[HN Gopher] VMware Kills Off 56 Products
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       VMware Kills Off 56 Products
        
       Author : galenmarchetti
       Score  : 66 points
       Date   : 2024-01-18 21:37 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | midasuni wrote:
       | Looking forward to when aws does this. Lock in and tighten the
       | screws.
        
         | jacquesm wrote:
         | That just got a lot easier for them.
        
         | galenmarchetti wrote:
         | why? loving aws right now, which products do you think they
         | would keep vs kill
        
           | Unfrozen0688 wrote:
           | Because then people will move off it.
        
       | post_break wrote:
       | AWS and Azure rubbing their hands together. We use one of these
       | products and unfortunately will have to abandon ship.
        
         | jollyllama wrote:
         | I wonder who vSphere users can even go to
        
           | yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
           | Proxmox? (I appreciate that this is a significant change)
        
           | wmf wrote:
           | Nutanix
        
           | candiddevmike wrote:
           | They probably need a therapist at this point. They've been
           | through a lot over the years.
        
             | Unfrozen0688 wrote:
             | I'm sorry, what better interface is there for massive
             | amounts of VM management in a GUI?
        
               | candiddevmike wrote:
               | Backstage or ServiceNow in front of kubevirt
        
           | nwilkens wrote:
           | We're definitely seeing an uptick in interest for Triton
           | Datacenter[1] from vSphere users looking for alternatives.
           | 
           | Aside from Triton, there's a quite a bit of interest in
           | Proxmox and XCP-ng in the community.
           | 
           | While alternatives are gaining popularity, they certainly do
           | not have the same ecosystem that VMware users are accustomed
           | to. Organizations are going to have to pony up, or make
           | concessions.
           | 
           | [1]: https://www.tritondatacenter.com
        
           | manishsharan wrote:
           | Both AWS and Azure have migration agnets for vShere VMs
        
             | Unfrozen0688 wrote:
             | "Lift and Shift" cloud VMs is going to be MORE expensive
             | than on-prem.
             | 
             | Sure you CAN do it but not advisable.
        
           | lwkl wrote:
           | There is also Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager and Azure
           | Stack that might be an alternative for companies that ran
           | Windows on their vSphere environment. I've seen Windows shops
           | already switch to that because the licensing a lot cheaper.
           | 
           | There's also Nutanix, RedHat and other options that people
           | have mentioned here.
        
             | rodgerd wrote:
             | > RedHat
             | 
             | Unfortunately post-IBM aquisition, Red Hat's closest
             | equivalent (RHEV) was killed off. You've got OpenStack and
             | k8s VMs now, neither of which are really what people
             | running VMWare are looking for I suspect.
        
           | Unfrozen0688 wrote:
           | Xen Orchestra is another alternative.
           | 
           | But the issue with this and Proxmox is vsphere is not just
           | the web interface.
           | 
           | Usually a company has Veeam integration for backups, and
           | server creation/decom automations all built on the vmware
           | platforms...
        
       | digitalsushi wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | wpm wrote:
         | I'm already not going to renew my VMUG membership, and am
         | planning to switch my VSphere cluster over to Proxmox.
        
         | CommieBobDole wrote:
         | I don't think this is a concern of theirs - the new owners
         | don't appear to have any plans for it to be around long enough
         | to need another generation of people to run it.
         | 
         | It's likely that for whatever products remain after this purge,
         | there will be no more major releases, only security patches and
         | ever-more-expensive extended support contracts.
        
       | candiddevmike wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | zamadatix wrote:
         | It's not really shuttered it's just become subscription only.
        
       | wmf wrote:
       | Realistically these products aren't being killed; they'll still
       | be available in subscription bundles just not as perpetual
       | licenses.
        
         | CommieBobDole wrote:
         | I don't think that's correct - from the article:
         | 
         | "All licensing options including Perpetual, Support &
         | Subscription (SnS), SaaS/hosted and subscription, as well as
         | all editions, suites and pricing metrics of each product,
         | unless otherwise noted, are included in this announcement.
         | These products are no longer available for purchase."
         | 
         | Honestly, looking at the list, I'm not sure what they actually
         | still sell.
        
           | wmf wrote:
           | I guarantee vSAN and NSX are not canceled; they're critical
           | components of the VMware stack.
        
