41 points

Next week’s news: broadcom increases the price of VMware licenses ten fold and halts all feature development.

Source: they did it to Symantec. Broadcom is where tech goes to be milked to death.

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8 points

They do that on their own. VMWare would blow up every deal we tried working with Dell, and our account reps told us everyone in Dell despised the VMWare account teams. The company that struggles to make a shit that doesn’t suck?

And that’s why we’re switching to OpenStack next year…

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18 points

They have already told us out next licenses will be core based instead of socket based. Going to extra fuck over those who chose the AMD for the cheaper per core licensing.

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Not like they didn’t add that 32 core power license limit once big epyc CPUs came out…

I don’t care so much about that, more so about the “everything is a subscription” bullshit. Hope they are least keep the offline variant…

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5 points

Hope they are least keep the offline variant…

It’s nice to have dreams lmao :'( ah well it’s proxmox for now

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We have some air gapped environments. VMware have asked us to install vRealize to monitor the CPU usage. Then they want us to export a report from vRealize every month and upload it to VMware so they can bill us accordingly.

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17 points

Mergers of this scale should not be legal.

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14 points

Just use proxmox

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My management is dead set on getting off VMware as quickly as possible. I’ve spent a lot of the past year and a half setting up test labs and reporting on these potential replacements:

  • oVirt and RHVC
  • Nutanix
  • scale
  • Azure Stack HCI
  • VX rail
  • Harvester and Rancher
  • A variety of qemu wrappers

None of us are very happy about it but it looks like Azure Stack HCI is the winner so far.

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My team has a cost estimate for Azure Stack HCI as that was the winner for us. However, cost to switch is high and we’re just waiting for now. We will see if that waiting is a mistake….

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