Already-purchased licenses can still be used but will eventually lose support.
  • BoofStroke@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Proxmox is a decent option, or just use kvm provisioning directly with ansible.

    • You999@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Proxmox is not a complete replacement for VMware. Proxmox still does not have a distributed resource scheduler or distributed power management for it’s cluster which means the only time a VM will move between nodes is if a node goes down.

      There’s no official support for VDI within proxmox and all the third party tools are janky at best, definitely not ready for enterprise level deployments.

      Nvidia does not officially support vGPUs on proxmox. You can get it working but it’s definitely not something you’d want to run on production.

  • penquin@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    They paid $61B for it, they’re going to do everything in the book to make it back.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Broadcom has moved forward with plans to transition VMware, a virtualization and cloud computing company, into a subscription-based business.

    However, in May, soon after announcing its plans to acquire VMware, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan signaled a “rapid transition” to subscriptions.

    For years, software and even hardware vendors and investors have been pushing IT solution provider partners and customers toward recurring revenue models.

    VMware’s blog this week listed “continuous innovation” and “faster time to value” as customer benefits for subscription models but didn’t detail how it came to those conclusions.

    A CRN report in late November pointed to VMware partners hearing customer concern about potential price raises and a lack of support.

    Howdyshell, CEO of Advizex, which reportedly made $30 million in VMware-tied revenue in 2022, told the publication that partners and customers were experiencing "significant concern and chaos” around VMware sales.

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