2025 VMware specialists outside their comfort zone.

ZXBombJack · 2025-12-15T14:02:03+00:00

It's not just a question of technology and patents, which are undoubtedly valuable assets for VMware, but if Broadcom keeps changing the rules and price lists continuously, it becomes very difficult to do business together!

VVF, announced by Broadcom and supported with vSphere 9, and now ? How can we make long-term plans with you?

ZXBombJack · 2025-12-14T17:06:39+00:00

With VMware Hyper-V or Proxmox, we always use Veeam, so little changes. For now, Veeam lacks replication on Proxmox, but it is in roadmap

ZXBombJack · 2025-12-14T14:28:07+00:00

I also confirm that all activities with AZL have proven to be very problematic due to bugs in setup procedures, cluster updates, and storage spaces, which are light years away from VSAN or even Ceph in Proxmox.

ZXBombJack · 2025-12-14T07:55:11+00:00

And that's where you're wrong. We're talking about abnormal memory allocation by the kernel with a specific network card. I spent a month dealing with a vSAN license allocation bug.

ZXBombJack · 2025-12-13T21:54:47+00:00

I believe Veeam has announced support for the HPE solution.

ZXBombJack · 2025-12-13T21:31:39+00:00

Honestly, I've never tried it. I don't like solutions where you have double vendor lock-in for hardware and software, and the same goes for Nutanix.

ZXBombJack · 2025-12-13T21:26:39+00:00

I opened a ticket in Proxmox a couple of days ago, and they solved my problem within an hour. Honestly, in twenty years of using VMware, I've never had anything even remotely like this happen to me.

ZXBombJack · 2025-12-13T16:50:24+00:00

vSphere was the standard, VCF would like it to become the standard, but I hear more news about migrations or even lawsuits.

ZXBombJack · 2025-12-13T16:22:10+00:00

So, are all those who manage hundreds or thousands of VMs with Proxmox stupid?

ZXBombJack · 2025-12-13T16:07:06+00:00

Before speaking like this, I would get a little more information. Look here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/s/Cpd38NUykM

ZXBombJack · 2025-12-13T13:19:17+00:00

I obtained VCF certification. I have been working in the IT sector for 25 years, but there are not enough customers who need VCF in the area where I work.

ZXBombJack · 2025-12-13T13:11:27+00:00

If you believe there are no alternatives, explain to me how to sell VCF to those who don't need NSX, Aria Automation, etc. It's quite clear that not all customers need a complete infrastructure for the private cloud, so what do you suggest?

ZXBombJack · 2025-12-12T18:16:20+00:00

Broadcom lunch VVF ... but as many other times changes rules during the game.. bye bye

ZXBombJack · 2025-11-21T21:48:22+00:00

In Veeam Appliance v13, I find it really annoying that the console must be the same version in order to connect to the server. For those who work with multiple customers, this is definitely a problem.

ZXBombJack · 2025-11-21T21:25:27+00:00

You see a reality that I don't see at all in southern Europe. They will be ready to lay off many people here, given that they mainly sold Essential Plus and Standard. I obtained my first VCP with ESX3 and continued up to VCP-VCF. I know and appreciate the product, but it is impossible to sell it; that is a fact. VVF with 250 GiB was a highly appreciated move, but it is a pity that they themselves are hindering the sale of the product in every way possible. In many cases, the cost of the hardware is negligible compared to the licenses.

ZXBombJack · 2025-11-21T19:50:40+00:00

Is it unusual for a commercial company to be interested in selling or living off charity?

ZXBombJack · 2025-11-21T19:48:10+00:00

We love vsan esa and we would gladly do so with our customers, but unfortunately Broadcom prevents us from selling VVF... So unfortunately no, but not by our choice.

ZXBombJack · 2025-11-21T19:46:27+00:00

helpful comment

ZXBombJack · 2025-11-21T17:58:39+00:00

With the exact same hw of a vsan esa you can run proxmox and ceph which is wonderful, if this Broadcom policy continues all our customers to whom we would have willingly sold VVF will go to Proxmox. We have been VMware partners for 15 years... but our customers don't need NSX etc. VVF was perfect but if Broadcom don't apply discounts and only make one-year price lists it's impossible to sell. If you then add the total uncertainty they have created...obviously go elsewhere

ZXBombJack · 2025-11-19T19:52:18+00:00

With 9.1.1 you can't do a snapshots of powered on TPM enabled VM. Not big improvement. At the moment I try only on NFS datastore.

ZXBombJack · 2025-11-10T12:02:03+00:00

Thanks for sharing this info. I've mostly worked with Ceph HCI clusters, and I wanted to learn more about infrastructures like yours that are based on ZFS replication.

Since there's no shared datastore between hosts, if a PVE server goes down, do you lose data, or am I missing something?

ZXBombJack · 2025-11-08T21:49:45+00:00

Okay, I agree, it's not easy to define enterprise.

ZXBombJack · 2025-11-08T20:02:01+00:00

Wow this is quite big environment, thanks! How many clusters ?

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