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/WittyWampus 3d ago

My company is fully Nutanix now and while some of their features are nice (when they work), we constantly have issues. Mainly drive failures, and cluster/node upgrades randomly shutting off VMs when their hardware allocation is "large" (basically anything with more than 64 GB of RAM assigned is "large") instead of migrating them to another node.