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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?
#62I use VMWare Workstation a lot for testing and it's a very good workhorse for that. I hope they won't mess that up.
Re: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
#63Our 5 year ELA for VMware went from 1.5M USD to 12M USD. I work in Higher ed.
Our Hyper-V environment came online a few months ago. It was already included with our ELA with Microsoft so we were able to splash out a bit for some higher tier support.
Granted, we have a separate team working on "genAI stuff."
We started converting virtual machines about 3 weeks ago and we've gotten through ~500 of about 3500 or so.
Our grant based HPC environment is just moving back to bare metal. The VM conversion is just for ad-hoc HPC and then all of our general infrastructure. Some of our larger application servers (SAP Hana) are possibly staying on VMWare if SAP won't support them on Hyper-V.
This summer sucked big time but we'll make it.
Re: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bought out by Broadcom, who realized if you increase prices by 10x and lose 75% of customers, you end with more revenue and less support costs
Hock Tan's only goal is to increase stock value. Period. At the expense of anything and everything else, stock value.
That's how he gets paid - increasing short term stock price.
"Show me the incentives and I'll show you the results" - Charlie Munger
Re: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
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#67What’s next best alternative (regardless of cost)?
Virtualbox
Parallel
Hyper-V
Re: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
#68This 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…
Yes, I'd think Openshift with Kubevirt would be positioned to move in. Lots of Openshift in some of the sectors I've worked with so seems like a natural expansion.
I forgot about MSFT's ability to bundle Hyper-V though which seems to come up in this thread a lot.
Love the username.
Re: Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
#69Virtualization is a 20 years old tech. Quit it.
If you're so ignorant of the space you think virtualization is 20 years old, you're too ignorant to make proclamations about what anyone else should do.
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#70Microsoft gaining the most I reckon.
Kind of sad seeing businesses getting screwed by closed source proprietary software, then making the same choices all over again.
Nutanix also seeing huge demand.
Not everyone is repeating their mistakes, with Proxmox and Xcp-ng seeing huge new level of business, as well, which is nice.
I'm part of the Apache CloudStack project and that too is seeing unparalleled levels of demand. The KVM hypervisor has sort of become the de facto choice, thanks to virt-v2v tool which can help migrate VMware guests.