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It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register (www.theregister.com)
submitted 6 months ago by filister to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 112 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Good.

My VPS provider also migrated away from VMWare - got an email saying VMs would be down temporarily during the move, and the main website no longer contains any references to the virtualization tech. I miss my /64 IPV6 😭 but i'll happily give that up if it means Broadcom's dumpster fire comes crashing down as big customers pull the plug and migrate

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Would guess that they probably migrated to proxmox

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I know several large companies looking to Microsoft, Xen, and Proxmox. Though the smart ones are more interested in the open source solutions to avoid future rug-pulls.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So is Xen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I thought Xen and OpenVZ etc. became obsolete with KVM? But it's probably for the best that Xen is still used.

[–] ozymandias117 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Xen is a type 1 hypervisor, KVM is a type 2 hypervisor

It runs on the bare metal itself as dom0

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Doh I meant LXC 🤦 instead of KVM.

[–] ozymandias117 4 points 6 months ago

LXC is for containers, rather than virtual machines

I was just saying “obsolete” isn’t a good description; All three still have uses depending on your goals

LXC is probably better for most people, and I think Podman is one of the best rootless container options

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Yes...? All are except Microsoft, which is why most companies I work with aren't looking that way.

[–] barsquid 6 points 6 months ago

Xen looks great for VPS stuff, and seemed to have good support for vGPUs. That's what I'd choose as a provider. I wish I used it at home but I ended up going with good ol' Linux KVM for USB and PCI support.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Nutanix is another one.