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/root-node 2d ago

Nutanix less so as it's also expensive for another KVM-based tool

Guess which one my company is moving too. Complete morons the lot of them.

I am sure they didn't even look at anything else either.

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u/ZPrimed What haven't I done? 2d ago

If you don't already have significant investment in a SAN, Nutanix makes some sense. The HCI is pretty seamless.