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Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
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Re: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
#22Red Hat is offering OpenShift virtualization, which is Kubernetes with Kubevirt. So some people might just use Kubernetes with Kubevirt. There's also Harvester "open source hyperconverged infrastructure" https://harvesterhci.io/ Or some Xen spinoff like https://xcp-ng.org/ Smaller shops are migrating to Proxmox.
Do not ever use openshift
Re: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
#23Red Hat is offering OpenShift virtualization, which is Kubernetes with Kubevirt. So some people might just use Kubernetes with Kubevirt. There's also Harvester "open source hyperconverged infrastructure" https://harvesterhci.io/ Or some Xen spinoff like https://xcp-ng.org/ Smaller shops are migrating to Proxmox.
Do not ever use openshift
Can you explain why I shouldn't use OpenShift?
Re: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
#24Out of the loop: what's up with VMware?
Broadcom competing with Oracle for most hated company prize:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1jfumvw/broadcom_...
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/euro_cloud_body_ecco_...
Re: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
#25This was question at a very very very slow moving org and industry I was at until about a year ago.
They went to Nutanix right before the broadcom acquisition and never looked back.
They were much happier, and HCI was very nice for k8s nodes.
Re: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
#26Red Hat is offering OpenShift virtualization, which is Kubernetes with Kubevirt. So some people might just use Kubernetes with Kubevirt. There's also Harvester "open source hyperconverged infrastructure" https://harvesterhci.io/ Or some Xen spinoff like https://xcp-ng.org/ Smaller shops are migrating to Proxmox.
Do not ever use openshift
They have a dominant percentage of banking workloads at this point.
Re: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
#27Out of the loop: what's up with VMware?
Imagine seeing a 300% or more cost increase for no particular reason.
Re: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
#28Re: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
#29This is a hot topic among some of my nerdier SME friends, and our conclusion is that the major players are HPE and Nutanix. At least from our perspective over here in Sweden. HPE did a big brain move to support multiple hypervisor backends with their own frontend. The only way to go forward imho. I'm using Proxmox at my current $dayjob, and we're quite happy with it. I come from a big VMware shop and I think most bus…
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Re: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
#30Virtualization is a 20 years old tech. Quit it.