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

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    … was a VMware bill for “10 times the sum it previously paid for software licenses,” per The Register.

    … OpenNebula has enabled the company to dedicate more of its 3,000 bare metal server fleet to client loads instead of to VM management, as it had to with VMware. With OpenNebula purportedly requiring less management overhead, Beeks is reporting a 200 percent increase in VM efficiency since it now has more VMs on each server.

    Damn. Pay less and gain significant efficiency increases.