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Xenserver 8+ , Hyper-V and Proxmox are all good options for replacing VMware even for some of the advanced features.

Broadcom, BEST HyperV Salesmen ever

I tried downloading vmware workstation, the process made quit just after 3 steps

It’s funny that people are actually considering hyper v over VMware these days. 🪦 🗺️

World Economic Forum have links to Broadcom. You do the math

The Financialization of Things (FoT) comes to software. The Financialization of Software (FoS).

2:57 we still waiting for quotes, asked 2 different sellers in Germany, no one could provide anything. Evev buyin VMware Workstation license has not been processed since April......

At the beginning of this year we were a 15+ year customer of VMware with no current plans to switch. At this moment, we plan to be completely off VMware within 12 months. It was good while it lasted.

I hope the cloud does “privatize” making what I want to be a very valuable position haha

GO POUND SAND! ! Per CPU CORE... Show em you are not their bitch!

Been ditching all things Broadcom across the board. VMware is the last one. Currently running VDI's in Azure managed by VMware's software.

Broadcom has always been shit.

You will not continue to get VMWare level support under Broadcom. This will be the next area to reduce costs and improve EBITA, support for all will move to India without the engineers you are used to using, or at least significantly less engineers to support you.

I am shocked at how little they understand about what is happening at VMware. Sounds mostly like a sales pitch about how they are full Microsoft. Talks about private cloud but doesn't under stand the VCF stack. All of the products are still there. Bundled at the highest license levels and features. Aria is in the bundles. The product teams have multi year roadmaps. Microsoft and AWS have raised their prices year after year more than other vendors. Microsofts most popular service is Azure VMware Services which is just VCF on Microsoft baremetal. 🤣

Curious, is Azure Vmware Service a good alternative? Does Azure offer better Support or cost control because the service runs in their cloud? Or is Azure native the better alternative? I have lots of very large enterprise customers who are scrambling to come up with alternatives.

We moved everything to Hyper-V and Azure because of this.

I just use free stuff, so it doesn't affect me like those of you working in Enterprise ... godspeed 😢😅

Symantec PcAnywhere..... Ghost (the disk imaging software)...... Pretty Good Protection.... Verisign.... and now VM ware..... Been a customer of these products for years ... then a company comes in and buys them seemingly only to destroy them

This reminds me of Computer Associates years (decades) ago, whose financial model was buying up niche software vendors and living off the licensing fees of entrenched customers.

Broadcom is a company killer. What a complete shit show... I will never use anything they offer.

Friend is converting from VMware to hyper v over the pricing. Ouch.

I remember over 20 years ago installing VMWare workstation for the first time, it was magical. Today hearing the name VMWare makes my skin crawl. Props to all the great engineers that worked on those products. Your management and Broadcom not so much.

VMWare is 100% dead to me. If you're a CTO and you're not planning your exit strategy then there's something seriously wrong with you and you should not have that role.

We are Partners and support small businesses using VMware ranging from one to six hosts since VMware 3. All of our customers have good reasons for running their services on premises. VSphere and VSan are the workhorses in those small shops. We're tending towards Suse Harvester for our hyperconverged needs.

As a customer, the worst part of the new pricing model is that we have to effectively re-buy VMware every 3 years. In other words, I have 3 years to move my company's infra off of VMware, so we don't get r*ped again on year 4.

Broadcom is where software goes to die. --- Former Broadcom/Symantec Engineer --

They require 5 year contracts, it’s a shame what happened

Docker?!

What does VMWare do that Proxmox doesn't?

Proxmox, XCP-NG, Red Hat Openshift, Hyper-V, go cloud, etc.... Looking at all of the above.

I used to consult in VMware for a very long time - moved away from that to hyper-v and then azure in 2012, can’t believe people still use it. And funny enough I consulted in Novell for many years before that and ditched that for Microsoft. As an it professional If you only know VMware and refused to learn alternatives - you only have yourself to blame, it’s been dying for a decade. VMware in Azure is pointlessly expensive and only championed by those that refuse to retrain and innovate.

Excellent discussion whether one is a MSP or not. Thx.

Stay away from Cloud

Broadcom will see one day sunset and soon will be in grave just like Adobe Cloud

Broadcom is price gouging VMware customers plain and simple. In the UK they are relying on central and local government customers (who can't even spell migration let alone design, plan, and execute a move away from VMware) to just pay up year after year with tax payers money. F U Broadcom!!

As we say in Denmark 🇩🇰 Broadcom have shot itself in both feet 😎

The messaging was the most infuriating part. "Something fundamental is changing" "Okay what is the impact on our budget? 15%? 20%?" "Could be, could be more. Could be less." "Why did you even bring this up if you don't know anything about it. Just to increase panic?"

Sorry but VMware was always terrible.. Now I just hope they are disappear.

If you want to kill the self hosted cloud business this could almost be treated as a scam

Look at who the stock holders of broadcom & msft -vanguard - blackrock think about that.

The enterprise customers are incompetent. The know vmware, not virtualization. They are F'd. Not really going to feel sorry for them.

I know there are people (noobs and boobs) that accept otherwise... BUT -- the way things normally work is that whenever company with a product (A) is bought by anyone else -- then despite promises from that new buyer... assume and get used to and prepare for the fact that product A is history! The new company will buy it only to destroy the product. That's the safest assumption to make and history bears that out. The wait-and-see concept is just so patently stupid that I cannot even muster sympathy for those fools.

Is that simon sinecks book ?

You failed to mention XCP-ng based on XenServer (VMware competitor) with a direct feature set is available. Xen Hypervisor is quite mature as VMware as this is the Hypervisor that AWS used for years.

I just love Nutanix.

Broadcom seems to be following the old Martin Shkreli playbook.

Well time for a change... *nutanix enters the chat*

How about healthcare organization (hospitals etc) who still have many clinical data management data systems on premises and are reluctant or impossible to move this from VMware to public cloud.

If you are not one of the top 200 customers, bye bye. Maybe top 100. 14 years at Symantec, 4 years at Broadcom.

As a small provider with about 1200 CPUs, our biggest pain has been the lack of support (now we're forced to go through an aggregator) and the fact Advanced Load Balancer standard was dropped and we are forced to pay full premium price, meaning we've been switching over to HA proxy. I don't know how they were allowed to do this considering ALB standard was the replacement to NSX LB which is about to be deprecated. ALB is the only LB that is integrated into VCD also, so we lose that. As a VMware trained engineer I have lost all excitement for the products.