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Archive: https://archive.today/8GKSJ

From the post: "When Broadcom bought VMware for $69 billion last November, we knew there would be changes. What we didn't know is that Broadcom's radical changes would leave partners and customers alike questioning their commitment to VMware.

Personally, I've never been fond of VMware. But I know many IT people swear by its wide array of products. At least, they did until recently. Now that Broadcom is showing its cards for the virtualization powerhouse's future, it's another story."

Archive: https://archive.today/8GKSJ From the post: "When Broadcom bought VMware for $69 billion last November, we knew there would be changes. What we didn't know is that Broadcom's radical changes would leave partners and customers alike questioning their commitment to VMware. Personally, I've never been fond of VMware. But I know many IT people swear by its wide array of products. At least, they did until recently. Now that Broadcom is showing its cards for the virtualization powerhouse's future, it's another story."

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Sucks. Redhat was popular in enterprise ONLY because all of the techs recommended it as they used it at home for free.

Now, it’s Ubuntu for the same exact reason.

VMware will fail because the people who recommend it for corporate licensing won’t do so anymore.

Rinse and repeat. Boomers don’t understand this and are too focused on milking anything for money. Jew tier grossness.

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Interesting note from my VMware guy, they simplified to a single SKU. So you now have to buy enterprise everything, nsx, the entire stack.

I wonder if there is any way for this to win in the long run. The tanzu stuff looks amazing, the nsx host integration seems pretty incredible as well.

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Usual Broadcom tactics. Acquire, enshitification, spin-off.

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Trouble for customers of the Carbon Black enterprise security products as well. Thursday mid-day probably 80% of the SBU was cut loose. Interesting times.

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Some of my customers, while they are not dumping VMWare right away, are certainly looking at other options and making plans.

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I migrated a company off of VMWare well over a decade ago when they tried to fuck everyone over by changing from per-socket licensing to per-core licensing when multi-core CPU's started getting way more popular.

It just so happened that their change was going on while I was pricing out new hardware and the VMWare license at the same time.

I switched/Migrated the entire company over to RHEL/RHEV (mostly a Linux shop on the backend anyway) and with the money saved I was able to buy 2 more servers and a backup disk array.

Yeah, it meant a lot more work for me on a hardware refresh and migrating a bunch of shit.. I ended rebuilding most of it from scratch which was good anyway because then I didn't have to try to do in-place version upgrades (which often have problems).

Broadcom may have put the last nail in the coffin for VMWare. Dell even dropped their agreement's with VMWare because of this.. Dell happened to also be the largest re-seller of vmware and provided their own support for VMWare that was better than the VMWare support.

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Dell happened to also be the largest re-seller of vmware and provided their own support for VMWare that was better than the VMWare support.

Yeah, running into the Dell/VXRail thing a lot.