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Broadcom closes $69 billion VMware deal after China approval (www.reuters.com)
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[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 41 points 7 months ago

Next week's news: broadcom increases the price of VMware licenses ten fold and halts all feature development.

Source: they did it to Symantec. Broadcom is where tech goes to be milked to death.

[-] FailBait@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

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…

[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] graveyardchickenhunt@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Not like they didn't add that 32 core power license limit once big epyc CPUs came out...

I don't care so much about that, more so about the "everything is a subscription" bullshit. Hope they are least keep the offline variant...

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Hope they are least keep the offline variant...

It's nice to have dreams lmao :'( ah well it's proxmox for now

[-] davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] bfg9k@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Mergers of this scale should not be legal.

[-] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Just use proxmox

[-] davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[-] shaggy959500@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

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….

[-] randombullet@feddit.de 10 points 7 months ago

I'm happy I started with Proxmox so I didn't need to relearn another hypervisor

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

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

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

I was certain that this was signed like 2-3 years ago, huh, tough luck to VMWare admins I guess.

[-] 123@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Windows Hyper-V team right now: https://tenor.com/bZtum.gif

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