mosiacmango ,

ROBO licenses are gone. We saw licensing costs for servers at those sites go up 5x.

We have a few years left on our main clusters licensing, but we are already investigating moving off vmware because we expect more of the same.

slazer2au ,

Where are you jumping to? I hear people going Hyper-V and nutanix(?)

JoMomma ,

Local gov, we were directed to go to Hyper-V... We'll see how it goes

IHawkMike ,

Hyper-V is decent. It's VMM that is atrocious. Hopefully you don't have Citrix with MCS catalogs.

Evotech ,

Hyperv has shit automation support and doesn't provide native apis to work with. You need vmm or some third layer to talk to. That's where the shit starts

JasonDJ ,

I'm a net admin so I don't deal much on hypervisors but I'm a bit surprised.

Does it actually have shit automation support, or do you just not like the APIs?

Evotech ,

It does not provide apis like that without third party softeare

JasonDJ ,

You can't control hyperv via powershel, winrm, or wmi?

kelargo ,

Consider Xen?

possiblylinux127 ,
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I'm a little scared Hyper-V will turn into Azure

slazer2au ,

Bit late, the path is already there with Azure Arc

possiblylinux127 ,
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The problem is what happens if they pull a VMware. They could just bump up licensing costs so that you end up spending the same as you would to be in the cloud

slazer2au ,

MS is currently going through some legal battles in the EU about unfair pricing so it will be interesting how that turns out.

mojoaar ,

European retailer here with >3000 stores in EU.

We recently decided to move away from VMware after the Broadcom "takeover". We have three scenarios to cover; datacenter setup, satellite offices (stand alone hosts) & hosting partners.

For stand alone it was an easy choice; proxmox.
For datacenter; hyper-v.
Hosting providers; VMware (their choice).

At moment we are pushing our hosting providers for exit plans from VMware.

As a company we have taken the decision to not support Broadcom pricing structure if we can avoid it.

BigDanishGuy ,

Large companies telling broadcom to go suck a lemon, is definitely what can make a difference for the rest of us in the future... Definitely maybe, possibly make potential a difference.

Evotech ,

Lmao don't go hyper v. Use Nutanix or something

Saying this as someone who is currently trying to get rid of hyperv internally

BigDanishGuy ,

I may only use VMware workstation pro for desktop virtualization for lab use, and I do realize the ramifications for enterprise operations are exponentially greater. But even I am getting a worse service. I used to be able to google an issue, find a link to the VMware forum and just open that. Now *.vmware.com redirects to broadcom.com and searching for the post there seldom finds it again. Absolutely brilliant timing for google to kill cached pages.

The broadcom takeover has fucked us all.

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