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Broadcom loses another big VMware customer

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146 points belter | 1 comments | 03 Dec 24 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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czhu12 ◴[03 Dec 24 19:00 UTC] No.42309882[source]▶
Can someone explain what VMWare does so well that allows them to do this for someone totally uninformed? No where I've worked at has used VMWare, but everywhere I've worked used containers or VM's of some sort.

Even in the early 2015's kubernetes was mature enough to run production workloads. Any issues that did come up were with our own application code, never the orchestrator.

I never found myself thinking that it would be nice to have a close sourced expensive option to reach for.

What area does VMWare excel so much to justify this pricing power?

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1. duskwuff ◴[03 Dec 24 19:10 UTC] No.42309997[source]▶
Kubernetes demands a cloud-native approach - VMs are deployed from container images, nothing has persistent storage by default, network interfaces must be declared, etc. VMWare tolerates more conservative approaches like hoisting existing physical machines into VMs while leaving everything running on them unchanged. It's less sophisticated on a technical level, but it's also an easier "sell" for companies with an established technology stack that they may not want to change right away. It's also potentially a better fit for organizations which need to run Windows infrastructure (e.g. AD servers, mail servers, etc) which can't be hosted in k8s.