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The only IT people I know complaining about this VMWare stuff are the same people who have proudly talked about how “you can get by without programming” well so
by overstay8930 3y ago
The only IT people I know complaining about this VMWare stuff are the same people who have proudly talked about how “you can get by without programming” well sorry folks but those days are over, and the sysadmin who can adapt their company logic to run on AWS Spot Instances is keeping his job, while the rest of the infra team is getting canned because the pretty gui didn’t tell them how to do their job.
When I was doing these migrations for side work I was shocked at how basic most of these VMware shops were. Some terraform and a couple of bash scripts is usually enough to lay off the entire VMware team (3-10 people). Made absolutely no sense the amount of money some of these companies were spending and how little work the infra guys were doing for like, 100 servers.
This one time I got a call from the owner wondering when we’d start billing, turns out their AWS bill was so cheap it didn’t even hit finance that it was their new infrastructure cost, and the dude was just in shock at how incompetent his old team was, he was surrounded by “the cloud is a scam” people for years so he never thought that they were just full of shit.
- sianemo 3y agoWhat an aggressively myopic, narrow view of the situation. The reason "this VMware stuff" is a huge issue is because Broadcom are just absolutely fucking up relationships between every part of the VMWare ecosystem: the vendor relationship, the support relationship, the licensing system, the trust in a product reliability roadmap, just everything. This creates chaos in any org relying on them, at any size and efficiency. Chaos costs a fortune. The reasons that any org has for keeping their server operations on-prem and reliant on VMware are not as blithely dismissible as you are indicating. In fact, the reasons are frankly irrelevant anyway, as even the most impeccably managed migration plans to whichever big 3 cloud vendor you'd like are going to be thrown at least somewhat askew by the recent actions from Broadcom. The volume of clear, unambiguous discussion and media coverage that this is getting goes a long way to smooth over the pain of mitigation strategies with nontechnical leadership.
- overstay8930 3y agoBroadcom hasn’t screwed up anything with the big contracts, only SMEs. That’s the entire business plan. Did you even read the article? This has been going on for a while. Nothing I’ve said is wrong, either. It’s almost entirely affecting the small shops who don’t have resources. Big buys are renewing contracts and calling it a day because VMware caters to them.
- rcarmo 3y agoOh boy, are you mistaken. Big contracts with upcoming renewals have already been approached and are being hit with 3x-5x increases on hypervisor licensing alone (source: I used to be in the ISP/hosting business and have recently consulted on an infra provider acquisition that is hung on this).
- overstay8930 3y agoI know plenty of people in the sales pipeline handling VMWare renewals, they are getting 0 pushback from these massive increases because of my above comment of teams not knowing how to use anything else.
- rcarmo 3y agoThat's just because those customers have already decided to move but will take the renewal for 1 year until they re-skill. Many admins are looking to learn other tech.
- armadillobob 3y ago[dead]