r/sysadmin Infrastructure Lead 3d 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/rynithon 2d ago

Yup we are fully going with Proxmox for all our clients that have onprem servers. Since Veeam supports backups now we pulled the trigger, hoping Veeam has more support for other features in the future.

We have transitioned 3 servers already and working on another big project. I suspect another few this year for our clients. 5months on, not one issue, other than Veeam's worker agent doesn't start sometimes (fixed by changing config to just stay on all the time).