Price hikes of over 2x widely expected under Broadcom’s VMware, survey finds

300 director-level IT workers making VMware decisions were questioned.

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    ROBO licenses are gone. We saw licensing costs for servers at those sites go up 5x.

    We have a few years left on our main clusters licensing, but we are already investigating moving off vmware because we expect more of the same.

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    6 months ago

    I may only use VMware workstation pro for desktop virtualization for lab use, and I do realize the ramifications for enterprise operations are exponentially greater. But even I am getting a worse service. I used to be able to google an issue, find a link to the VMware forum and just open that. Now *.vmware.com redirects to broadcom.com and searching for the post there seldom finds it again. Absolutely brilliant timing for google to kill cached pages.

    The broadcom takeover has fucked us all.

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    European retailer here with >3000 stores in EU.

    We recently decided to move away from VMware after the Broadcom “takeover”. We have three scenarios to cover; datacenter setup, satellite offices (stand alone hosts) & hosting partners.

    For stand alone it was an easy choice; proxmox. For datacenter; hyper-v. Hosting providers; VMware (their choice).

    At the moment we are pushing our hosting providers for exit plans from VMware.

    As a company we have taken the decision to not support Broadcom pricing structure if we can avoid it.

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      Lmao don’t go hyper v. Use Nutanix or something

      Saying this as someone who is currently trying to get rid of hyperv internally

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      Large companies telling broadcom to go suck a lemon, is definitely what can make a difference for the rest of us in the future… Definitely maybe, possibly make potential a difference.