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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 by malfist »

fsuts wrote: post #110
bigfatkitten wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not automatically published on the internet, and confidential aren’t the same thing. Phone, email or visit the court registry.

You need permission of the court(I.e. Judge ) as per CPR Phoning will get you the national Contact centre, emails may or not any not be replied to… court registry needs an appointment… It’s all very nuanced. Until you know how it all works, you don’t know

There's a hell of a difference between "court filings are secrete and the media is censored to not talk about that" and "there's a process, but I personally don't know how to follow it"

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

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Post by [deleted] »

roryirvine wrote: post #194
fsuts wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My friend, please don’t act like an expert when you happen to be talking to one… Magistrates court trials are not recorded so no transcripts. So a malicious prosecution is easy to pursue. When one files for a transcript in courts that are recorded, the transcript is first sent to the Judge and the judge is allowed to change anything they like, with no transparency. They can also refuse a transcript if they feel like…

Mags courts are for petty offences, nothing like this. Contract law and Torts will be heard at the High Court, and transcripts are available via EX107. The only exceptions are when the judge imposes reporting restrictions or anonymisation (unlikely in a non-criminal case as it's meant to protect the identities of complainants or sensitive witnesses) or for ex parte actions (which are very limited, eg. to cover an eme…

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

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Post by sofixa »

donavanm wrote: post #115
nix0n wrote: post #105

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> that server is almost certainly going to be a VM and not bare metal I understand that this is normal but I've never understood it. If all the containers are running the same company's applications (so they don't care about security boundaries between them), what's the difference between having all the containers under the same kernel vs separate kernels?

The VM layer gives you an aspect of fungibility that commodity hardware doesn’t. It’s being able to over provision, dynamically reallocate hardware resources, or do things like live migration and entire system snapshots. That hardware/system management aspect is what VM’s give you and containers don’t. Note: if you want to conflate “containers“ with an entire job management and scheduling system (“k8s”) then you’re n…

> It’s being able to over provision, dynamically reallocate hardware resources, or do things like live migration and entire system snapshots. That hardware/system management aspect is what VM’s give you and containers don’t.

None of those matter in the slightest with containers. Why would you need to reallocate hardware resources when the containers can run on another piece of hardware? You would snapshot the relevant storage, not the whole OS and kitchen sink.

VMs as an intermediary between hardware and containers is just a waste of resources - both directly (RAM, CPU, storage to run a useless OS with no benefit) and indirectly (all of those VM's OS needs maintaining and patching).

It's basically a hold over from the olden days of "everything is a VM".

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

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Post by inigyou »

rwmj wrote: post #179
eterm wrote: post #178

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In really grinds my gears that the buying companies take out the debt to take over against the companies themselves. So many well-known UK companies have been sunk by debt interest on loans taken out to acquire said companies. By all means use the companies to secure loans, but the liability should be on the books of the parent companies not the companies being acquired! There have even been cases where the companies…

It should simply be illegal.

It's the bank's problem. The bank is supposed to determine whether it's likely to be repaid in full, and if not, don't issue the loan which blocks the sale.

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

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Post by inigyou »

remus wrote: post #165
joelthelion wrote: post #160

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This in turn introduces a lot of economic inefficiency, for no good reason. I think regulation would be useful here.

> I think regulation would be useful here. Or vendors just abiding by contracts they've already signed!

If you have a contract that says the price is $1k, pay them $1k and don't answer their calls. They can sue you and they'll lose.

If you have a contract that says they can change the price at any time, and you're a business, that's on you.

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

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Post by inigyou »

malfist wrote: post #211
fsuts wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need permission of the court(I.e. Judge ) as per CPR Phoning will get you the national Contact centre, emails may or not any not be replied to… court registry needs an appointment… It’s all very nuanced. Until you know how it all works, you don’t know

There's a hell of a difference between "court filings are secrete and the media is censored to not talk about that" and "there's a process, but I personally don't know how to follow it"

What's the purpose of the process?

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

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Post by thisislife2 »

port11 wrote: post #151
lenkite wrote: post #150

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

I started building one some years ago, until a friend pointed out that I’d be unemployable and probably targeted.

Crowdsource it - do it on Wikipedia?

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

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Post by ethbr1 »

saagarjha wrote: post #191
port11 wrote: post #151

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I started building one some years ago, until a friend pointed out that I’d be unemployable and probably targeted.

I guess one of the people who made their millions and retired should do it

Sounds hard to do from a yacht...

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

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Post by fsuts »

roryirvine wrote: post #194
fsuts wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My friend, please don’t act like an expert when you happen to be talking to one… Magistrates court trials are not recorded so no transcripts. So a malicious prosecution is easy to pursue. When one files for a transcript in courts that are recorded, the transcript is first sent to the Judge and the judge is allowed to change anything they like, with no transparency. They can also refuse a transcript if they feel like…

Mags courts are for petty offences, nothing like this. Contract law and Torts will be heard at the High Court, and transcripts are available via EX107. The only exceptions are when the judge imposes reporting restrictions or anonymisation (unlikely in a non-criminal case as it's meant to protect the identities of complainants or sensitive witnesses) or for ex parte actions (which are very limited, eg. to cover an eme…

Everything you have said is off the mark.

Magistrates don’t deal with what you term petty offences, their powers have been steadily increasing over time. And indeed any conviction has serious affect on a person even after spent.

The rest of your post is also that of a person with very basic understanding of the matters. So not sure why you commented.

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

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Post by ndsipa_pomu »

nubinetwork wrote: post #2

> Tesco is also dealing with migration challenges related to data security because its new, unnamed virtualization software is incompatible with the Veeam and Zerto products it uses. What is a VMware alternative, that isn't compatible with backup software? I'm guessing it's not nutanix?

Running machines under basic Linux KVM (Kernel Virtual Machines). Veeam have started supporting it, but only on RedHat.
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