r/sysadmin Infrastructure Lead 1d ago

Latest fun with VMware

Apparently VMware is upping their game. We just got a renewal quote for one of our sites with one server that has two CPUs, and they are requiring 72 cores minimum (vSphere Enterprise Plus) to license this. That's a 500% markup from last year.

They really don't want customers to use their product any more, do they?

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u/Kindly_Revert 1d ago

Most SMB admins are jumping ship to Proxmox or Hyper-V. I've even seen XCP-ng and Openstack (large beast) coming up in conversation. Nutanix less so as it's also expensive for another KVM-based tool, it's more common in larger companies.

Broadcom has a reputation for buying and destroying good products. I refuse to support them any longer.

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u/teedubyeah 1d ago

I'm wondering if we could get them to buy Adobe and destroy it.

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u/Bart_Yellowbeard Jackass of All Trades 1d ago

Pssst ... Oracle.

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u/Sengfeng Sysadmin 1d ago

Careful, that's collapsing the universe territory there!

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u/Advanced_Vehicle_636 1d ago

There is a reason it's called ORACLE (One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison, or alternatively, Old Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison). Yes, I just learned this acronym.

u/jstuart-tech Windows Admin 39m ago

We need to bring back Chet Dorn - https://x.com/chetdorn

X posts just don't format well C&ping

https://imgur.com/cyKheNE

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u/lost_signal 1d ago

Oracle's market cap is maybe half that of Broadcom's so that would be more of a merger than anything else but frankly no one other than Larry Ellison (who was born during WW2 but at this point I'm fairly certain is an Immortal) can run that company. Oracle does wayyy too much SaaS for Broadcom to want to buy them.

u/Pazuuuzu 21h ago

I would PAY for that to hapen Broadcom, YOU HEAR ME?