Google for clarification" list than a definitive set of information...

I think the biggest thing is that there is no analogue to vSAN. It'll mount iSCSI and NFS targets, and its ceph implementation is at least on par with VMFS, but larger installs that depend on vSAN tend to be underwhelmed.

The Proxmox Datacenter Manager, which allows for live migration of VMs between hosts, is still in an alpha state. I've had it work pretty well; it's quite polished for something being described as being in its alpha stage, but the functional equivalent of vMotion is still lacking.

Meanwhile, support is not quite at VMWare levels. Obviously, post-Broadcom, VMWare support took a nose dive, but Proxmox does not offer direct phone support, instead depending on resellers to do so.

Beyond that, I personally found the UI to be rather unintuitive, for example storage is defined at a 'datacenter' level, rather than at a 'host' level. PCIe Passthrough can be a bit...special, compared to VMWare having that be a trivial matter. Also, more sophisticated networking configs are more "Linux-y" in Proxmox than in VMWare, which uses a more traditional switches-and-ports paradigm that's much easier to understand and visualize. I also found VMWare's storage to be simpler, in that a datastore can have thin-provisioned VMs, thick-provisioned VMs, and installer ISOs all sit next to each other in harmony, while Proxmox gets more...particular. For example, an LVM-Thin volume will thin provision any VM stored to it and won't allow QCOW2 virtual disks to be added to it. ZFS storage is more flexible on that front, but it handles snapshots differently...

I say all of this as someone who either has moved, or will move, all of my VMWare clients to Proxmox. The feature set is more than enough for all of them, and as an added bonus, Proxmox is a *lot* less picky about hardware; I've got a box full of 10GbE NICs that got a new lease on life because VMWare decided the PCIe 3.0 Qlogic cards were 'too old', while Proxmox will still send traffic over a 10-Base-2 BNC network through an ISA card if I gave it one.

Comment Re:American (Score 2) 60

It's not about boycotting U.S. based contributions to software. It's about getting your data out of U.S. escrow. As long as Microsoft puts everything in a cloud controlled by an U.S. based entity, Lyon doesn't control any data it puts into Microsoft software. Lyon is a town in France, and not in the U.S.. So Lyon prefers its data to be completely within the French legal system.

Code put in Linux is not controlled by any U.S. based entity. When in doubt, you can always fork. Hence Lyon does not have the same level of concern about using Linux.

Comment Re: What reads that fast? (Score 1) 95

The train is invented. It's called Multi-Gigabt-Optics. A 100 GBit/sec QSFP+ is just a $6000 price tag away. But a 10 GBit/sec SFP+ is available for $15 or less.

What you wanted to say is you don't lay the track before you know what the payload will be. Back in the time, when DSL was barely reaching 2 MBit/sec, many people were wondering who would ever need those speeds. Then Netflix came along. You might not see a need for 10 GBit/sec in every room right now, but believe me: the applications will come. And maybe you aren't the one jumping on the new application band wagon, but enough people will.

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