Vmware changing hands between corporate overlords like it’s hot potato.<p>VMware under EMC $625M acquisition lasted ‘04-‘15<p>Dell acquires EMC for $58B in ‘15 which includes previously acquired VMware.<p>Now Dell is trying to balance their books and sells entire stake of VMWare in ‘21.<p>Broadcom now picks up the pieces of VMware with acquisition completed this year (‘23).<p>I wonder which corporate overlord will take it over in the next 4-5 years.<p>Maybe Oracle or MS will be the next to bag hold.
We are already seeing the squeeze from this. We have recently been informed they are dropping their academic list pricing entirely, which will cause many institutions to pay double or even triple what they do now. As a result, several major universities (specifically the Big Ten but I'm sure many others are as well) are looking into alternatives to reduce license costs ahead of next year's contract negotiations.<p>Source: Someone higher up in my department.
What does this means for the development of the Spring Framework ecosystem (including Spring Boot et al).<p>VMware was a pretty good steward from my limited perspective. Does anyone have any experience with successful open source projects under Broadcom? They don't seem to have a good track record with driver support, at the least...
Everyone's VMWare licenses are gonna go up so much it'll be hilarious. I wonder if any large shops will jump ship to something else, but to what is the question.
What is the enterprise virtualization alternative?<p>Is everyone on Hyper V already? Does Citrix still exist?<p>Are SuSE or Red Hat offering an 'open source' alternative? Surely people aren't using Proxmox in production?
That's an interesting development. Since the ransomware outbreak earlier this year, there has been an increase in security concerns about VMware. I've heard more complaints about the lateness of security patches and the difficulties people have had installing them, etc. I'm curious if this has anything to do with that.
I guess the practical question for me is: in case Fusion goes abandonware, is there a viable desktop-focused hypervisor for the Mac other than Fusion or Parallels that runs Windows relatively well? I'm on Fusion, and I've always kind of viewed Parallels with suspicion. There's Vimy and LTM but as far as I can tell, they don't do Windows or GUI's all that well, since their focus seems to be linux and Mac OS X VMS, unless newer versions have improved...
This is very bad news for careers of so many ESXi SMEs at all major corporations. Several employers will put a hard stop on all private cloud (on-prem) investments and move everything to public cloud. We recently pulled the plug on another s/w acquired by Broadcom.
Ahh damn! Now carboblack has to be renamed again. One product of theirs has already been renamed 4 times at least lol. It's like a game of snake with these companies.<p>I wish an MBA can explain to me the value of rebranding and losing brand loyalty/familiarity.
As employee 10 (or 11, we were not great at counting), I hope folks still there get the fuck out, and go do something productive. Broadcom is a sad sad way for a company to die.
Since KVM already exists, who would renew their ESXi licenses?<p>Broadcom would surely rise license costs while at the same time disinvesting.<p>Also, what will happen with VMWare’s Kubernetes investments? I am guessing all of their open source work will cease to exist?
The only reason I'm sticking with VMware ESXi is because of Veeam, it's like the only solidly working piece of backup software for VMs. Otherwise I wouldn't doubt to go with Proxmox.
I guess this is really CA buying VMWare. This is a standard move by CA. Buy an entrenched software company that isn't growing but has a lot of customers and milk it.
It's a shame, VMware was always one of the best virtualization products. I worry the quality will fall off a cliff after all these corporate migrations.
I see people suggesting alternatives in the comments, I just wanted to give a small hands-on experience of running XCP-ng at work and Proxmox at home.<p>1. XCP-ng is a bit more polished and stable than Proxmox.
Both are supposedly level 1 hypervisors, but while XCP-ng separates the hypervisor from the rest of the OS, Proxmox bumps it all together. Meaning that if something goes wrong with other part of the base OS, it will affect Proxmox.<p>2. It's simpler to do hardware pass-through on Proxmox (there's a GUI for that), but XCP-ng is more stable. There were occasions in which I couldn't pass through a device on Proxmox, but it worked perfectly fine on XCP-ng.<p>3. Xen Orchestra is the new manager for XCP-ng, the old Windows utility (which was great and had more functionality) is now EOL. But the creators from Xen Orchestra are too focused on getting VMWare clusters to migrate to their product and fail to add much needed functionality.<p>4. XCP-ng doesn't allow you to start VMs at boot in a certain order.<p>5. XCP-ng doesn't auto-mount shares when they come online.<p>6. XCP-ng doesn't have vGPU functionality for Nvidia or for newer Intel GPUs.<p>7. XCP-ng makes it much easier to create clusters than Proxmox.<p>8. Proxmox has a big community behind, meaning you can do some nifty hacks like: install MacOS, install Synology NAS software, do vGPU unlock (don't confuse this with proper vGPU support).<p>Bottom line:
- I really want to like XCP-ng, but I'm migrating the work machines to Proxmox. Points 4, 5 and 6 are a big no-go, and it became a hassle to live with them. Unfortunately the developers, although polite, show no interest in improving those areas.
Does anyone knows good alternative with GPU passthrough for homelab? Hyper-V is not going to fly since it won't do passthrough on consumer windows. Also not proxmox.
Between Xen, KVM, BHyve, Hyper-V, the use cases for VMware vanished well over a decade ago. They'll bleed out their remaining customers until there is no one left.
This may sound harsh, but VMware needed to lose about half its staff. It’s a dumpster fire inside there.<p>Too bad Broadcom will also destroy the good parts.