7mo ago

Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival

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Cloud provider moved most of its 20,000 VMs off VMware.

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Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival

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7mo ago

Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival

arstechnica.com /information-technology/2024/12/company-claims-1000-percent-price-hike-drove-it-from-vmware-to-open-source-rival/

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Open Nebula is apparently their new platform of choice,
Never heard of it.
- https://opennebula.io/
  Their website speaks corporatese. Not immediately clear what their business model is.
  
  One of my biggest pet peeves with corporate websites. It's like they're afraid that clearly stating what they do will prevent them from growing and doing other things as well. So instead they refuse to say anything coherent.
- 37% JavaScript
I can't tell if this is a paid-for article by OpenNebula or what. It reads that way.
it feels like monopolies have become so common and widespread that companies are starting to forget that sometimes you can lose customers after raising prices.
- Broadcom doesn't care. They exploit the lag time for very large companies to switch. In that time, they can set prices as high as they want, because the company won't go without licenses or support.
  
  Yes, short term they will probably make a lot of money despite losing market share. But long term, it is one proprietary dependency that will be forever gone, unless open sourced.
- What do they care? They can lose 1000 customers with this change before it affects them, and if they lose 1999 customers then they're still ahead.
We were a medium-sized VMware client, roughly 4000 VMs. We're almost done migrating to Nutanix.
Sadly not open source, but less money towards Broadcom is a good thing overall.
- Thanks for sharing your experience. Was XCP-ng considered as a migration target? Would you have some feedback to share on what made it unsuitable for you? Thank you!
  They have a special migration tool from VMWare: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/installation/migrate-to-xcp-ng/#-from-vmware
  
  I can almost assure you, it was not considered.
  Nutanix is a mature platform, but more importantly, they're a mature vendor, which means support contracts with SLAs.
  
  I wasn't involved in the tender, so I don't know who initially applied and what were the specifics.
- Isn't nutanix licensed the same way more or less?
I’m glad VMWare overplayed their hand and lost.
- Depends on what your metrics are. If they are for longevity and long-term business health, sure.
  But I don't think that's how they're measuring success. They are maximizing shareholder value in the short term, and any medium to long-term problems will be concerns for another set of C-Suite vultures as the current ones will have already moved on, or retired with their golden parachutes.
According to Beeks, OpenNebula has enabled the company to dedicate more of its 3,000 bare metal server fleet to client loads instead of to VM management, as it had to with VMware. With OpenNebula purportedly requiring less management overhead, Beeks is reporting a 200 percent increase in VM efficiency since it now has more VMs on each server.
Salt in the wound for VMware.
Sadly most clients we've had just move to hyperv since theyre already running a bunch of windows servers.
Fuck nebula. They just know how to corpo speak to execs who dont know what's good for their infrastructure.
I had to go to YouTube to see an example of their interface and it looks terrible. A bunch of whitespace and animations. I can't imagine their CLI will be any better.

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