VMware Kills Off 56 Products

a lot of it is vcenter/vsan/vrealize so pretty big stuff. That being said, they aren't killing it off just killing off the perpetual ownership of those products when you buy a license, now it's subscription based

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Post by jollyllama » Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 9:51 PM UTC

post_break wrote: post #4

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

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Post by mcmcmc » Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 9:53 PM UTC

coolThingsFirst wrote: post #3

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People don't know what vSphere is? Sure bud, and no one's heard of Microsoft Office either

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Post by digitalsushi » Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 9:58 PM UTC

I wonder how this will cut into the hobbiest/learn-at-home crowd with our half width, 1U free-tier-license ESXi servers we learn our skills for our day jobs on.

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Post by radiojosh » Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 10:00 PM UTC

soggybread wrote: post #5

coolThingsFirst wrote: post #3

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a lot of it is vcenter/vsan/vrealize so pretty big stuff. That being said, they aren't killing it off just killing off the perpetual ownership of those products when you buy a license, now it's subscription based

I think it's partially killing off perpetual ownership, but I think I heard they're also killing off a lot of individual SKUs. So you may not be able to get ESXi outside of a full vCloud Foundation subscription, which also includes NSX and Aria and a bunch of other stuff...

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Post by wpm » Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 10:04 PM UTC

digitalsushi wrote: post #8

I wonder how this will cut into the hobbiest/learn-at-home crowd with our half width, 1U free-tier-license ESXi servers we learn our skills for our day jobs on.

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