Price hikes of over 2x widely expected under Broadcom’s VMware, survey finds

300 director-level IT workers making VMware decisions were questioned.

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    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.

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

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          Hyper-V is decent. It’s VMM that is atrocious. Hopefully you don’t have Citrix with MCS catalogs.

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            Hyperv has shit automation support and doesn’t provide native apis to work with. You need vmm or some third layer to talk to. That’s where the shit starts

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              I’m a net admin so I don’t deal much on hypervisors but I’m a bit surprised.

              Does it actually have shit automation support, or do you just not like the APIs?

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            The problem is what happens if they pull a VMware. They could just bump up licensing costs so that you end up spending the same as you would to be in the cloud

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              MS is currently going through some legal battles in the EU about unfair pricing so it will be interesting how that turns out.