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Is there that much negativity towards VMWare? I got the impression they were generally liked by users? Still enterprise software, but good stuff, and not awful
by danpalmer 3y ago
Is there that much negativity towards VMWare? I got the impression they were generally liked by users? Still enterprise software, but good stuff, and not awful about their licencing like some other companies?
- rfoo 3y agoUntil they were acquired by BRCM. Then oh well, you know, typical BRCM behaviors awaits.
- danpalmer 3y agoYeah I've heard horror stories about them. It was the VMWare bit specifically that surprised me though!
- what-the-grump 3y agoNot really. On the smaller scale there was no reason outside of familiarity to run VMware over hyper-v. This will be a shift for on-prem deployments. For cloud solutions running VMware in AWS/Azure, unless those renewals go up significantly, most of VMwares mrr is already locked in and the people running these setups generally refuse to learn how the cloud works so it’s a pure lift and shift mentality. But the pattern begins, broadcom buys VMware does nothing increase prices. Why would any sane client stay around to get VC squeezed.
- boring-alterego 3y agoOn prem deployments at my sites swapping to hyper v prior to renewal with VMware. We saw the writing on the wall after what broadcom did to us when they bought Symantec.
- rwmj 3y agoThe software always was fairly horrible behind the scenes, albeit with a nice user interface. However I've spent years and years dealing with the sheer awfulness which is VDDK (https://libguestfs.org/nbdkit-vddk-plugin.1.html https://libguestfs.org/nbdkit-vddk-plugin.1.html) which leaves a bitter taste.