HyperV looking like a good option for a lot of customers now. They are in the Microsoft noose anyway… so now they can go all in.
DiaperV can go die in a fire. I’d move to Nutanix
Thankfully Microsoft is a thrustworthy partner with the users best interests in mind. /s
At home Proxmox works reall well. When our VMWare licenses expire we’ll certainly evaluate that as option.
I’d start now… these transitions usually take a bit. And Broadcom will only get more predatory. Staying with VMware is not a realistic option… especially if you rely on a support partner. With these mega corps only the other mega corps will get proper support… the rest can crawl in a hole and die
So now is the time to figure out what replacement fits best, check your team for capability gaps and send your VMware people to courses to get intimate with the replacement.
This 1000% because you know for fuck sure that some dev in the corner of a building that’s going to be the last holdout.
Start planning now with an implementation plan to complete a few months before the contract is set to expire. Plans like these often hit bumps and delays.
Once you’re down to the last 5%, tell them “Join or Die”.
Yeah… or… if your team insists on keeping VMware only for you, you will need to pay for licencing out of your own budget.
That’s good advice, we will. Thank you.
Openshift is also a good competitor product if you’re interested in containers.
Microsoft is sunsetting Hyper-V Server (Not Hyper-V itself) so now you have to run Hyper-V on a bloated Windows Server install. Too bad because Hyper-V is actually a decent hypervisor and Microsoft is shutting out a lot of their smaller customers who don’t have the money for tons of exhorbitant licensing.
I even use Hyper-V for my self hosted setup but I’ll be forced to switch in a few years whenever my host server is ready for retirement.
They also offer the Azure Stack HCI platform, which is the modern version of hyper-v, but goddamn is it a pain in the ass (and requires active connection and subscription to azure for onprem workloads).
It’s alright, but it’s my least favorite of the 3 platforms we run.
I think administrative overhead is the hidden cost that a lot of technology vendors fail to consider. Microsoft is especially guilty of this. Is a “good” product that requires an obscene amount of esoteric knowledge and experience to maintain really that good?
Yeah, I’m definitely not the biggest fan of HCI, especially the reporting aspect of it. I had to write my own damn reports just to see how badly we over provisioned disks once we found out it only reports on actual utilization.
I tolerate Microsoft products and admin them, but damn they’re annoying to use at times.
Why would MS not use this opportunity to also hike the prices of their equivalent offerings? 1000% increase leaves a lot of room for an increase while still being cheaper.
They absolutely will. Maybe not tomorrow.
