Why would a company have 40,000 VMs?! The scale of computing resources always sounds astronomically different to what I think a service would need.
Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware
Submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/rackspace_vmware_planet9_migration/
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Rogue@feddit.uk 2 months ago
lefixxx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They sell VMs…
tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
… You do realize that they still have hundreds of thousands of VMs in their OpenStack services? Those are VMs too.
Hell back in 2008 Slicehost had more than 40k VMs before Rackspace bought em.
Wait till you hear about places like AWS or Azure…
Rogue@feddit.uk 2 months ago
The article specifically states rackspace are only moving 50 VMs.
The client moving 40,000 is unnamed.
kalpol@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They were Openstack since the beginning. When did they go to VMWare?
tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Different groups selling different things. OpenStack still around, albeit a shell of it’s former scale