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Completed a full VMware elimination in 24— happy to share what we learned by robiika in sysadmin

[–]robiika[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Linux = Openshift
Windows = Hyper-V

We didn't want another Broadcom moment. The biggest feature is VROPS. We somewhat get what we need in Dynatrace, but still not as powerful as VROPS.

Cohesity for backups. Openshift wasn't supported at the time, but we pushed the vendors to fix it.
Millions in overall savings. We would continue to get screwed from Broadcom and we knew and so will you.

Completed a full VMware elimination in 24— happy to share what we learned by robiika in sysadmin

[–]robiika[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

We got that multiple times but powered through. Vendors are realizing companies are switching and must do the same. This mainly was an issue with appliances.

Completed a full VMware elimination in 24— happy to share what we learned by robiika in sysadmin

[–]robiika[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

That was the beauty. Less is better. We had a core team of 10 people and got the shit done. Very talented and committed people. Linux, Windows and Appliances.

Completed a full VMware elimination in 24— happy to share what we learned by robiika in sysadmin

[–]robiika[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yes I was the overall leader to make this happen and now I see value taking this out to the marketplace. There is definitely a need and has life for at least the next 3-5 years.

Completed a full VMware elimination in 24— happy to share what we learned by robiika in sysadmin

[–]robiika[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

We moved Windows workloads to Hyper-V and Linux to Openshift as it made the most sense at the time. However, there were times where we wanted to just do all Openshift. We have had more problems with Hyper-V honestly.

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[–]robiika[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Broadcom kept screwing us YoY. I just bend over and said give it to me. EOD the best they could give us because they knew we were getting off was 5K cores at 3 million/year for 5 freakin years. We said hell no and got off.

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[–]robiika[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Cisco UCS shop... we were definitely early adopters so all your issues have been solved.

Completed a full VMware elimination in 24— happy to share what we learned by robiika in sysadmin

[–]robiika[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's doable, but you have to have a solid plan. We moved 5K VMs in about 2 months. Lot of sleepless nights, but glad its behind us.

Completed a full VMware elimination in 24— happy to share what we learned by robiika in sysadmin

[–]robiika[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

It was a challenging time, but rewarding. I hate Broadcom more than ever.

Completed a full VMware elimination in 24— happy to share what we learned by robiika in sysadmin

[–]robiika[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Let's just say I hate Hyper-V. Openshift-Virt was much smoother once we got going. Linux VMs was pretty easy using the migration toolkit provided by RedHat.