VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
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Re: VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
#2Has the free ESXi survived the turmoil?
Re: VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
#3> VMware has been on a journey to simplify its portfolio and transition from a perpetual to a subscription model to better serve customers with continuous innovation, faster time to value, and predictable investments.
Yea, a one-time cost wasn't predictable enough, instead a subscription number that will be changed each year on a whim is predictable.
Got it.
Re: VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
#4My heart goes out to all of the institutions that are about to get hammered by this change, but I would by lying if I said I wasn't excited about a potential increase in investment in open source cloud virtualization infrastructure. Proxmox seems poised to benefit from this; is Openstack in a situation where it could be reasonably rolled out as a substitute for vSphere without requiring significant staff increases?
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#6Has the free ESXi survived the turmoil?
It's probably not the first thing on the chopping block as there's plenty of revenue to be squeezed from vSphere; over the next 2-5 years I don't see a world where the free ESXi will be left unmonetized/uncrippled.
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#7Has the free ESXi survived the turmoil?
Free esxi is pretty crippled at this point, esp for high core counts. Proxmox is the way to go!
Re: VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
#8My heart goes out to all of the institutions that are about to get hammered by this change, but I would by lying if I said I wasn't excited about a potential increase in investment in open source cloud virtualization infrastructure. Proxmox seems poised to benefit from this; is Openstack in a situation where it could be reasonably rolled out as a substitute for vSphere without requiring significant staff increases?
OpenStack provides a different axis of offering than vCenter. It's more aligned for multi-tenant, API driven use cases, ala cloud. Of course, you could open access to only the virtualization team, but they'd likely find the console experience frustrating. VMware even has an OpenStack product that is built on vSphere virtualization and NSX-T software defined networking.
The challenge is that companies architect their services and applications around what they have, and they may be very operationally dependent on specific features of vCenter and how they've configured those features.
Re: VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
#9> VMware has been on a journey to simplify its portfolio and transition from a perpetual to a subscription model to better serve customers with continuous innovation, faster time to value, and predictable investments. Yea, a one-time cost wasn't predictable enough, instead a subscription number that will be changed each year on a whim is predictable. Got it.
If you're running VMware and CA (mainframe), Broadcom owns you at this point.
Re: VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
#10This might be a serious issue for my current client since their entire stack is build on VMware and I was helping to build a massive project that would lift their current setup to a full self service private cloud setup. They were already worried by he acquisition but this...
With the current budget cuts puts the entire project at risk.
I would feel bad for them but today I was informed by my PO that the budget cuts also affect my contract so it will not be extended. The only bitter taste is that the project was meant to improve the infrastructure for citizen services. Kind of have a bad feeling for how this will turn out