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VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by ccunning to c/sysadmin

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Price hikes of over 2x widely expected under Broadcom’s VMware, survey finds

300 director-level IT workers making VMware decisions were questioned.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

ROBO licenses are gone. We saw licensing costs for servers at those sites go up 5x.

We have a few years left on our main clusters licensing, but we are already investigating moving off vmware because we expect more of the same.

[–] slazer2au 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Where are you jumping to? I hear people going Hyper-V and nutanix(?)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Local gov, we were directed to go to Hyper-V... We'll see how it goes

[–] kelargo 1 points 5 months ago

Consider Xen?

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

Hyper-V is decent. It's VMM that is atrocious. Hopefully you don't have Citrix with MCS catalogs.

[–] Evotech 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hyperv has shit automation support and doesn't provide native apis to work with. You need vmm or some third layer to talk to. That's where the shit starts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm a net admin so I don't deal much on hypervisors but I'm a bit surprised.

Does it actually have shit automation support, or do you just not like the APIs?

[–] Evotech 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It does not provide apis like that without third party softeare

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You can't control hyperv via powershel, winrm, or wmi?

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

I'm a little scared Hyper-V will turn into Azure

[–] slazer2au 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bit late, the path is already there with Azure Arc

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

The problem is what happens if they pull a VMware. They could just bump up licensing costs so that you end up spending the same as you would to be in the cloud

[–] slazer2au 1 points 6 months ago

MS is currently going through some legal battles in the EU about unfair pricing so it will be interesting how that turns out.