Re: VMWARE/ESXi Linux

On 12/2/2024 4:42 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Interesting report
<https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/company-claims-1000-percent-price-hike-drove-it-from-vmware-to-open-source-rival/>
on a company which switched from VMware to an open-source alternative
as a result of Broadcom’s massive price hikes, and encountered an
unexpected benefit: the resources consumed by system management
overhead on the new product were so much less, they could run more VMs
on the same hardware.

There is no doubt that customers are leaving VMWare.
The price hikes are so huge that they cannot be ignored.
Some stay, some migrate, but almost everyone will do the
analysis.
Regarding the specific story, then two things worth noting
after reading:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNebula
A migration from ESXi to OpenNebula is not a migration from
one brand of VM to another brand of VM. OpenNebula is KVM for VM +
containers + FaaS/serverless. So it seems like the company
did an architectural modernization not just a VM vendor change.
While OpenNebula CE is open source then:
<quote>
OpenNebula CE is free and open-source software, released under the
Apache License version 2. OpenNebula CE comes with free access to patch
releases containing critical bug fixes but with no access to the regular
EE maintenance releases. Upgrades to the latest minor/major version is
only available for CE users with non-commercial deployments or with
significant open source contributions to the OpenNebula
Community. OpenNebula EE is distributed under a closed-source license
and requires a commercial Subscription.
</quote>
Arne