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https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/2025/08/31/broadcom-plays-defense-at-vmware-explore-2025/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/2025/08/31/broad

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/2025/08/31/broadcom-plays-defense-at-vmware-explore-2025/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/2025/08/31/broadc... > Many mid-market and regional operators view the new [subscription] structure as untenable and are actively exploring alternatives.. Nutanix emerged early as the leading competitive alternative to VMware.. over 2,700 new customers.. driven by organizations fleeing VMware's new pricing model.. [including] more than 50 Global 2000 companies, representing major enterprises willing to undertake complex, multi-year infrastructure overhauls.. With VMware serving approximately 200,000 customers globally, Nutanix sees most of the migration opportunity still ahead.

alephnerd 1y ago
> Many mid-market and regional operators These aren't Broadcom's ICPs. > Nutanix Good for Nutanix. Market segmentation exists for a reason. The article is also written by Steve McDowell, who's analyst firm (NAND Research) is sponsored by Nutanix [0][1] Welcome to Enterprise Sales. [0] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=93FbVZGDXoY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=93FbVZGDXoY [1] - https://www.nutanix.com/theforecastbynutanix/technology/hyperconverged-infrastructure-for-managing-ai-at-the-edge https://www.nutanix.com/theforecastbynutanix/technology/hype...
- walterbell 1y ago
  The article mentions several VMware alternatives: - RedHat OpenShift (k8s) - Scale Computing HC3 - Wind River Cloud - public cloud providers Any other alternatives?
  - riddley 1y ago
    Proxmox leaps to mind. HyperV, XCP-ng, raw KVM..
  - sherr 1y ago
    Xen is still around, including an open-source version. It's not as visible as it used to be but works e.g. XenServer (https://www.xenserver.com/editions https://www.xenserver.com/editions). I'd look at this over VMWare anyday.
    - stephen_g 1y ago
      When I was looking at solutions, most of what I found seemed to indicate Xen is waning in popularity. I considered XCP-ng but since KVM seems to be more preferred now, I ended up going with Proxmox for a few small work (3-5 hosts) and home (1 and 3 host) systems. It’s actually been rock-solid, basically had zero problems with it.
      - walterbell 1y ago
        > rock-solid Perl FTW, https://github.com/proxmox/pve-common https://github.com/proxmox/pve-common
  - cl0ckt0wer 1y ago
    If you're looking at small self hosting then Proxmox.
    - travisgriggs 1y ago
      That’s where my IT department said they’re headed the other day.
  - nick__m 1y ago
    in no particular order: - HPE morpheus VM Essential - Apache Cloudstack - Platform9 ...
    - jhickok 1y ago
      Really feels like Openstack could use a fresh coat of paint and someone to create a nice opinionated distribution of it and challenge some of these f500 customer vmware accounts. It's very powerful, but is as user-hostile as I have personally experienced. Maybe this already exists though with Cloudstack?
  - noselasd 1y ago
    Proxmox is an amazing alternative

alephnerd 1y ago

> Many mid-market and regional operators These aren't Broadcom's ICPs. > Nutanix Good for Nutanix. Market segmentation exists for a reason. The article is also written by Steve McDowell, who's analyst firm (NAND Research) is sponsored by Nutanix [0][1] Welcome to Enterprise Sales. [0] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=93FbVZGDXoY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=93FbVZGDXoY [1] - https://www.nutanix.com/theforecastbynutanix/technology/hyperconverged-infrastructure-for-managing-ai-at-the-edge https://www.nutanix.com/theforecastbynutanix/technology/hype...

walterbell 1y ago
The article mentions several VMware alternatives: - RedHat OpenShift (k8s) - Scale Computing HC3 - Wind River Cloud - public cloud providers Any other alternatives?
- riddley 1y ago
  Proxmox leaps to mind. HyperV, XCP-ng, raw KVM..
- sherr 1y ago
  Xen is still around, including an open-source version. It's not as visible as it used to be but works e.g. XenServer (https://www.xenserver.com/editions https://www.xenserver.com/editions). I'd look at this over VMWare anyday.
  - stephen_g 1y ago
    When I was looking at solutions, most of what I found seemed to indicate Xen is waning in popularity. I considered XCP-ng but since KVM seems to be more preferred now, I ended up going with Proxmox for a few small work (3-5 hosts) and home (1 and 3 host) systems. It’s actually been rock-solid, basically had zero problems with it.
    - walterbell 1y ago
      > rock-solid Perl FTW, https://github.com/proxmox/pve-common https://github.com/proxmox/pve-common
- cl0ckt0wer 1y ago
  If you're looking at small self hosting then Proxmox.
  - travisgriggs 1y ago
    That’s where my IT department said they’re headed the other day.
- nick__m 1y ago
  in no particular order: - HPE morpheus VM Essential - Apache Cloudstack - Platform9 ...
  - jhickok 1y ago
    Really feels like Openstack could use a fresh coat of paint and someone to create a nice opinionated distribution of it and challenge some of these f500 customer vmware accounts. It's very powerful, but is as user-hostile as I have personally experienced. Maybe this already exists though with Cloudstack?
- noselasd 1y ago
  Proxmox is an amazing alternative