Honestly I’m surprised that they aren’t targeting us markets more. It seems like a market that they could get into if they partner with the right companies
My management is dead set on getting off VMware as quickly as possible. I’ve spent a lot of the past year and a half setting up test labs and reporting on these potential replacements:
oVirt and RHVC
Nutanix
scale
Azure Stack HCI
VX rail
Harvester and Rancher
A variety of qemu wrappers
None of us are very happy about it but it looks like Azure Stack HCI is the winner so far.
My team has a cost estimate for Azure Stack HCI as that was the winner for us. However, cost to switch is high and we’re just waiting for now. We will see if that waiting is a mistake….
They have already told us out next licenses will be core based instead of socket based. Going to extra fuck over those who chose the AMD for the cheaper per core licensing.
We have some air gapped environments. VMware have asked us to install vRealize to monitor the CPU usage. Then they want us to export a report from vRealize every month and upload it to VMware so they can bill us accordingly.
They do that on their own. VMWare would blow up every deal we tried working with Dell, and our account reps told us everyone in Dell despised the VMWare account teams. The company that struggles to make a shit that doesn’t suck?
And that’s why we’re switching to OpenStack next year…
