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VMware Kills Off 56 Products

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Re: VMware Kills Off 56 Products

#31

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I wonder who vSphere users can even go to

Both AWS and Azure have migration agnets for vShere VMs

"Lift and Shift" cloud VMs is going to be MORE expensive than on-prem.

Sure you CAN do it but not advisable.

Re: VMware Kills Off 56 Products

#34

AWS and Azure rubbing their hands together. We use one of these products and unfortunately will have to abandon ship.

I wonder who vSphere users can even go to

There is also Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager and Azure Stack that might be an alternative for companies that ran Windows on their vSphere environment. I've seen Windows shops already switch to that because the licensing a lot cheaper.

There's also Nutanix, RedHat and other options that people have mentioned here.

Re: VMware Kills Off 56 Products

#35

AWS and Azure rubbing their hands together. We use one of these products and unfortunately will have to abandon ship.

I wonder who vSphere users can even go to

Xen Orchestra is another alternative.

But the issue with this and Proxmox is vsphere is not just the web interface.

Usually a company has Veeam integration for backups, and server creation/decom automations all built on the vmware platforms...

Re: VMware Kills Off 56 Products

#36
I’m at a loss with VMware. We’ve been full vdi since 2011 and can’t afford cloud solutions. Citrix is overkill. Love Nutanix, but can’t use AHV due to VMware horizon. We’ve had zero or thin clients for all workstations. It’s been so easy, until now.

Re: VMware Kills Off 56 Products

#37
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I don't think that's correct - from the article: “All licensing options including Perpetual, Support & Subscription (SnS), SaaS/hosted and subscription, as well as all editions, suites and pricing metrics of each product, unless otherwise noted, are included in this announcement. These products are no longer available for purchase.” Honestly, looking at the list, I'm not sure what they actually still sell.

I guarantee vSAN and NSX are not canceled; they're critical components of the VMware stack.

Here's the actual article from VMWare:

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/96168?lang=en_US

It sounds pretty unambiguous; they go out of their way to note that these products are no longer available by any means and are discontinued, and they list both vSAN and NSX.

But, yeah, just because a company says something doesn't mean it's true, I guess - wouldn't put it past them to say "oh, all these products have been replaced by the new VMWare vCloud Platinum MAX offering" which is just the same products in a bundle that costs ten times as much.

Re: VMware Kills Off 56 Products

#38
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that's correct - from the article: “All licensing options including Perpetual, Support & Subscription (SnS), SaaS/hosted and subscription, as well as all editions, suites and pricing metrics of each product, unless otherwise noted, are included in this announcement. These products are no longer available for purchase.” Honestly, looking at the list, I'm not sure what they actually still sell.

I guarantee vSAN and NSX are not canceled; they're critical components of the VMware stack.

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Re: VMware Kills Off 56 Products

#39

Am I misunderstanding, there is a bunch of vSphere offerings on the list there, but surely they must still sell vSphere in some form to enterprises? Isn't it still common to find as a significant part of most on-premise deployments?

This is the discontinuation of all non-subscription licenses. I.e. vSphere (the software) isn't discontinued rather vSphere (the perpetually licensed product) is continued. You must purchase the new subscription items if you want to renew support. For more minor products there may not be a subscription bundle but for anything in common use there should be.

Re: VMware Kills Off 56 Products

#40

I’m at a loss with VMware. We’ve been full vdi since 2011 and can’t afford cloud solutions. Citrix is overkill. Love Nutanix, but can’t use AHV due to VMware horizon. We’ve had zero or thin clients for all workstations. It’s been so easy, until now.

The company we purchased from is pretty sure VMware is cutting them off. We used to deal with CDW, but cdw’s service went to crap
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