Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to ‘get butt back to office’ after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies::In a meeting on Tuesday after completing the $69 billion merger, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told VMWare employees their days of working remotely were over.

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    11 months ago

    Since they already deal with a fair few of VMware’s customers themselves, I’d say they probably bought VMW to bolster it’s software offerings. They seem to be wanting to get rid of a lot of the staff there, so customers tend to build relationships with their vendors, and burning those bridges ain’t going to help there.

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      11 months ago

      VMware is effectively a monopoly on entreprise virtualization. What else are the costumers going to pick?

      HyperV is a joke, promox is amazing but it’s free software, and every other relevant provider is just a layer on top of VMware.

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        11 months ago

        Aside from the fact that it runs on Windows, what makes HyperV so bad?

        I’ve used it a bunch and it seems fine save for some weird quirks with OSs older than 2012 R2

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          11 months ago

          We have several big clusters built on mixed virtual and bare bone. I would our system engineer to manually build on virtualbox before even touching hyper-v (which we clearly don’t!). For some political reasons our IT forced us to test to build a solution on hyper-v (cost saving on some non critical infrastructure proposed by some very non-tecnical people), I still have nightmares. I am not even the person who had to do it in practice.

          It is long to explain it here, just give it a try. Windows server and all releted solutions are simply bad for real workloads. Who use it on server is just a company who doesn’t need to be productive on the IT side. Their core business is not tech related and they don’t care other than getting cheap sys admins

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          11 months ago

          Well, I mean, that. It’s very capable but Microsoft gimps it by bundling it with windows server. The fact you have to use RDP to administer it is itself a non-starter.

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            11 months ago

            You don’t need to use RDP though. In fact, MS really wants you to use remote powershell or admin center.

            Although you could also use whatever 3rd party remote tools you want because you’re just running Windows Server