VMware Kills Off 56 Products

Post by lightbritefight » Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 8:16 AM UTC

justinclift wrote: post #76

wpm wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm already not going to renew my VMUG membership, and am planning to switch my VSphere cluster over to Proxmox.

Are you using live migration of running VMs, or wanting it to work in Proxmox? Asking because in my testing of that in Proxmox 3 and 5 node clusters last month, the live migration would fail (aka just hang with no further progress) just over 20% of the time. Haven't looked into it further (likely will though), but searching around online shows lots of other people having experienced the same issue. General sentiment…

Post by xz18r » Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 8:30 AM UTC

timekiller wrote: post #40

timekiller wrote: post #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.

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

Post by justinclift » Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 12:29 PM UTC

lightbritefight wrote: post #81

justinclift wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you using live migration of running VMs, or wanting it to work in Proxmox? Asking because in my testing of that in Proxmox 3 and 5 node clusters last month, the live migration would fail (aka just hang with no further progress) just over 20% of the time. Haven't looked into it further (likely will though), but searching around online shows lots of other people having experienced the same issue. General sentiment…

Check put XCP-NG if youre looking in this space. Its a mature xenserver fork with a much improved interface. Migrations work well, and it has a comparatively inexpensive vsan equivalent that works well if you prefer a hyperconverged route.

Post by hacktivity » Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 12:47 PM UTC

lightbritefight wrote: post #80

nunez wrote: post #69

Inaccurate. VMware is consolidating its ABSOLUTELY INSANE list of SKUs down to a handful. Yes, some products are getting put down (I.e. no longer maintained, with support ending way later), but not 56 of them, and definitely not NSX (makes HUGE money for VMware). Source: I work at VMware in presales

You should tell whoever wrote this kb and the associated articles that the language is opaque, confusing and contradictory. Your potential customers will not enter your sales funnel with this kind of strange and misshapen noise happening about your products.

Post by tecleandor » Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 2:16 PM UTC

lightbritefight wrote: post #80

nunez wrote: post #69

Inaccurate. VMware is consolidating its ABSOLUTELY INSANE list of SKUs down to a handful. Yes, some products are getting put down (I.e. no longer maintained, with support ending way later), but not 56 of them, and definitely not NSX (makes HUGE money for VMware). Source: I work at VMware in presales

You should tell whoever wrote this kb and the associated articles that the language is opaque, confusing and contradictory. Your potential customers will not enter your sales funnel with this kind of strange and misshapen noise happening about your products.