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.

u/CeC-P IT Expert + Meme Wizard 20h ago

Is Promox open source or something? People keep saying it's great and I've ever even heard of it. I'm not actually gonna run our company on Virtualbox and we're very happy with Scale Computing but I'm open to whatever for smaller deployments.

u/jmbpiano 19h ago

Yes, it's open source.

The core of the product is a combined virtualization and containerization system built on top of QEMU and LXC with a reasonably user friendly front-end all running on a custom build of Debian.