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Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO (www.theregister.com)

submitted 8 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] RalphFurley@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I've spent the last 15 years working with VMware exclusively. A little nervous about all of this

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You are in trouble my friend.

[–] RalphFurley@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've done this for so long I might just be like that old Cobol programmer in need during Y2K at some point.

[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

More like the veteran nuclear plant engineer who is called out of retirement to mitigate the effects of a core meltdown.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When Broadcom announced the purchase a year or so ago, I abandoned all further VMWare certs, and put the time into getting my head around the alternatives.
I still have to use VMWare for 90% of my job, but I'm absolutely treating it like a locked-in platform, and assuming that anything I learn to do in VMWare, I need to understand the underlying concepts, not just their interpretation, and how I can do similar things on other platforms.

[–] RalphFurley@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I took a good look at Apache CloudStack. I of course have been migrating stuff to k8s and working with cloud native stuff that can be hypervisor independent or bare metal even.

I'm this close to an NSX-T cert and that will be the last one. That will be in high demand for quite some time I'd expect.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is there not an alternative to what you use?

[–] nexusband@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's not the issue in IT anymore. There are loads of alternatives, but rebuilding existing infrastructure on these kind of scales is nearly impossible without causing some serious downtime, loss of money or maybe even loss of life in case of some medical facilities.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

That's vendor locking for ya...

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago

Same. Since the aquisition, I've moved all my home infrastructure off vmware to debian/docker and currently trying to get in front of our next renewal at work. I've been ready to pivot if necessary but no one seems to believe me that we need to be ready for our pending licensing converation..

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I was too, but as soon as I heard about the acquisition I started diversifying my non production kit for testing. I've now got Proxmox installed on an HPE DL380G10 with GPU pass thru, same on an HP Z440, and XenServer 8 installed on a pair of DL380G9 with MSA2040 backing storage.

At home I've got both truenas scale and truenas core set up each on a z230.

No matter what happens with the IT department at my office, I'm ready to either meet the new standards here, or go find work elsewhere.