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VMware GUTS Customers with 10x Price Increases
VMware GUTS Customers with 10x Price Increases
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We discuss how some VMware customers are being faced with 10x or more price increases in the wake of the Broadcom acquisition changes.
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Capitalism for ya..
Hyper-V is an excellent platform. I install it at every opportunity.
Proxmox here we come
How will this affect cloud computing providers? Are some of them using VMWare, and if so are they likely to switch to something else?
I would have thought that VMWare customers were used to paying insane amounts of money, and maybe even enjoyed it…
I locked in 3 more years for my small 500 core environment (paid roughly the same as I used to per year for perpetual sns) but i have no illusions that will hold. Proxmox is interesting but need vgpu support to mature.
I have a different view on why they're doing this. I think VMWare know the writing is on the wall for the mass-purchasing of hypervisors. Enterprise is moving to hyper-scale cloud for these services and the clear long play is to move away from running your own, servers full stop, and move to cloud native apps. Yes, there will be people running hypervisors on native tin for some time to come – but it will become more and more niche over time. VMWare probably wants to simply get what it can, while it can.
Not that this makes any of his better.
You can tell Patrick is saddened delivering this video and understandably so.
My heart goes out to businesses having to pivot to come out of this on top… Fingers crossed they can achieve this and not loose their livelihoods 🙁 What a scumbag move though by broadcom.. I had no idea
Another good product dying because of greedy corporate takeovers. These takeovers should not be allowed to happen if it will kill the product.
Excellent example why you should never make your business depend on Clud provider.
Removing not-for-profit/academic pricing is hilariously short-sighted. Pirates gonna pirate (not that they have much reason when FOSS choices exist) so they just alienate honest students and non-profits.
As a homelabber – and because I learned my "stuff" using VMWare – I was seriously disappointed and borderline angry when BC announced the end of ESXi (Free) and made the switch to ProxMox over a weekend. Never looked back since. You have to climb a learning curve as usual, but I find it easier to manage, is lighter on my (homelab) hardware etc… It does and still have its quircks, but they are few and easy to manage.
We transitioned from ESXi to proxmox 1,5 years ago. And it was one of the best decisions I made for my department.
Alternate title: “Broadcom enshitifies everything”
One of the things that disuaded us from deploying cucm two years ago was vsphere licensing. Thank god we made the right call. I friend of mine has a customer paying $1229 per month for three vmware hosts. Next month they will be paying $12299. Broadcom needs to be LARTED. Proxmox ftw…
I used to work for an ILEC and Broadcom is smoking crack^H^Hass if they think that ILECs and CLECs are going to be loyal for much longer. T is the first to tell a vendor to FOAD/DIAF if they think a vendor is fscking around on pricing. However I find the timing curious as the day before Broadcom announced this, the fed announced $42m investment for O-RAN, and Broadcom is a member of the associated ACCoRD consortium for O-RAN.
End of LineThe thing my gut warned me for just happened. My colleagues always thought my stance on vmware was a negative nelly one. Now theyre more negative than i am
moved away to Kubernetes + KVM long time ago…
We converted to pro mix about 4 years ago. All VMs migrated not rebuilt except windows ones (which we rebuilt). It is simply better than VMware to manage, though its performance is a little worse. Never got on well with containers, so still using vms, but it’s pretty good at that!
Didn't you used to be Serve the home Computer?
WEF 2030's agenda at its finest:
"You will own nothing, and you'll happy."
Proxmox is more performant, extensible and free to home users.
I work in a company where we are deploying Proxmox for clients, let me say I'm new to the company but we have clients that have been on Proxmox for years and their platforms never faced any problems.
The company took this route since we are a developing country and the difference between getting a VMware license does make a big difference so a lot opt in for thid
Maybe this will be a wake up call to not build something vital on top of proprietary code, where the costs for the license is subject to change whenever the owner feels like getting a new yacht.
Any smart company that saw the Broadcom acquisition news should have immediately converted over to any other stack immediately. If they haven't, good luck.
Uhm, a 50% increase is also a "multiple increase". x1,5
Tell me again how open source is not worth it?
OpenStack ftw
Co-workers from previous jobs I've kept up with have all said the same things: massive increases. One went from sub 100k in licensing to 750k+.
My current job is looking to cut our spend before renewals as we are projecting an astronomical increase. The only question is how many more 0's are gonna be on the bill. We have multiple datacenters running full stack VMware including NSX-T, the Aria Suite, Tanzu Kubernetes, etc. We were looking at dropping Citrix for Horizon too (not anymore lol). We were also in planning stages to further reduce our Oracle and RH licensing to unify on one platform as much as possible. Now we're looking to move as much workload away from VMware as possible.
I started into tech with a computer and robotics class where we learned and worked with ESX thanks to a very passionate teacher. Looking back ESX/ESXi and the rest of the VMware product line has been a major core of my career and to see it butchered and maimed by the new overlords is very sad. I loved working with VMware staff on projects. The VMware Architects and development team members I interacted with were the absolute best. Brilliant minds, fascinating tech, and a passion for their job and company that was downright infectious. They were who I looked up to and always wanted to be. Even the support staff for occasional tickets was top notch and I never had doubts or concerns with their solutions. Now many of them are gone and the interactions just feel lifeless.
It is the end of an era.
The king is dead long live the king.
if i increase my prices 10x and only loose 8x ans many customers now i make more and have less support costs
this is short term profits over market penetration
Our company literally finished setting up VDI on shared infrastructure (so VCCP) in December and we will need to migrate away from it.
Its just a very small arm of the business, so its not a big deal – in the end just a whole lot o wasted hours and resources. Even if we could (which we cant) get good pricing, we do not want to make business with VMware anymore – it went from rock solid, trusted company to the complete opposite. No thanks.
Proxmox, here we come (again).
As an enterprise midrange guy with an actual ELA (not a top customer, definitely not a preferred partner) , I find the pricing has been about the same if not cheaper so long as you have 7000 cores in the environment to put towards the lower tier license. Granted it's a volume game. The problem I have with moving away is that while yeah the floor came up for most people the ceiling for NSX came so far down that it's actually a consideration which is a cool cool technology. I hate change, this was no exception, but I'm glad I made it out alive for the next 3 years so I can slowly shift my stack to something new.
Maybe it’s time to check out Acropolis – NUTANIX AHV?
I wonder if VMware is being dropped by small(er) customers in favor of AWS/GCP/etc. They might just be admitting defeat and exiting the lower value market segments. The smaller you are, the more realistic it is to migrate off premises.
I have come to the conclusion that you have to do everything you can to get away from proprietary software.
I only have one piece of software left to go.
Makes no sense to buy something then gut it….