They don't understand why customers bought VMware in the first place.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
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Our VMware has become expensive enough that we're looking at Proxmox for enterprise workloads. We also run Azure local clusters but we can get much better hardware if the budget isn't drained by licensing. On Azure local the storage is expensive because you need 3x or more mirrors for all volumes and the deduplication doesn't make it that much better. We're thinking about a PowerStore with fibre channel for the block storage and then workloads on Proxmox clusters. One of the issues with Proxmox is their support for high network speeds like 100G is experimental.
We just went through being strong armed into a VMWare solution. Our choices were, be switched over to VMware for a lot more money or move all of our infrastructure to another colo in a pretty short amount of time. They try and pitch all these bundles that we had no interest in to bring our hosting costs down. it's a straight up shakedown.
What does your colo have to do with hypervisor choice?
Colo isn't the right word, it's more of a managed cloud situation.
That makes more sense.
and what we’re going to do with them
Doesn't sound "accidentally" threatening at all. "They all change their tune once they hear what we're going to do with them."
Do they really think anyone believes this? We know they sure don't. Broadcom's MO for ages now has been to buy successful companies and gut them for short term profit, then move on.
Who is served by the CTO making this statement? His own barely clinging on remaining shred of his malnourished and abandoned sense of concience?
Like, of course something is more worth the cost if you fully utilize all its features. But if the majority of your user base are complaining of the price and don't need or use the full feature set, it's not the customer's job to change their business use cases to fit your profit needs. It's your job to offer the product they actually need.
Lol, on the other hand why not.
Enshitification. 101.