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VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong

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245 points rntn | 2 comments | 08 Sep 25 12:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.435s | source
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walterbell ◴[08 Sep 25 13:09 UTC] No.45167801[source]▶
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/2025/08/31/broadc...

> Many mid-market and regional operators view the new [subscription] structure as untenable and are actively exploring alternatives.. Nutanix emerged early as the leading competitive alternative to VMware.. over 2,700 new customers.. driven by organizations fleeing VMware's new pricing model.. [including] more than 50 Global 2000 companies, representing major enterprises willing to undertake complex, multi-year infrastructure overhauls.. With VMware serving approximately 200,000 customers globally, Nutanix sees most of the migration opportunity still ahead.

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alephnerd ◴[08 Sep 25 13:14 UTC] No.45167849[source]▶
> Many mid-market and regional operators

These aren't Broadcom's ICPs.

> Nutanix

Good for Nutanix. Market segmentation exists for a reason.

The article is also written by Steve McDowell, who's analyst firm (NAND Research) is sponsored by Nutanix [0][1]

Welcome to Enterprise Sales.

[0] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=93FbVZGDXoY

[1] - https://www.nutanix.com/theforecastbynutanix/technology/hype...

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walterbell ◴[08 Sep 25 13:26 UTC] No.45167986[source]▶
The article mentions several VMware alternatives:

  - RedHat OpenShift (k8s)
  - Scale Computing HC3
  - Wind River Cloud 
  - public cloud providers
Any other alternatives?
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sherr ◴[08 Sep 25 13:51 UTC] No.45168267[source]▶
Xen is still around, including an open-source version. It's not as visible as it used to be but works e.g. XenServer (https://www.xenserver.com/editions). I'd look at this over VMWare anyday.
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1. stephen_g ◴[08 Sep 25 14:01 UTC] No.45168404[source]▶
When I was looking at solutions, most of what I found seemed to indicate Xen is waning in popularity. I considered XCP-ng but since KVM seems to be more preferred now, I ended up going with Proxmox for a few small work (3-5 hosts) and home (1 and 3 host) systems. It’s actually been rock-solid, basically had zero problems with it.
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2. walterbell ◴[08 Sep 25 14:42 UTC] No.45168931[source]▶
> rock-solid

Perl FTW, https://github.com/proxmox/pve-common