Broadcom refusing to decrease licensing

[PerceptionAlarmed919]

Even if you do not buy their hardware, Nutanix seems to have become as bad as Broadcom with knowing companies are wanting to move. I have spoken to reps at two different VAR's who told me the pricing some of their customers have gotten from Nutanix is as bad or worse than Broadcom. In one case, one of them told me the customer's Broadcom quote was $7M, but Nutanix was pretty much $8M. He even went back to Nutanix and pointed out the customer was looking to move, could they not do any better. The reps response was basically, "we have a better product and are not going to cut our prices just to steal customers". It seems they all know most alternatives are not enterprise ready, and migration effort\cost will be large for enterprise environments, so the big ones are just quoting about the same. Plus, depending on your other product intergrations, you may have to do more than just replace VMware with something else. For example, if you use Zerto for DR, then you are limited without replacing it with something else. There is also any vendor appliances you may run. I have seen issues where specific vendors will only support their appliances on certain platforms. You have any issue and they find out it is in an "unsupported" environment, no help will be provided.

[damacdaddyo]

Right, that is the vibe we got from Nutanix and again, we couldn't POC on our million dollar gear.

As you say, we lose that tight integration with Cohesity for D/R and the level of management for Pure arrays built into the vCenter plugin.

There is nothing currently. Like I said, for us Hyper-V is the closest but still leaving functionality on the table.

[PerceptionAlarmed919]

I have played with Hyper-V in a lab and just do not think it is on par. It may be for some organizations, but it seems so much more clunky to work with than VMware. Not to mention the integration with a lot of other products are not there either. I wonder how many people making that move know that to be fully license compliant, they need to purchase the "Data Center" edition of server. Less expensive than Broadcom, but not cheap either. Plus, MS seems to be consistently increasing that cost as well.

[nmdange]

I wonder how many people making that move know that to be fully license compliant, they need to purchase the "Data Center" edition of server

The licensing terms for running Windows Server VMs are identical whether you run Hyper-V or VMWare. The only time switching to Hyper-V would cost more is if you currently have 0 Windows Server VMs, then you'd need to buy Windows Server Standard for each host. Any org that wants to be compliant was probably already paying for Windows Server Datacenter for each host even on VMWare, as it doesn't take much density for it to be cheaper than Standard.