by zamadatix on 1/18/24, 10:38 PM
@Dang the current title, and maybe article linked, is going to cause a titanic misunderstanding in what's happening.
The 1st party link has a much clearer title "VMware End of Availability of perpetual licensing and associated products" https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/96168?lang=en_US&ref=thestac...
E.g. it's not that NSX as a whole is discontinued it's that NSX perpetual licensing is discontinued and you must buy the NSX subscription licensing. Some of these other SKUs may not have an equivalent but for anything "big" like NSX or vSphere there will be.
by nunez on 1/19/24, 1:09 AM
Inaccurate. VMware is consolidating its ABSOLUTELY INSANE list of SKUs down to a handful. Yes, some products are getting put down (I.e. no longer maintained, with support ending way later), but not 56 of them, and definitely not NSX (makes HUGE money for VMware).
Source: I work at VMware in presales
by woopwoop24 on 1/18/24, 10:54 PM
i think i will still be in tech when the pendulum swings back to on-prem, when everybody notices how awfully expensive the cloud is, after the bigger players raise the prices at will, because they killed off the competition.
by digitalsushi on 1/18/24, 9:58 PM
I wonder how this will cut into the hobbiest/learn-at-home crowd with our half width, 1U free-tier-license ESXi servers we learn our skills for our day jobs on.
by post_break on 1/18/24, 9:49 PM
AWS and Azure rubbing their hands together. We use one of these products and unfortunately will have to abandon ship.
by candiddevmike on 1/18/24, 10:04 PM
I remember when Nicira/NSX and the concept of SDN was groundbreaking stuff. Hyperconverged had just become a thing, and VMware was the brightest star in the galaxy. Seeing it shuddered is pretty powerful.
by midasuni on 1/18/24, 9:42 PM
Looking forward to when aws does this. Lock in and tighten the screws.
by timekiller on 1/18/24, 10:33 PM
I’m at a loss with VMware. We’ve been full vdi since 2011 and can’t afford cloud solutions. Citrix is overkill. Love Nutanix, but can’t use AHV due to VMware horizon. We’ve had zero or thin clients for all workstations. It’s been so easy, until now.
by Banditoz on 1/18/24, 10:20 PM
VMware (now Broadcom?) owns the Spring/Spring Boot libraries, right? Anyone know if they're still planning on maintaining it?
by boarnoah on 1/18/24, 10:24 PM
Am I misunderstanding, there is a bunch of vSphere offerings on the list there, but surely they must still sell vSphere in some form to enterprises?
Isn't it still common to find as a significant part of most on-premise deployments?
by the_third_wave on 1/18/24, 11:41 PM
Proxmox [1] will see a boost in popularity, good. I'm using the free version in combination with the backup server on both small (several RasPi 4's spread over several countres running the 'PiMox' [2] port) as well as medium (DL380) sized systems and find it to be a stable as well as practical platform.
[1] https://proxmox.com/en/
[2] https://github.com/pimox/pimox7
by wmf on 1/18/24, 10:10 PM
Realistically these products aren't being killed; they'll still be available in subscription bundles just not as perpetual licenses.
by Invictus0 on 1/18/24, 10:25 PM
There should be a web quiz "VMWare Product Name" or "Scifi-book technology"
by boring-alterego on 1/19/24, 3:43 AM
Air gapped vsphere clusters likely moving to hyper-v as it's already covered under the company's enterprise agreement. And there are some simpleish tools to convert from one to the other without too many headaches.
by jcpham2 on 1/19/24, 1:48 AM
I see many vmdk images being converted to other image formats like qcow and raw - if the new hypervisor even requires it
by pjmlp on 1/19/24, 6:53 AM
I am quite curious if Spring will also be eventually affected.
by rkagerer on 1/18/24, 11:00 PM
Does it impact Workstation or ESXi (aka ESX)?