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Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/32641679

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

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I wasn't involved in the tender, so I don't know who initially applied and what were the specifics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Isn't nutanix licensed the same way more or less?