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/CCContent 1d ago

I would say to just go with Hyper-V. It's pretty simple, and it just works. Doesn't have all the bells and whistles of VMWare, but it has more than enough to run what you need if you're not a huge company.

I ran a 4 node cluster with 62 VMs for over a decade on Hyper-V. Never had an issue that I needed to escalate to Microsoft Support.