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i never understood, even 15 years ago, why people still use vmware when so many open source (i.e. virtualbox) systems existed at the time. The fact that Broadc

by jijji 2y ago

i never understood, even 15 years ago, why people still use vmware when so many open source (i.e. virtualbox) systems existed at the time. The fact that Broadcom buys it out and then 10x the price on people is just even more reason to move to open source. As noted in the article, the open source solutions are 2x faster anyway, so they customers can realize a 2x increase in slices per server.

bluGill 2y ago
Vmware is better by our performance tests. Still is better but not 10x the price better.
dessimus 2y ago
The ones staying with VMware, permanently or near term, are likely using products for which there are not good replacements. The open source alternatives can do what ESXi does sure, but its progressively more difficult to replicate VSAN (including stretched clusters) and NSX-T (with distributed firewalling) without bringing in multiple vendors that will all point at each other when there is a problem.
gosub100 2y ago
Because they dumb it down, you pay more for VMware but then you can hire cheaper, less educated people to run it.
guappa 2y ago
virtualbox is buggy and it's not open source.
- mdaniel 2y ago
  The VirtualBox extension is not open source, but VirtualBox is GPLv3: https://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk/COPYING https://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk/COPYING I can't speak to your buggy claim since I don't know which feature you are complaining about, and if it's part of the extensions then the "many eyes, shallow bugs" does not apply
heraldgeezer 2y ago
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kube-system 2y ago
There are some open source options that come close to what vmware's offerings could do, but virtualbox for sure ain't that. It has an extremely limited feature set compared to other offerings in this space. For example, it is mainly intended to manage VMs on a single host. Most organizations looking at commercial offerings have multiple hosts (or racks, or even datacenters) they want to manage. Apples are much more similar to oranges than vmware is to virtualbox.
heraldgeezer 2y ago
For desktop virtualization, vmware workstation is the best. Full stop.
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by jijji 2y ago

bluGill 2y ago

Vmware is better by our performance tests. Still is better but not 10x the price better.

dessimus 2y ago

The ones staying with VMware, permanently or near term, are likely using products for which there are not good replacements. The open source alternatives can do what ESXi does sure, but its progressively more difficult to replicate VSAN (including stretched clusters) and NSX-T (with distributed firewalling) without bringing in multiple vendors that will all point at each other when there is a problem.

gosub100 2y ago

Because they dumb it down, you pay more for VMware but then you can hire cheaper, less educated people to run it.

guappa 2y ago

virtualbox is buggy and it's not open source.

mdaniel 2y ago
The VirtualBox extension is not open source, but VirtualBox is GPLv3: https://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk/COPYING https://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk/COPYING I can't speak to your buggy claim since I don't know which feature you are complaining about, and if it's part of the extensions then the "many eyes, shallow bugs" does not apply

heraldgeezer 2y ago

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kube-system 2y ago

There are some open source options that come close to what vmware's offerings could do, but virtualbox for sure ain't that. It has an extremely limited feature set compared to other offerings in this space. For example, it is mainly intended to manage VMs on a single host. Most organizations looking at commercial offerings have multiple hosts (or racks, or even datacenters) they want to manage. Apples are much more similar to oranges than vmware is to virtualbox.

heraldgeezer 2y ago

For desktop virtualization, vmware workstation is the best. Full stop.

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