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Good. VMware has been adding so much useless stuff it’s astonishing. Anyone thinking about migrating - check OSS things out. Might not be as advanced, but do you really need all of that crap?

  • @sturlabragason
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    38 months ago

    Drop the VMs and modernize. Containers, Kubernetes or if you really need VMs then get some cloud stuff, IaC. It’s a brave new world.

    Oh yeah and I never liked VMware, they are the Oracle of VMs.

    • DarkenLM
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      68 months ago

      Ironic, since their direct competitor is Oracle VirtualBox lol

          • @[email protected]
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            18 months ago

            If you have a spare machine (or 2 if you want to test migration features) chuck it on and play around, it’s awesome.

      • circuscritic
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        8 months ago

        VirtualBox is not an enterprise solution. These customers would be switching to hypervisor solutions like Citrix, Nutanix, etc.

        Or containerizing with something like Kubernates.

        Or moving to a cloud native solution.

        Any number of things, just not moving their enterprise workloads to VirtualBox.

    • @ledtasso
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      28 months ago

      Is there an alternative to windows VMs?

    • IllecorsOPM
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      28 months ago

      It’s a bloated new world. The closer you can stick to the metal - the better your product will be.

  • @[email protected]
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    28 months ago

    My company is planning exactly this. VMware kinda sucks right now and keeps getting insanely expensive for no reason.