Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads

Post by Avicebron » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 11:11 PM UTC

kiney wrote: post #8

throw0101a wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> […] could have been using Proxmox all along without any of the licensing and fee nightmares. As a user of Proxmox, and observer of VMware infrastructure in other silos in some IT orgs I've been in, there is no way that Proxmox was a viable solution 3-5 (or more) years ago. Hyper-V could have been used in many instances. I know a few places that chose to start moving to Nutanix even before the Broadcam fiasco. OpenS…

I was working on a pretty big proxmox setup back in 2016...

Post by Neywiny » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 11:21 PM UTC

nubinetwork wrote: post #7

Rather than converting the cold vm disk, couldn't you boot up the vm, dump the disks to stream, and send the streams into another format?

Post by Daneel_ » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 11:26 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #2

Is a magnet torrent available?

Post by simoncion » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 11:30 PM UTC

sigmoid10 wrote: post #12

ramgine wrote: post #9

I got my current job because I could lead the hyper-v to VMware migration project. Just this year I led the VMware to hyper-v migration project. VMware was such a great product (although a bit cumbersome in the VCF environment I managed). It’s really unfortunate it went the way of Broadcom. In comparison Hyper-v feels like a typical Microsoft product. A bunch of different tools created by different teams to do tasks…

I actually had so many troubles with vmware on windows over the years that once I tried out hyper-v for the first time last year, I somehow have never touched vmware again. Sure vmware has better configs, cleaner interface and some very subtle design advantages. But damn, hyper-v just fucking works and it keeps working across updates. I have a VM that has been running for a year and it is still perfectly doing exactl…

Post by quietsegfault » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC

gerdesj wrote: post #10

throw0101a wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> […] could have been using Proxmox all along without any of the licensing and fee nightmares. As a user of Proxmox, and observer of VMware infrastructure in other silos in some IT orgs I've been in, there is no way that Proxmox was a viable solution 3-5 (or more) years ago. Hyper-V could have been used in many instances. I know a few places that chose to start moving to Nutanix even before the Broadcam fiasco. OpenS…

I started migrating my customers from VMware a good three years ago. It does help that I have thirty years Linux experience compared to the paltry twenty five or so of VMware (which was RedHat plus stuff back in day) I also have rather a lot of Hyper V exposure too and I defy you to love its iSCSI and networking, let alone that awful vTPM thingie. It's Proxmox for me, any day. Even when I've completely knackered it I…