When Broadcom announced the purchase a year or so ago, I abandoned all further VMWare certs, and put the time into getting my head around the alternatives.
I still have to use VMWare for 90% of my job, but I’m absolutely treating it like a locked-in platform, and assuming that anything I learn to do in VMWare, I need to understand the underlying concepts, not just their interpretation, and how I can do similar things on other platforms.
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RalphFurley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve spent the last 15 years working with VMware exclusively. A little nervous about all of this
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 8 months ago
RalphFurley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I took a good look at Apache CloudStack. I of course have been migrating stuff to k8s and working with cloud native stuff that can be hypervisor independent or bare metal even.
I’m this close to an NSX-T cert and that will be the last one. That will be in high demand for quite some time I’d expect.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Is there not an alternative to what you use?
4grams@awful.systems 8 months ago
Same. Since the aquisition, I’ve moved all my home infrastructure off vmware to debian/docker and currently trying to get in front of our next renewal at work. I’ve been ready to pivot if necessary but no one seems to believe me that we need to be ready for our pending licensing converation…
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 8 months ago
You re in trouble my friend.
RalphFurley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve done this for so long I might just be like that old Cobol programmer in need during Y2K at some point.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
More like the veteran nuclear plant engineer who is called out of retirement to mitigate the effects of a core meltdown.