For people, businesses looking for an alternative there is XCPng + Xen Orchestra, by Vates, a French company selling support for their otherwise FOSS stack if I understand correctly. They’ve truly built something very well designed with an explicit migration path from vmware.
I’m not affiliated but I did explore it for my homelab. At the time they didn’t yet have a stable ZFS support, which they do now, so I went a different route but it’s really matured and they are good stewards of FOSS with monthly streams to discuss their changes and with a blog about their objectives.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjvBiVTxBt-madrH2Kt7iA
https://vates.tech/blog/migrating-from-vmware-or-hyper-v-to-vates-vms/
when Broadcom took over VMware in November 2023, it would not honor the deal and instead tried to get Tesco to pay “excessive and inflated prices for virtualization software for which Tesco has already paid”
If you use proprietary software you don’t own it. no matter how much you legally licensed it. So this is what you always risk.
But fuck Broadcom for being worse than average bordering on illegal.Agreed. Fuck Broadcom.
But I sure hope the “unnamed” virtualization software that they’re migrating to is FOSS, otherwise they’re going to inevitably run into this problem again.
And will they donate back even one percent of the fees they would have paid so the open source software can be maintained. Naaaaaah!
Exactly.
Broadcom’s tactic here is to dump the little fish, keep the whales. Then rake in that revenue for very little effort in support and development until budget proposals showing better alternatives are written, enterprise capital expenditure cycles around to the next refresh, and the whales finally go elsewhere.
Broadcom told ATT to pay up or fuck off. I’m seriously surprised. Broadcom has done more for all other virtualization platforms than anyone else in history.
Proxmox usage alone exploded nearly overnight. Nutanix has been printing money.
