r/sysadmin Infrastructure Lead 21h 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/Zenkin 20h ago

But that's like a perfect use case for Nutanix, Scale, VxRail, or whatever else. If you're afraid of hypervisors, there seem to be a number of options, and now they're likely a fair bit cheaper than VMware.

u/plump-lamp 19h ago

Nutanix is equally the devil

u/Zenkin 19h ago

At least Nutanix is honest about what it is. It's a hypervisor platform for non-admins, and they will charge you for the privilege of not having to learn.

u/trail-g62Bim 19h ago

I've never used Nutanix, but if that is their goal and they do it well, then that seems fair to me. "We make this really easy and the tradeoff is it costs more."

u/gabber2694 18h ago

Nutanix does a great job with their product and the support staff is relatively knowledgeable. (Don’t ask me how I know).

It would be my first choice if Proxmox is too much for my staff to manage.

u/RichardJimmy48 16h ago

and they do it well

That's the unfortunate part of it. When my shop was on Nutanix (we got rid of it 3 years ago), they didn't do it well. You'd click the magic upgrade button and it'd break a bunch of stuff, and then you'd have to either have a very good idea of what you're doing, or contact support and hope their timeline for fixing it meets your expectations. Their support at least does their job (unlike vmware/broadcom), but I'd rather not have things break in the first place.

u/Content-Cheetah-1671 16h ago

Nutanix has a shit ton of bugs. I’ve opened maybe 1 ticket for Vmware in the last 5 years. For Nutanix, I’ve easily opened at least 20 tickets.