Hi Tom - I know this is a longshot but I would love to see a review of VergeOS. I understand they are based in Ann Arbor, MI so you are relatively close by. I know you prefer opensource and having your storage and hypervisor separate but I would like to see your take on VergeOS. Per their website Verge.io offers hyperconverged and separate vSAN solutions. 2GuysTek did a quick review about a month ago but I would like to see another opinion.
VergeOS runs on Debian and KVM under the hood but the processing, storage, and networking all run in one code base. This is a unique approach that Verge says makes their code more efficient. 2GuysTek indicated Verge.io is working on a home lab version but no release info was provided.
I don’t have any compelling reason to use them, or https://www.scalecomputing.com/ , or Nutanix, or any other closed source company. I would rather keep throwing money towards open source team that are better aligned with the community at large.
I’ve seen some videos with kind of click bait titles, I just moved along.
People are discussing Hyper-V, Nutanix, Proxmox, and one other for movement off of VMware on a mailing list I’m on. I shot back that people should also be looking at XCP-NG but because this discussion was vendor backed, that probably only the solutions they rep are being discussed.
My understanding is Verge has all three in the same code base/module where with XCP-ng Vates writes all the code but it is in three separate modules (CPU, storage & networking) that work together. I’m not a developer or a Verge user but I thought that was an interesting point.
The main reason I brought Verge up was that the headquarters is not too far from Lawrence Systems.
Writing all in one module or making them individualized does not necessarily make much of a difference for speed, that mostly sounds like marketing speak.