             | CommieBobDole wrote:
             | Here's the actual article from VMWare:
             | 
             | https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/96168?lang=en_US
             | 
             | It sounds pretty unambiguous; they go out of their way to
             | note that these products are no longer available by any
             | means and are discontinued, and they list both vSAN and
             | NSX.
             | 
             | But, yeah, just because a company says something doesn't
             | mean it's true, I guess - wouldn't put it past them to say
             | "oh, all these products have been replaced by the new
             | VMWare vCloud Platinum MAX offering" which is just the same
             | products in a bundle that costs ten times as much.
        
             | sitkack wrote:
             | LoL, I just looked at the vSAN cancellation.
             | 
             | People are snapshoting the hell out of those pages on the
             | wayback machine! The world is going insane right now.
             | 
             | Broadcom is burning more actual value than Elon Musk.
        
         | tivert wrote:
         | > Realistically these products aren't being killed; they'll
         | still be available in subscription bundles just not as
         | perpetual licenses.
         | 
         | But the OP says:
         | 
         | > Listing the 56 VMware products and platforms being killed
         | off, VMware said: "All licensing options including Perpetual,
         | Support & Subscription (SnS), SaaS/hosted and subscription, as
         | well as all editions, suites and pricing metrics of each
         | product, unless otherwise noted, are included in this
         | announcement. These products are no longer available for
         | purchase."
         | 
         | I've heard Broadcom is also (dishonestly) pushing a sudden and
         | harsh RTO plan that will probably lead to a huge amount of
         | staff turnover.
        
           | sitkack wrote:
           | Broadcom will not be able to extract their acquisition cost
           | out of future customer due to their rate of cuts.
           | 
           | Broadcom watched Arm sue Qualcomm, and was like, hold my
           | beer. Revenue for VMware was 13.6B last year. They would have
           | to maintain that for 4 more years just to break even _on
           | revenue_. There is zero chance they will make a profit on
           | this acquisition.
        
         | kdtsh wrote:
         | According to VMware/Broadcom in the article: "All licensing
         | options including Perpetual, Support & Subscription (SnS),
         | SaaS/hosted and subscription, as well as all editions, suites
         | and pricing metrics of each product, unless otherwise noted,
         | are included in this announcement. These products are no longer
         | available for purchase."
         | 
         | It reads like these products and any way to purchase them have
         | been axed. What am I missing? - if the expectation is that
         | these products will be bundled into future product offerings,
         | that's a big if and if I'm not mistaken I don't think we have
         | any concrete information about that yet.
        
           | kube-system wrote:
           | I think the original blog post from VMWare pretty much says
           | what the above person was claiming, if I'm reading it right:
           | 
           | https://news.vmware.com/company/vmware-by-broadcom-
           | business-...
        
         | roody15 wrote:
         | Yuck. The subscription everything model of everything just
         | feels dystopian and a step backwards. It's everywhere .. even
         | silly simplistic applications and add on's all subscription.
        
       | Banditoz wrote:
       | VMware (now Broadcom?) owns the Spring/Spring Boot libraries,
       | right? Anyone know if they're still planning on maintaining it?
        
         | jryan49 wrote:
         | Here is a twitter comment from Nov...
         | https://nitter.net/odrotbohm/status/1730356168755703945?t=xG...
         | 
         | Make of it what you will...
        
       | boarnoah wrote:
       | 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?
        
         | zamadatix wrote:
         | This is the discontinuation of all non-subscription licenses.
         | I.e. vSphere (the software) isn't discontinued rather vSphere
         | (the perpetually licensed product) is continued. You must
         | purchase vSphere (the subscription licensed product) if you
         | want to renew support. For more minor products there may not be
         | a subscription SKU but for anything in common use there should
         | be.
        
       | Invictus0 wrote:
       | There should be a web quiz "VMWare Product Name" or "Scifi-book
       | technology"
        
       | timekiller wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | timekiller wrote:
         | The company we purchased from is pretty sure VMware is cutting
         | them off. We used to deal with CDW, but cdw's service went to
         | crap
        
       | zamadatix wrote:
       | @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.
        
         | kube-system wrote:
         | And the linked blog post:
         | https://news.vmware.com/company/vmware-by-broadcom-business-...
        
       | woopwoop24 wrote:
       | 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.
        
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