I've already dumped my esxi servers and am using proxmox and hyper-vm instead.
That's one less customer for them.
VMware customers face uncertain future as Broadcom ends VMware partner programs
Submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
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Bizarroland@kbin.social 10 months ago
Shadow@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
We’re trialing migrating windows workload to hyperv. We pay for windows licenses anyways so hyperv is free, and it’s come a long way. Veeam supports it, so keeps the change minimal.
ikidd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, it could only get better because when I tried to deploy it widely about a decade ago it was an utter steaming pile of shit. I went and got my VCP instead.
WordBox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
2008 was pretty shit. 2012 was pretty good. And now 2016+ has a lot more features.
The best and worst part about it is that it’s Windows.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 10 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It’s unclear who or how many current partners will be able to sell VMware-related offerings after April 2024, leaving potential for tens of thousands of businesses to be disrupted.
But today’s news reportedly reveals a final closure date for the cloud services provider partner program, which debuted in 2019.
The Register noted “unconfirmed fears” that only 10 percent of the biggest VMware cloud service providers would be invited into Broadcom’s partner program.
VMware has about 4,000 service provider partners, according to a January 4 report from CRN, which claimed that only 10–15 percent of them are expected to get invites into the Broadcom program, citing an unnamed source.
By altering how VMware tech is purchased, long-term customers may be forced to change critical infrastructure or work with a new, potentially much bigger, provider than they’re used to.
There’s a deeper concern that Broadcom’s VMware won’t prioritize smaller customers during this evolution.
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Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Really enjoying XCP-ng so far. A steep learning curve, but worth climbing imo.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thank fuck, maybe we can get away from VMware MDM.
deafboy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just finishing the migration from cloudstack to vcloud director.
I’m not angry, just disapointed.
DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 10 months ago
SGG@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s simple. Either you are one of the few enterprise customers they want to keep (of which there are only a handful), or you need to have started a transition away from VMware the moment the purchase was announced.
Which completely sucks for the industry.
bluGill@kbin.social 10 months ago
Who are the customers they want? I know of companies in the fortune 100 moving away. They don't want me to name then so I won't.
SGG@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No idea which customers they are specifically, my comment was based on this article, which is basically acting as a summary of some of the Broadcom investors day presentations: theregister.com/…/broadcom_strategy_vmware_custom…
It’s not so much that they don’t want the rest of the customers to stay with VMware, its more so a disregard for them moving forward.