Submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/10/broadcom_ends_vmware_partner_program/
Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers - ‘How can they cancel a major program affecting hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers, with zero notice?’::‘How can they cancel a major program affecting hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers, with zero notice?’
And that’s why I prefer KVM, even in corporate environments: I don’t need to care about licensing and dropped support.
The HA, vMotion, DRS and other features.
But I agree. KVM gets better every year. Proxmox is an excellent example of what is possible with KVM.
Proxmox is getting there.
HA: I implemented HA recently and even without a SAN or Ceph, you can get HA with ZFS replication to work. I have it HAing my OPNsense router amongst other VMs, and I’ve had it fail over flawlessly when a SAS card in one node shit the bed and dropped the node. I didn’t even notice it had failed over to another node until I looked at the logs.
Vmotion: Live migration has worked well for a long time, doesn’t even drop a ping. I move nodes all the time for node upgrades and have never seen it fail.
DRS: I haven’t seen this work yet and I only run 3 nodes with light workloads, so I can’t speak to how well it works. But it’s been there since 7.3
PBS: this is a worthy competitor to Veeam. Great dedup, replication sync for backup, restores are painless at the file and the guest level.
Get back to me when I can install it on Rocky or alpine.
Cant hack paper
Why did they even bother acquiring them? I’m lost.
Patents?
To squeeze the hell out of it while it dies. They’re being that people can’t move quickly off the technology, and jacking up license costs by 30%
Please let all VMware employee(only the most worthy) move and create a new company that makes the same product. Call it zmware and change up the ui a bit but steal all those customers (like me) right back
Google envy?
Google has broadcom envy to be honest. This is their MO
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 11 months ago
Broadcom can’t afford to get distracted with servicing those small business after laying off thousands of vmware employees. They’ll have to make sure the handful of remaining vmware employees to focus milking their biggest customers instead.
kautau@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Step 1: Fail at trying to acquire Qualcomm
Step 2: Successfully acquire CA Technologies, keeping all those mainframe companies on their mainframes for exorbitant fees
Step 3:
Step 4: Aquire VMware, so now you own the business of people trying to get out of mainframes
Step 5: As you said, milk the huge enterprises with critical technology stuck in either mainframes or virtualization of their tech because they would rather pay the monthly fees than the upfront investment of moving to more modern systems
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
And they will do Vmware partners again. With hand selected partners
CaptainProton@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As an enterprise, I would not add any more dependencies on a vendor who rug pulled a block of their customers. We use VMware, we use practically everyone to some degree, and at least at my shop every team works with more than one stack so it’s not like the talent is locked in. This is a huge black mark for BROADCOM next time a team is starting a project or program in general.
That being said, the decision is understandable because VMware’s days are numbered: they were instrumental to moving from on-prem to the cloud, but I cannot actually think of any use cases where we used them for anything NEW.