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VMware Migration Pain

Teams struggle to migrate off VMware due to slow, risky, manual processes, licensing cost spikes, and missing hypervisor features.

In their words

how many vm's can we get away with while still supported and have access to HA, DRS and vMotion

r/vmware on Reddit

they're on consultant #3 expecting a different answer & our license expires in 18 months

r/MSSP on Reddit

Our renewal is coming up soon, and we're looking into options.

r/sysadmin on Reddit

We're seeing a 300–400% increase in VMware licensing costs.

r/sysadmin on Reddit

We're moving to Nutanix. I don't know how Broadcom is still committing to their jacked up pricing.

r/vmware on Reddit

the more I migrate, the more I find little things that requires hours of thinking and workarounds

r/Proxmox on Reddit

I then noticed that the workers all had virtio NICs again. I changed them to E1000 and they tested fine

r/Proxmox on Reddit

We are not entirely sure if we should migrate to Proxmox as some are not convinced of it's maturity and enterprise ability.

r/ITManagers on Reddit

With the uncertainty around Broadcom's VMware strategy, we're evaluating a move to bare metal.

r/openshift on Reddit

I have to migrate our Windows and Linux devs from on-prem provisioned VMs to Azure. Looking for real-world experience on the best architecture.

r/AZURE on Reddit

I have a few server deployments coming up where the customer was previously on a perpetual VMware plan, but that is long gone.

r/msp on Reddit

AHV hosts with VPC enabled had host CPU running steadily at 100%.

r/nutanix on Reddit

I work in automating conversions off VMware and 40,000 VMs is just a lot of data to move.

Hacker News

you can't easily switch your admins and service desk techs to a different product. That alone takes months, of not years, and costs a lot.

Hacker News

Sysadmins and infrastructure teams

Where they talk

  • r/sysadmin
  • r/vmware
  • r/Proxmox
  • r/nutanix
  • r/AZURE
  • r/ITManagers
  • r/msp
  • r/openshift

Tools they use today

  • VMware
  • Proxmox
  • Hyper-V
  • Veeam
  • Nutanix
  • OpenShift
  • Nutanix AHV
  • vSAN

Why those fall short

  • Hyper-V management weak, Azure Local lacks snapshots, third-party appliances VMware-only
  • Alternatives lack thin provisioning, snapshots, polish, and are more time consuming
  • names alone are hard to distinguish under time pressure
  • migration and TCO planning is manual, gut-feel and coupled to old runbooks
  • Rigid undocumented requirements, prechecks fail without explanation, KBs not consolidated