On November 5th, 2024, Broadcom announced that #VMUG Advantage would be forever changed. Starting November 30th …
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Stupid move by Broadcom. My small clients are reluctantly working towards other virtualization platforms and are not happy about it. vSphere Enterprise Plus is a tough act to follow. My larger clients will indeed look for other solutions as the costly subscription renewals come in. Not having free or at least cheap personal use licenses to learn with, qualified employee candidates for vSphere jobs will be scarce. Exam dumps will get a certification without experience. A double whammy for the VMware customer base.
I was there in Barcelona and talked with a lot of VMware staff, as a former employee I can tell you the spirit isn't great. I really wanted my homelab to be on VMware but since I also run some "production" VMs for my home I didn't want to rely on VMUG licenses to keep it running. Seems going for Proxmox was the right decision. In my professional life I'm still working with VMware but we have plenty of customers asking for alternatives.
Thanks for the video! Planning to migrate over to XCP-NG which seems to be closer to what vCenter offers IMHO (an extra appliance to install which I really don't mind). Built-in backups seem great with support with Veeam coming up (not a fan).
More reason to drop Broadcom.
it's like they are the best advertisement for using Proxmox.
Nutanix FTW!!
What's that ? People have licenses for personal use ?
I though everyone used the VMware workstation cracked.
Broadcom wants vmware to die. They are already a horrible company why not screw up something that was good.
We cancelled VMWare renewal after they doubled the cost. VMWare is not long for this world.
My I.T. department has been thrilled with their switch to Hyper-V in 2019
Proxmox has licences…. free.
Broadcom will probably buy out Proxmox next.
Itโs a short term gut and extort profit. Broadcom does not care about anything long term.
prediction: this is gonna be your least controversial video ever, lol. what a massive waste on the part of Broadcom; just tossing an entire community of engineers and users out in the trash.
I didn't renew my VMUG Advantage subscription when Broadcom started to publish their new licesing model…
At some point, I was right… but that is not what bothers me so much.
With the new annoucement of bringing back Enterprise+ % Standard licensing, my company will probably never have the balls to move away from VMware!
And the virtualization specialist, that means I'll seat between 2 chairs, unless I'm willing to pay to get a refreshed exam, which wasn't necessary because I could train & train again AT HOME!
All my thoughts to VMUG employees
VMware, if you read this, THIS S*CKS A LOT!!! ๐
(and if you piss people, don't be surprised if a lot of us will move away, this is just a matter of time)
PS: Before this video/announcement I was considering to get VMUG again…
we have gone openstack
Working in Datacenter Business my whole Life and had a bad feeling when Dell bought EMC and VMware as part of it. This was the Start of the Ending. Broadcom now is destroying the whole success History of VMware. This is really sad and unreasonable at the same Time.
Goo video. I seriously didn't know people/business still used VMWare!!! WoW
Everyone I know — which is edge case business — moved away from VMWare around ~2020. Its crazy to me that VMWare is still being used. I know many of them moved to hyper-V. But vmware — that ship was sinking long ago.
I installed kubernetes straight on the hardware. Running vcluster (loft) inside it, no more vm's. There is no need anymore.
I think this might be the future, no Windows AD anymore as well! Just authentik,, and linux based software everywhere.
Why do you keep making marketing stuff "for" Broadcom? I mean it is clear to everybody that Broadcom doesn't want you or your potential business. Just stop making any mentions about VMware in videos! ๐
I heard they wanted only the 600 most profitable customers. They destroyed the customer pipeline and companies don't last forever, just look at the SP500, so that number can only shrink. One guy guestimated about 6 months ago, that about 18 months for some equivalent products to compete.
Glad I switched to XCP-NG
Really don't understand why they buy companies to ruin them, or how they are able to buy them considering their obvious management failures.
We dumped VMWare for Hyper-V 5 Years ago and saved big on licensing, we have now moved to ProxMox over the Summer and saved another chunk of change and so far, ProxMox has been rock solid.
jump cuts and background music are retarded
My organization is getting their renewal quote this week for vcenter. I think my boss may not like it. I already have a proxmox instance set up on a few of my blades, we'll see how everything goes but hoping to migrate before the end of the year. ๐ค
I'm deeply worried that Broadcom will start to weaponize VMware's patent portfolio to attack other parts of the virtualization market, or literally anything that starts with the letter V.
Geeeed: The road most traveled.
I really hope Proxmox never sells to any company, especially Broadcom. If you guys are using Proxmox in your homelab or production environments, please purchase a subscription plan, even the lowest one even if you donโt need it. We donโt need any more vulture corporations buying up all the good software.
Great video. I just logged into vmug and downloaded everything i could. My home lab will move to Proxmox. Work is moving to Nutanix.
It's sad to see greed destroy greatness.
And this is why I canceled my sub to VMUG Advantage soon as the Broadcom news hit. Could see this coming from miles away.
Those morons are killing a whole galaxy and several businesses for no reason but trying to extract as much money they can from companies which technically cannot leave them easily.
We are starting to work on XCP-NG
VMWare is dead. Fuck broadcom.
On November 5th, 2024 in Barcelona at VMware Explore, Broadcom announced a new program that gives Advantage members an exclusive path to VCF and VVS personal use licenses.
This program will evolve the path to EVALExperience within VMUG Advantage.
So… What do you have to do to migrate to Proxmox, if you have a dozen of VM s running on VMware/ESXI?
I was about to commit to their certs and have joined VMUG and was willing to pay $200 a year to experiment with their products but now this doesnโt make sense.
Whole point for VMUG was for learning. If you need VCP for get VMUG acces what's even the point it all of this if you ca't have platform for learning to even get that VCP
Bye bye Broadcom
The greedy kill the company ๐ข
Maybe they just want to push Professional Services, so need to take out the competition i.e the customer's IT department.
Proxmox !! Bye Bye Vmware !
… I have no idea what VMUG is.
So all of the โIโm switching to Linuxโ people complaining about recent Microsoft Windows changes are going to switch to Microsoft Windows, specifically Hyper-V, because of recent Broadcom VMware changes. </irony>
Sucks honestly even though I moved my lab to proxmox also almost a year ago.. the conversations have been starting to shift at my job even as we continue to shrink our infrastructure footprint weโll always have a need to virtualize. What dark days lie ahead for VMware..
Again a VMware video ๐
Already ported all to proxmox…