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unpopular opinion but there are so many mature well established open source alternatives to vmware in 2025 that not only outperform it but are easier to set up.
by nimbius 2y ago
unpopular opinion but there are so many mature well established open source alternatives to vmware in 2025 that not only outperform it but are easier to set up.
even the humble cockpit project supports vms using libvirtd and kvm, and provides a workable interface for virtualization that supports migration and snapshots. do give it a try.
Broadcom has been so abrasively hostile to the idea of the vmware business it acquired that its intentional rejection of profitable markets should be enough to start purging members of the board of directors.
- meltyness 2y agoThis looks pretty anemic compared to what I've seen from XCP-ng or proxmox: https://cockpit-project.org/guide/195/feature-virtualmachines.html https://cockpit-project.org/guide/195/feature-virtualmachine... Thanks for the tip, though.
- nunez 2y agoIf you don't mind the terminal. vAdmins are historically very click-ops. Not a slight against them; VMware grew up in a time when this was en vogue. Also, VMware has made their API very opaque and difficult to use aside from happy path scenarios. (Check out govc to see what I mean. It's great until you start hitting edge cases that are easy in the UI but very hard or darn near impossible with the SDK, like creating a distributed vSwitch and adding VMs to different port groups). vSphere is very, very nice. Super mature interface, and that's before you pair it with vSAN and NSX. AFAIK no-one's caught up
- indigodaddy 2y ago100% agree there is really nothing like VMware. Incredibly robust. Just works. It’s a juggernaut.