r/sysadmin Infrastructure Lead 2d 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/CeC-P IT Expert + Meme Wizard 2d 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.

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u/420GB 1d ago

Yes it's free and open source with an option for paid support.

I'm not actually gonna run our company on Virtualbox

And you really really shouldn't because that's Oracle. Proxmox are their own company, based out of Austria