1y ago

VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come”

arstechnica.com

Price hikes of over 2x widely expected under Broadcom’s VMware, survey finds

300 director-level IT workers making VMware decisions were questioned.

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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.
- Where are you jumping to? I hear people going Hyper-V and nutanix(?)
  
  Local gov, we were directed to go to Hyper-V... We'll see how it goes
  
  I'm a little scared Hyper-V will turn into Azure
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.
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 the 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.
- Lmao don't go hyper v. Use Nutanix or something
  Saying this as someone who is currently trying to get rid of hyperv internally
  
  Nutanix is not my first choice...
  They are almost as bad as VMware
- 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.

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