←back to thread

Broadcom loses another big VMware customer

(www.theregister.com)
146 points belter | 1 comments | 03 Dec 24 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.243s | source
Show context
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?

replies(5): >>42309993 #>>42309997 #>>42310050 #>>42310239 #>>42310619 #
1. KingMachiavelli ◴[03 Dec 24 19:14 UTC] No.42310050[source]▶
VMWare is far easier solution for normal enterprises than K8s. K8s more suited for having many small VMs that can be quickly deleted and recreated i.e modern microservice architecture. vSphere & friends is more targeted for running very large database, oriented application that need high uptime and are very long lived. VMWare can live migrate a running OS between physical hosts so that you can have continuous uptime. VMWare works with any OS so it's especially used by any Microsoft based orgs which the majority of hospitals, schools, government offices are.

If you are deploying enterprise apps from the 1990-2000s you use vSphere, if you are building your own SaaS product then you use K8s.