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.
Mergers of this scale should not be legal.
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.
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.
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….
I’m happy I started with Proxmox so I didn’t need to relearn another hypervisor
Honestly I’m surprised that they aren’t targeting us markets more. It seems like a market that they could get into if they partner with the right companies
I was certain that this was signed like 2-3 years ago, huh, tough luck to VMWare admins I guess.
Windows Hyper-V team right now: https://tenor.com/bZtum.gif
