This looks fake. I just imagine someone shorting VMware’s stock on the other side of the keyboard… but who knows.
Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs
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Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs
#22This is Reddit, so taking any claims with a severely hefty earth sized grain of salt.. > Odd part 1: ... moving large numbers of VMs (100,000-500,000) over to Linux based virtualization in very short time frames. > Odd part 4: Every one of these requests involves moving the VMs off VMWare or Hyper-V onto OpenShift, specifically. As a Solution Architect at Red Hat, no sane sales rep would ever recommend or propose mov…
So OpenShift virt replaces oVirt? What was the reason for dropping oVirt?
Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs
#23Fantasy fiction of a sysadmin that uses anonymity on the internet to craft themselves into someone more important than they are in real life.
> Fantasy fiction of a sysadmin that uses anonymity on the internet to craft themselves into someone more important than they are in real life. No. Everything on reddit is true.
On HN too
(On the fence if this story is true or not, it could very well be)
Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs
#24This is Reddit, so taking any claims with a severely hefty earth sized grain of salt.. > Odd part 1: ... moving large numbers of VMs (100,000-500,000) over to Linux based virtualization in very short time frames. > Odd part 4: Every one of these requests involves moving the VMs off VMWare or Hyper-V onto OpenShift, specifically. As a Solution Architect at Red Hat, no sane sales rep would ever recommend or propose mov…
> We are working on making OpenShift Virtualization as capable as we can (considering we're killing the Red Hat Virtualization product [upstream project: oVirt]) but it's not really meant, especially right now, to be a VMware replacemen
Didn't know RHEV was being killed. It makes sense, the enterprise virtualisation market is shrinking by the day, but it's still a bummer there's less competition. Is oVirt being maintained?
> That's what solutions like Nutanix are for.
Nope. Nutanix is for when you want to replace your hardware and software, have specific workloads that fit a hyperconverged hardware deployment, want a good piece of software with a ton of extras that don't really work all that well, being bash and random FOSS smushed together with duct tape. Oh, and you have money to burn.
Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs
#25This definitely feels fake. Either just a fabulist or someone mad at VMware and wants to scare them. CEOs of Fortune 500 companies do not know about the Linux virtualization market.
Yeah this seems odd for a Fortune 500 company’s CEO asking specifically for Linux VMs. There’s not enough hours in the day where these CEOs would be so far down in the weeds of the business that they’re making VM flavor decisions.
I can actually see this happening.
Obviously a fortune 500 CEO does not know jack about IT. But someone has raised the alarm on the price hike and presented a few possible solutions, that have reached all the way to the board.
Given the high risk, tight schedule, and the amount of work something like this must be driven by the CEO (or at least directly sponsored by him) or it will not happen.
Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs
#26I would suggest scanning through a few pages of OPs history to determine for yourself whether this is legit or not.
Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs
#27This is Reddit, so taking any claims with a severely hefty earth sized grain of salt.. > Odd part 1: ... moving large numbers of VMs (100,000-500,000) over to Linux based virtualization in very short time frames. > Odd part 4: Every one of these requests involves moving the VMs off VMWare or Hyper-V onto OpenShift, specifically. As a Solution Architect at Red Hat, no sane sales rep would ever recommend or propose mov…
> We are working on making OpenShift Virtualization as capable as we can (considering we're killing the Red Hat Virtualization product [upstream project: oVirt]) but it's not really meant, especially right now, to be a VMware replacemen Didn't know RHEV was being killed. It makes sense, the enterprise virtualisation market is shrinking by the day, but it's still a bummer there's less competition. Is oVirt being maint…
For LXC and VM's one might consider Proxmox as counterbalance to the VMware walled garden.
Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs
#28I would suggest scanning through a few pages of OPs history to determine for yourself whether this is legit or not.
I tried to follow the advice. It's clearly someone who is working with computers and for a long time. The comments are touching various topics (from tech to society to random stuff) and it's likely that the person is behind a keyboard, not on a mobile phone: comments are rather long on average. That's quite compatible with sysadmin psychological profile.
Hard to say for sure, but at least I am confident that the OP is not a dog!
Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs
#29For what it’s worth, I’ve heard that when the current war in Ukraine started the Moscow/Russian employees of a big US networking hardware company of which everyone on this forum has heard about had their access cut off instantly, as in the invasion started at around 2AM and when the employees tried to get to work that morning they found out they could no longer access the company’s resources.
Which tells me that that company’s HQ had already put a sort of kill switch in place for cases like this.
Re: Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs
#30How is this disturbing? People moving away from Windows must make everyone happy in my book. Probably just leverage in contract negotiations with VMWare as other comments have pointed out though.
It's a different market segment for sure, but at my company we spent considerable engineering resources migrating the codebase away from a proprietary embedded toolchain to gcc. The toolchain vendor's licensing scheme was expensive and annoying, and had no chance of sustainably scaling with the company's growth. They weren't willing to negotiate, and so they priced themselves out of relevance permanently. Maybe they thought we were bluffing?