For the cost, SMB is going to walk away. There are millions of SMB’s.
Comment on Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
You are either going all in with VMware or you’re dead to them. Full suite or nothing, take your pick.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
SMBs are not the target. Companies with a sizeable vSAN investment, huge amounts of VMware based automation and the fortune 1000 are. MSRP on the cheap license is going to be around $275/core, minimum 16 cores per socket.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s simply short sighted.
So they ignore the Fortune 1000+1 (the up-and-coming 1000). They also stop providing a learning/familiarity path.
I’m already seeing SMBs looking at KVM, Proxmox, Xen, etc. When these young engineers/managers/architects grow and move to Enterprise, what are they going to recommend when VMware is $300/core?
I’m all for (as in I push) recognizing the value of (even expensive) licensing when it reduces engineering costs and complexity, but that’s what I’d call a “metric shitload”.
A mid-size business could easily justify transitioning to just about any other VM solution when faced with that kind of increase. One 16-core host is now $5k in licensing, practically doubling the cost - and that’s an annual cost for years - saddling “future IT” with that cost that can now no longer be invested elsewhere.
Now imagine you have 10 such boxes.
Tja@programming.dev 11 months ago
And a potential 90% discount for big customers?
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Shockingly, no.
signalsayge@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Probably not that deep. I’ve heard there are definitely discounts. That doesn’t count for much though when it still increases your cost 6x.
jj4211@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They are planning to tolerate losing 95% of their customers. Of about 100,000 customers, they only care about 600 of them much, and about 6 thousand kind of, if they want to stick around, but not too much. The rest are fully expected to bail.
fluxion@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Perhaps I’ll try it out for a while before making such a huge commitme… oh, i see…