If your company is being acquired, you need to assume you, the employee, are disposable and not the reason for the acquisition.
Yup. Warm up that resume and work on an exit strategy.
Guess I’m moving to proxmox
Free ESXi will also be killed off I bet
I’ve been using PM for about a year now. It’s quite nice, although I’ll fully admit I’ve barely scratched the surface of what it can do. I’ve heard a lot of people transition to Prox and adapt fairly quickly.
It’s not… A walk in the park, and some stuff will have you manually editing files, as the UI might be missing those. But so far I’ve been a happy user for a bunch of years.
Yeah, not unlike the Linux experience; there will be times where you have to touch and/or nano configs. If you’re comfortable with such things, excellent. If not… you fidna get comfortable.
I can’t count the number of times I had to do that under ESXi, or do manual vSAN recoveries, so I found myself quite comfortable doing that in proxmox too (especially since proxmox is regular debian).
As someone who moved to Proxmox for my 3-node homelab, good luck.
I find the automation for deploying VMs to be woefully incapable compared to Terraform/PowerCLI on the VMware side. Not to mention things like load balancing/DRS are flat out missing.
I managed to get it stable enough for homelab-y things like *arr, plex, DNS, etc - but at this point I would quit rather than use it in a production environment. Or maybe I would just look at bare metal kubernetes instead.
What OS would you use for the bare metal install?
Probably Debian or Ubuntu LTS?
Your use case sounds like kubernetes would be a way better fit as dynamicly scaling and load balancing is kinda the whole point of kubernetes.
Proxmox clustering is essentially just for adding redundancy and nothing more.
IaaS or gtfo? I would love to see more development in this area, but I think you might be covering a bit too much ground with “in a production environment”. Tons of smaller (and not so small) companies are still running piles of bare metal chaos and could benefit greatly from even the simplest Proxmox setup.
Mergers always mean layoffs.
I still fail to see how this benefitted anyone at either Broadcom or vmware
It didn’t have to. It had to benefit shareholders and stock prices, that’s it.
That said, you can be damn sure it benefited the executive teams at both companies, very lucratively. Anyone below VP level can get bent, of course, as is tradition with M&A deals.
Wait how in the ever loving fuck is VMware worth $70B?
They run their servers on a $69.9B Yacht.
At this point, if you find out you’re getting or have gotten bought out, you should immediately just update your resume and start looking.
Although I agree, it is also nice to stick around and see what severance is offered as well. I’ve had friends who got paid out and were able to find a new job within a month of being let go and we’re able to pocket the extra money as a bonus. I get that it’s not always the case, and who knows if you will be so lucky to even find a job.
Damn vmware was miserable enough to work with already. Guess broadcom felt like pissing in the piss lake.
I’m already investigating alternatives for my company to move away from vmware for when it inevitably turns to shit. We have not forgotten the shit Broadcom pulled with Veritas and finally managed to move away from that fully last year. Azure Arc seems promising and I have heard that a lot of companies are already switching from an old colleague.
What do I use now? I’ve tried virtualbox and it didn’t work well for me. Do I use Proxmox?
Proxmox for the win. As a complete hobbyist it’s been amazingly easy to use with enough features to keep me learning.
Yeah, it’s solid. Also be sure to check out Proxmox Backup.
Check out Xen, XCP-ng (was Xenserver), and/or KVM.
Thankfully we have KVM still ticking along
I’m curious about how the rise of docker/kubernetes has affected these companies. I would have thought VMWare and Oracle would have been affected by the fall in the use of tools such as Vagrant for VMs.
Uhh what does this mean for workspace one?
They will be gutted of talent, like all other vmware products.
It will get more fragile, with less updates and features, and likely cost considerably more when your renewal is up.
Ugh. I guess time start thinking of either birfurcating mdm or finding a uem that doesn’t cost an absolute fuck ton
Theres always intune, but yeah.
My current company is a step ahead. The engineer running workspace one left and they didn’t backfill, so its going to shit all on its own. Beat Broadcom to the punch by almost a year.
We are truly innovators.
I tried to build an actual CPE team so we didn’t have to rely on sass shit but God the investment for in home code and shit is multimillion. So now we are stuck with these ducking companies
What does this mean for the spring framework? Doesn’t VMware maintain spring these days ? Or is it unrelated ?
Article has paywall, I couldn’t pass.
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