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Everyone's VMWare licenses are gonna go up so much it'll be hilarious. I wonder if any large shops will jump ship to something else, but to what is the question
by gigatexal 3y ago
Everyone's VMWare licenses are gonna go up so much it'll be hilarious. I wonder if any large shops will jump ship to something else, but to what is the question.
- tw04 3y agoIf Nutanix were smart, they'd decouple the hypervisor from their garbage storage layer and make hay. But they won't... too much pride to swallow that pill.
- MrDrMcCoy 3y agoI'll never forgive Nutanix for murdering EdgeFS. I have not used any of their products, and hopefully never will.
- notacoward 3y agoEdgeFS was pretty much a direct ripoff of multiple open-source projects, including one I worked on, so I'm not going to shed a tear for them. IIRC they even cribbed some of the material for manuals.
- awiesenhofer 3y ago> multiple open-source projects interesting, which ones?
- phpisthebest 3y agoRedHat / IBM had a huge opening to take some of this market share... but then for some inexplicable nonsensical move (common with IBM owned Redhat to be honest) they made the choice to just exit the Onprem Hypervisor space to focus on "Cloud". I know a few organizations and vendors (like Veeam) were looking to RHV to be a good replacement, the announcement to discontinue the product seems to catch everyone by surprise. I am still hoping Veeam will add support for a good 3rd option, proxmox, XCP, direct KVM, something...
- suprjami 3y agoRed Hat didn't exit, they moved from RHEV to OpenShift Virt. Now it's kubernetes scheduling KVM VMs instead of ovirt-engine scheduling KVM VMs.
- linuxftw 3y agoI can't imagine anyone would pay for such a thing. It's a product without a market. People want the VMWare experience, Red Hat just refuses to build it.
- tjscott 3y agoRed Hat built it in RHEV (or rather, bought it from Qumranet and rebuilt the .net in JBoss), but struggled in the market. They had an arguably better product than VMware, and better pricing, but VMware customers were hard to move, and Microsoft priced Hyper-V for Windows guests at cheaper than free.
- phpisthebest 3y ago>>>but VMware customers were hard to move were being the key phrase. Timing is everything, they Announced they were shutting down RHEV. AFTER broadcom announced they were buying vmware, seems like a terrible move in that light given that many vmware customers will be looking for a replacement in the next couple of renewal cycles.
- linuxftw 3y agoVirtualization is a multi-billion dollar market. Even if you're a distant #2, it should be financially viable. The reality was, it was an awful product that nobody wanted. It could be free and it's worse than rolling your own solution directly on top of libvirt.
- prmoustache 3y agoAs a former potential RHEV customer, we had been warned about it 3 years ago by RH themselves. It is not like it was a huge secret and the decision was made a long time before broadcom's announcement.
- moduspol 3y agoThe on-prem VMWare enthusiasts who've been warning for decades about vendor lock-in on the cloud are perhaps about to gain some new perspective.
- INTPenis 3y agoI can't say any names but one very large shop is already jumping. But the jump is chaotic and poorly executed. What are the alternatives?