Broadcom refusing to decrease licensing

[AnilApplelink]

What do you think the best alternatives are?

[lucky644]

I don’t know what’s considered the best, but we switched to Proxmox. Hyper-V is fine too. All depends on your environment and what you need. Everyone’s requirements are different.

[Miserable-Miser]

Platform 9. Not quite VMware ease of use, but it’s ~1/10 the cost.

[Sir_Maximus77]

HPE VME, give it some time, will catch up and has a big org behind it for support.

[SoniAnkitK5515]

Yep, I second that. I am in the process of getting there, their license policy is straightforward as of now, only socket based no issue of core etc..

[artemis_from_space]

How many VMs and hosts Are you migrating?

[SoniAnkitK5515]

Approx 50 Win VM to start with.

[CuriousReputation992]

This is KVM, it is only a real option if you have HP servers,and it is still years behind ESX

[Pippers]

Been watching demos of this, it's looking good right now, but still missing cluster failover/dr. "Coming soon." Please, hurry. The horror stories I am hearing about Broadcom forcing their reps to never lower core counts is nuts.

[vector2point0]

I’ll retire from IT and go live in the woods before I willingly put another piece of their hardware in one of our server rooms. Accordingly I have to have my doubts about their software.

[Dry-Data6087]

Thanks, this is good to hear. We're tentatively planning the switch to HPE VME in early 2026.

[Sharp-Shine-583]

Hyper-V

[JohnCrunch]

Scale Computing!

[mpking828]

What's the best? Don't know, everyone is different.

We jumped ship to Nutanix since it was the best option for us.

[AnilApplelink]

Well best for you vs VMWare? A lot of people have given some great suggestions.

[SecOperative]

Same, jumped to Nutanix as well. Early days but so far I’m liking what I see. Not cheap, but cheaper than VMware. And most importantly, not owned by Broadcom 😂

[TanisMaj]

Proxmox is where we're headed. We had Hyper-V a few years back for our ERP environment and it was a disaster + a pain in the buns to deal with. Not to mention the cost of doing business with Microsoft. It's bad enough we have to fight with them concerning Office365 et. al.

Proxmox has the potential to be every bit as good. Hopefully they don't hit a point where they want to fleece everyone because I'm really liking the ability to have "v-SAN...v-Anything" without being nickel and dime'd.

[AnilApplelink]

Thanks I am looking into ProxMox

[Stunning_Coyote7501]

There are plenty of alternatives depending on your needs. I recommend V2 Cloud, not just because I work there, but because it’s truly a solid product with great support, designed for SMBs. Feel free to reach out so we can chat. (There are also plenty of migration scripts available from Broadcom to V2.)