VMware Kills Off 56 Products
Goodbye vSphere Hypervisor. Goodbye Aria Operations. Goodbye NCX. Goodbye HCX. Goodbye more acronyms than we know what to do with; though Broadcom does.
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
What the flying fuck?
Indeed. This is what happens when Broadcom shows up.
The good ol' hack & slash, 80's style
Holy shit.
We've invested heavily in vSAN over the past few years, and use or are looking at a few of those tools. I guess 'were looking at' is a better term now.
You had a good run, VMware, but apparently it's fucking over now.
As soon as the purchase was made public the fortune 50 company I work for ran as fast as possible to VARs looking for alternatives. It will take us 5 years to migrate off, but I've never seen such a universal desire to jump to another product inside a company this large. Broadcom is universally known to do nothing but milk and kill what they aquire.
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/96168
These products are not being scrapped, they're ending perpetual licensing. Broadcom wants all customers under a subscription model to milk the most money out of them.
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