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Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales, testing customers and partners (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I think a lot of enterprises are going to look at RHEV and Proxmox now. Broadcom will squeeze so little out of VMware thinking they can convert per seat licenses, it's baffling to me why they decided to do this. Do all these companies want to spend $2 to make $1 all the sudden?

Watch: in a year they'll offload it to private equity.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think a lot of enterprises are going to look at RHEV

I don't think so, because:

Development of RHV has ceased and as of August 2020 the product is now only receiving maintenance updates, with extended life phase updates provided until 2026.[8] The successor to RHV is Red Hat's OpenShift container platform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Virtualization

Proxmox

I'm no expert btw, but from what I understand (from speaking with others and researching for my own homelab setup) is that LXD/Incus is now the preferred solution over Proxmox. LXD is faster, the CLI is very good, it has a huge library of ready to run Linux distro images which is convenient, and it runs on top of your favorite distro, which makes it easy to install/setup, more flexible, and more compatible (Proxmox runs an old and custom kernel, which may not be fully compatible with new hardware).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Watch: in a year they’ll offload it to private equity.

and that's the kiss of death for any company