And in the quiet hum of the data center, the Gen9s—unsupported, unloved, but flawlessly stable in their second life—backed up another night’s work without a single purple screen.
A Reddit thread from six months ago. Title: “Running ESXi 8 on DL360 Gen9 – success?” The top comment: “Works fine for a homelab. Don’t do this in production unless you hate sleeping.” hp proliant dl360 gen9 vmware compatibility
HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9. Supported ESXi versions: 6.0, 6.5, 6.7. 7.0: Limited support (deprecated drivers). 8.0: NOT LISTED. And in the quiet hum of the data
His daughter still brings up that missed pizza night. But she also knows that sometimes, Dad saves the company not with heroics, but with a boring spreadsheet and the courage to say “no.” Don’t do this in production unless you hate sleeping
Mark closed the tabs. He knew what he had to do.