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We moved to promox, and never looking back. Thanks Broadcom.

It's a multi stage transition, and we are nearing the end of phase 1, rebuild in AWS using equivalent EC2 instances. This is not cheap by any means, but it gets us out of VMware, and also gets us away from our abysmal capacity management problems. Being able to keep up with business growth on-demand is worth the extra cost over the medium term.

Phase 2 is rearchitecting and consolidating our major overlapping LOB applications into fewer, more cloud-native designs. This should reap cost savings eventually.

Come on proxmox! Open a us division already!

Definitely look into Nutanix AHV, but I’d definitely recommend 3 node over two node ROBO. Personally I like NX hardware but it’s all fine.

The only downside I’ve encountered is VM affinity lacks compared to VMware.

The is pretty much Broadcom's MO with purchases like this. Jack up prices to get rid of small customers, milk the huge customers for all they can, don't spend money on further development.

We saw the writing on the wall with the purchase, got the ball rolling and now are almost done expunging all VMware from our environment. Just in time it seems.