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Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

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Re: Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

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post #131

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If you want a shitty sandwich you can find it for $5 in the US no problem. Plus some variation of the sausage roll that will clean you out just as well.

And by "clean you out" you mean financially or both?

Oh, you'll be able to afford it... but you may end up having to spend some time instead

Re: Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

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post #126

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A sandwich, bag of crisps and a drink for £5 is an actual deal. Sandwich alone in U.S. would be $10 and the “$15 Meal Deal” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Mmh, you can get 3 el cheapo sandwiches for 1.99€, a 100g bag of chips for 0.99€ and a liter of water for 0.90€ or flavoured /coke for 1.99€ in Germany Considering a £ is more then a €, supposedly at last - it doesn't sound like a good deal to me

I don't think I could find a sandwich anywhere around here in Canada save maybe one of those awful gas station ones for under $6

Re: Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

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post #74
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If Tesco needs character witnesses that Broadcom has done this to many other customers, I think they’ll find plenty of willing participants. Broadcom’s marketing for Proxmox is extremely effective.

Looks like proxmox has well-fleshed-out documentation for migrating from vmware: "Although it was written with VMware as the source in mind, most sections should apply to other source hypervisors as well." https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrate_to_Proxmox_VE

Ugh. ProxMox breaks my heart.

Our MSP refuses to consider ProxMox because “we need to support it”… but are happy as clams to throw me outrageous HyperV labor costs.

They’re literally putting me in a position where I either need to fire them because they refuse to use an open source solution and hire people that can read code… or fire them because they want 50,000 to move 15 VMs over to HyperV.

I want an MSP that isn’t scared of things outside of Microsoft.

Re: Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

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post #74
post #4

If Tesco needs character witnesses that Broadcom has done this to many other customers, I think they’ll find plenty of willing participants. Broadcom’s marketing for Proxmox is extremely effective.

Looks like proxmox has well-fleshed-out documentation for migrating from vmware: "Although it was written with VMware as the source in mind, most sections should apply to other source hypervisors as well." https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrate_to_Proxmox_VE

Having done this to a number of clusters, it works really well; TLDR you can have it as simple as mounting the remote ESXi as a datastore and just migrating it straight over in the UI. Or automate it if you have 40,000 of them as Tesco does, though tbqh I'm not sure Proxmox is the solution for that scale of workload.

Re: Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

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post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like proxmox has well-fleshed-out documentation for migrating from vmware: "Although it was written with VMware as the source in mind, most sections should apply to other source hypervisors as well." https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrate_to_Proxmox_VE

Ugh. ProxMox breaks my heart. Our MSP refuses to consider ProxMox because “we need to support it”… but are happy as clams to throw me outrageous HyperV labor costs. They’re literally putting me in a position where I either need to fire them because they refuse to use an open source solution and hire people that can read code… or fire them because they want 50,000 to move 15 VMs over to HyperV. I want an MSP that isn’…

It's honestly been easy as hell to support and upstream support contracts are available for cheap as chips, like a grand a socket a year or less. An MSP could partner with them to offer enhanced support if they were smart! It's just KVM / Qemu / Ceph on Linux, plenty of 3rd parties can provide support for it... just go spin up a cluster in a trio of VMware machines with nested virtualization turned on and take it for a spin.

Re: Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

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post #48

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I'd would assume that this is not a monolithic cluster of 40k vm's but at least tens of clusters. Which puts it in the realm of capabilities of Proxmox.

Before my vacation we (3 colleagues and myself) completedan 8 months long migration (coordination with stakeholders is longer and more complex than migrating a 192TB VM !!!) to 6 proxmox clusters so 20 to 40 clusters for 40k is certainly possible but imo it would be unwieldy.

Would you do it again (ProxMox)?

Re: Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

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post #118

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What's so unbelievable about meal deals? It seems like a really straightforward bundle purchase.

A sandwich, bag of crisps and a drink for £5 is an actual deal. Sandwich alone in U.S. would be $10 and the “$15 Meal Deal” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Gosh, it used to be £3 not that long ago. About £5 for a wrap at Prêt if I couldn't be bothered to go fight with the tourists to cross the road down Kingsway.

Re: Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

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post #123

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A sandwich, bag of crisps and a drink for £5 is an actual deal. Sandwich alone in U.S. would be $10 and the “$15 Meal Deal” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Incorrect. Maybe you familiar with the high cost of living areas. There are similar $5 deals in the United States. The US is a big place and has many, many businesses offering very similar deals.

Thing is, the meal deals are _everywhere_ in the UK. There is no "high cost of living" priced Tesco. Or Sainsbury's. Or 5 other supermarkets.

Re: Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

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post #117

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It’s the same modus operandi as private equity but worse, because Broadcom has the money and technical resources to do interesting things with the technology, but they don’t.

KKR bought Avago, which bought Broadcom and took the name. They are a PE firm

Someone really needs to build an "Evil Companies" list with flowcharts showing the date/time of demonic possession.
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