I may only use VMware workstation pro for desktop virtualization for lab use, and I do realize the ramifications for enterprise operations are exponentially greater. But even I am getting a worse service. I used to be able to google an issue, find a link to the VMware forum and just open that. Now *.vmware.com redirects to broadcom.com and searching for the post there seldom finds it again. Absolutely brilliant timing for google to kill cached pages.

The broadcom takeover has fucked us all.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

ROBO licenses are gone. We saw licensing costs for servers at those sites go up 5x.

We have a few years left on our main clusters licensing, but we are already investigating moving off vmware because we expect more of the same.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where are you jumping to? I hear people going Hyper-V and nutanix(?)

[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Local gov, we were directed to go to Hyper-V... We'll see how it goes

[–] kelargo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Consider Xen?