Broadcom “preventing some vendors from selling products to us,” AT&T alleges.
my previous employer was at work scripting their own workarounds for stuff like DRS and distributed switches so they could drop down to the standard licenses.
Move to open solutions. You buy a Proxmox license and you get it all.
If you don’t like Proxmox you could even implement something yourself as it is all open solutions. Libvirt supports live transfers with little effort.
I’m very broken up about this
Wow. I think the six people on the planet Earth who didn’t see this coming after the buyout last year will be shocked.
I mean we’ve even got a bingo card so to say of what to expect.
it seems AT&T may be interested in looking for alternatives to VMware?
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2022/10/19/migrate-from-vmware-to-xcp-ng/
They have a huge amount of machines. If I am remembering correctly it was something like 8,000 physical servers with a lot more VMs.
I used to work for a major telecoms compass until recently, working on their VMWare stack and to say they are a major customer of VMWare is to put it mildly. The cost for VMWare has skyrocketed after the Broadcom deal, so while the team were gearing up for the next gen system utilising more tools from the ESXi stack, now that’s entirely abandoned and instead they’re tooling up to replace it. That’s over 500,000 VMs across a dozen or so datacenters. Broadcom’s actions may make them a lot of money in the next few years as their customers are forced to pay this huge hike, but it won’t last for long.
Broadcom is not playing the long game. They will milk VMware and then dump it or dissolve the company.
Funny enough Broadcom is not doing so well right now (check there stock)