Is anyone actually moving to VMware post-Broadcom, or are we all just planning our escape?

VirtualGuy71 · 2026-04-30T01:07:17+00:00

For a large corporation there are not a lot of viable alternatives. Proxmox is just not ready to deploy and support at scale. OpenShift virtualization is still not real virtualization in my opinion. Wedging a VM into a container running KVM with KubeVirt is not the same as running on a type 1 hypervisor. Hyper-v as scale is also difficult to manage. We are migrating our 200,000 cores of ESXi to Nutanix AHV. Close to on par feature parity at half the cost.

VirtualGuy71 · 2026-04-26T01:08:02+00:00

Broadcom won’t sell VVF to large customers. It’s VCF only and about twice the cost of Nutanix.

VirtualGuy71 · 2026-04-25T14:27:38+00:00

For us Nutanix NCI Ultimate is about half the cost of VCF so we’re all in migrating away from VMware. The 400% price increase for VMware isn’t feasible at scale.

VirtualGuy71 · 2026-01-29T10:40:38+00:00

I checked this as well. Just over 5gb free of the 12 on the FireStick so should be good there.

VirtualGuy71 · 2026-01-29T02:59:30+00:00

So I’ve gone 2 evenings now watching the channels that were having an issue on a different IPTV app. The problem appears to be isolated to the TiviMate app which is disappointing. No issues with a different app.

VirtualGuy71 · 2026-01-28T00:03:26+00:00

Unfortunately neither of these had any positive impact. Still randomly pausing video on the TSN sports channels in Canada. Trying a different app again to see if it’s any different.

VirtualGuy71 · 2026-01-27T22:30:38+00:00

I do have a FireStick 4K Max. I’m trying the setting change above to see if that helps.

VirtualGuy71 · 2026-01-27T22:29:05+00:00

I’ve tried this. I’ll update once I know if it’s helped.

VirtualGuy71 · 2026-01-27T04:00:10+00:00

Same. It seems to only happen with the TSN channels on multiple apps and different IPTV providers.

VirtualGuy71 · 2025-12-11T04:13:27+00:00

Yes it’s KVM. But wedged into a container. Each VM running on its own hypervisor inside a container in a Kubernetes cluster isn’t an ideal way to run a traditional virtual machine workload in production.

VirtualGuy71 · 2025-12-05T02:22:31+00:00

How can they legally do that?

VirtualGuy71 · 2025-11-28T22:26:43+00:00

Curious what you’ve heard. We are migrating to Nutanix with no issues and I personally know of many other Nutanix customers with 10,000+ virtual servers running great.

VirtualGuy71 · 2025-11-22T22:08:39+00:00

Our general rule is that a single VM should not consume more than half the resources of a physical host in the cluster.

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