"Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says
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Re: "Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says
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Re: "Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says
#3I don't think we really need those quotes. Broadcom bought an existing, successful company, and immediately skyrocketed the price of their most used commercial offering.
You don't need a degree in business to surmise that short term profits will also skyrocket but you will eventually lose the market.
Re: "Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says
#4> Other companies, including Microsoft (Hyper-V) and Proxmox, have also been aggressively courting disgruntled VMware customers.
I think I'm among the few in my peer group who hasn't yet started running Proxmox on their home server.
Re: "Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says
#5I don't think we really need those quotes. Broadcom bought an existing, successful company, and immediately skyrocketed the price of their most used commercial offering. You don't need a degree in business to surmise that short term profits will also skyrocket but you will eventually lose the market.
Yup, or that bad view of Broadcom is because of the price hikes.
I had a meeting with IT where I was worried they were finally coming after my proxmox box they "didn't know about". Turns out they saw their vmware bill and suddenly had questions.
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#6> Other companies, including Microsoft (Hyper-V) and Proxmox, have also been aggressively courting disgruntled VMware customers. I think I'm among the few in my peer group who hasn't yet started running Proxmox on their home server.
It's worth it. The increased participation and discussion have given a little momentum in usability, and AI on hand makes the learning curve very manageable. If you're already familiar with vmware, virtualization in general, it's a pretty easy transition.
Highly recommended.
Re: "Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says
#7I know a lot of people who worked at VMware through the Broadcom acquisition. Hock Tan sucks.
Re: "Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says
#8> Other companies, including Microsoft (Hyper-V) and Proxmox, have also been aggressively courting disgruntled VMware customers. I think I'm among the few in my peer group who hasn't yet started running Proxmox on their home server.
Honestly? VMs are a level of complexity I haven't felt a reason to fuss around with at home for at least the past five years. Just not interested.
I'm told that Kubevirt with Kubernetes has also been a winner among customers post Broadcom acquisition who were really reluctant to go beyond VMware previously.
Re: "Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says
#9> Other companies, including Microsoft (Hyper-V) and Proxmox, have also been aggressively courting disgruntled VMware customers. I think I'm among the few in my peer group who hasn't yet started running Proxmox on their home server.
It's worth it. The increased participation and discussion have given a little momentum in usability, and AI on hand makes the learning curve very manageable. If you're already familiar with vmware, virtualization in general, it's a pretty easy transition. Highly recommended.
Agreed!
I switched from VMWare to Proxmox a few years ago because Proxmox supported a wider range of network cards that were more common in the cheap desktop computers I use in my homelab, whilst VMWare almost required an Intel network card (which was usually fine for server hardware).
It was a surprisingly easy transition that I have not regretted one bit. I'm not sure whether there that was an actual migration path, without reinstalling servers from scratch. Homelab meant it didn't quite have the requirements of a production system...
Re: "Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says
#10I stopped using VMware because they stopped supporting newer Linux kernels.
Lack of maintenance => lack of users.