Makes sense… Broadcom really are speedrunning the destruction of the VMware brand, and Proxmox VE and xcp-ng are reaping the benefits.
Some major changes Broadcom has made to VMware licensing are that they’ve killed off perpetual licenses, and subscriptions are now billed per CPU core rather than per socket. They enforce a 16-core minimum, and were trying to increase that to a 72-core minimum (but rolled that back). Competitors with enterprise support plans, like Proxmox VE, still bill per socket.
That and all the features in Proxmox VE are free (both in cost and in free software). A company has to pay a license for all their VMware servers, whereas with Proxmox they can decide to only pay for enterprise support for production servers, while using the free version for dev/test/staging environments that don’t need stability or SLAs.
It makes sense from a business perspective… Earning the same amount of revenue from a smaller number of clients reduces their overheads like support costs, marketing costs, etc. and thus increases their profit margin.
It just sucks for companies that have to spend a lot of time and effort migrating away.
Makes sense… Broadcom really are speedrunning the destruction of the VMware brand, and Proxmox VE and xcp-ng are reaping the benefits.
Some major changes Broadcom has made to VMware licensing are that they’ve killed off perpetual licenses, and subscriptions are now billed per CPU core rather than per socket. They enforce a 16-core minimum, and were trying to increase that to a 72-core minimum (but rolled that back). Competitors with enterprise support plans, like Proxmox VE, still bill per socket.
That and all the features in Proxmox VE are free (both in cost and in free software). A company has to pay a license for all their VMware servers, whereas with Proxmox they can decide to only pay for enterprise support for production servers, while using the free version for dev/test/staging environments that don’t need stability or SLAs.
But they can’t really use the dev/test environment for validation because the repositories are different.
For VMs? Probably doesnt matter.
Besides that: PVE rocks!
They don’t want small (read: less than half a DC worth of hypervisors) customers anymore. This is intentional.
It makes sense from a business perspective… Earning the same amount of revenue from a smaller number of clients reduces their overheads like support costs, marketing costs, etc. and thus increases their profit margin.
It just sucks for companies that have to spend a lot of time and effort migrating away.
It’s also risky because with fewer clients, each lost client is a bigger hit to the bottom line.