Hi,
What I'm wondering here, what's the benefit of running the CentOS 7 machine on VMware instead of EL8?
Simon -------------------------------------------------------------------
Simon,
It was not a pleasant decision for sure. The initial commitment of RedHat/IBM for the End of Life of C8 was through 2029. I created a hypervisor of C8 on a Dell R730xd server last November 2020 and everything was working very well with two C7 guests and one Windows guest on it. I had plans to move a mail server to it next.
I think it was in December 2020 or January 2021 that RedHat/IBM changed their commitment of the EOL of C8 from 2029 to December of this year 2021. They also have coined a new objective of the Centos platform. IBM owns it so they are free to do what they want with it, but I don't have much confidence that they will keep their remaining commitments.
I still had a lot of of new work I wanted to do with the C8 hypervisor, and did not want to start over after this December. I decided to make the move to a different platform as soon as I reasonably could.
I thought about migrating to Rocky Linux, but I was not sure if that platform would get off the ground in sufficient time.
It was a difficult decision for me...... Good Luck to you!!!!!!!!!
Greg