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VMWare FUD. Anyone moving away from it professionally? (self.sysadmin)

submitted 10 months ago by Mautobu to c/sysadmin

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I've been seeing a lot of doom and gloom about VMware. The cutting of services and licensing changes of the cost of core offerings are huge issues. Is anyone planning or budgeting to change to another hypervisor? If so what?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (11 children)

I'm not affected by the change but I heard Proxmox and Xen brought up frequently as alternatives.

Of course there are always cloud providers but that's not really a good option for many.

[–] Mautobu 5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I feel like Broadcom is aiming for cloud-like pricing for on prem services with none of the other benefits inherent to an Azure or AWS deployment. Not exactly the way to hold onto clients.

I'm familiar with proxmox and the broader KVM ecosystem. I'm also a huge fan of Veeam, who have said they're exploring support for proxmox. Shouldn't be too difficult to implement, given they have a RHEL backup product already.

Exciting stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think Broadcom intends to dig VMware out of dept to turn it into a profitable company. This means killing off the smaller customers as 90% of the business comes from enterprises that will never switch to anything else no matter the cost.

[–] Mautobu 1 points 10 months ago

This is probably where my shop will end up. Sticking with it and dealing with the higher price.

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