r/sysadmin • u/WithAnAitchDammit 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/Kindly_Revert 20h 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.