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unless something has changed recently, openstack is a horror to setup and administer. the point of vmware is that is fairly trivial to go from a single server
by KaiserPro 3y ago
unless something has changed recently, openstack is a horror to setup and administer.
the point of vmware is that is fairly trivial to go from a single server with some VMs, to a massive cluster with live zero-downtime migrations. (and have funky storage, get working snapshots and backups.)
Sure openstack can do that. but its non trivial to setup.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoWe used Openstack for a while, but overall it was a nightmare. I'm sure it's better than it used to be, but it is not simple to spin up or maintain, and it's not designed to baby VMs -- if one acts up they expect you to delete and recreate it, which works OK for microservices but not for huge Windows terminal servers.
- freeopinion 3y agoI see companies hire a team of experts who plan and architect for six months to a year before they are ready to deploy a new VMWare cluster. I've seen a two or three rack cluster cost a million dollars before the architecture team requisitioned a single piece of hardware or software. I've seen a very small outfit spend six months with all hired consultants to set up a 3-server VMWare cluster. VMWare doesn't seem that trivial.
- bogantech 3y ago> I see companies hire a team of experts who plan and architect for six months to a year before they are ready to deploy a new VMWare cluster. Then those people are woefully incompetent and will be regardless of the software they're using.
- KaiserPro 3y agoI mean yeah, but thats the cost of hiring consultants. VMware (wasnt) that hard. How many VMs do you need? work out the storage requirements, triple it, plumb it in, get the right licences, and go.