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Realistically these products aren't being killed; they'll still be available in subscription bundles just not as perpetual licenses.
The 1st party link has a much clearer title "VMware End of Availability of perpetual licensing and associated products" https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/96168?lang=en_US&ref=thestac...
E.g. it's not that NSX as a whole is discontinued it's that NSX perpetual licensing is discontinued and you must buy the NSX subscription licensing. Some of these other SKUs may not have an equivalent but for anything "big" like NSX or vSphere there will be.
Realistically these products aren't being killed; they'll still be available in subscription bundles just not as perpetual licenses.
According to VMware/Broadcom in 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.” It reads like these products and any way to purchase them have been axed. What am I missi…
https://news.vmware.com/company/vmware-by-broadcom-business-...
I remember when Nicira/NSX and the concept of SDN was groundbreaking stuff. Hyperconverged had just become a thing, and VMware was the brightest star in the galaxy. Seeing it shuddered is pretty powerful.
@Dang the current title, and maybe article linked, is going to cause a titanic misunderstanding in what's happening. The 1st party link has a much clearer title "VMware End of Availability of perpetual licensing and associated products" https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/96168?lang=en_US&ref=thestac... E.g. it's not that NSX as a whole is discontinued it's that NSX perpetual licensing is discontinued and you must buy th…
Realistically these products aren't being killed; they'll still be available in subscription bundles just not as perpetual licenses.
> Realistically these products aren't being killed; they'll still be available in subscription bundles just not as perpetual licenses. But the OP says: > Listing the 56 VMware products and platforms being killed off, VMware said: “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…
Broadcom watched Arm sue Qualcomm, and was like, hold my beer. Revenue for VMware was 13.6B last year. They would have to maintain that for 4 more years just to break even on revenue. There is zero chance they will make a profit on this acquisition.
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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.
People are snapshoting the hell out of those pages on the wayback machine! The world is going insane right now.
Broadcom is burning more actual value than Elon Musk.
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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.
Unfortunately post-IBM aquisition, Red Hat's closest equivalent (RHEV) was killed off. You've got OpenStack and k8s VMs now, neither of which are really what people running VMWare are looking for I suspect.