Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to ‘get butt back to office’ after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies::In a meeting on Tuesday after completing the $69 billion merger, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told VMWare employees their days of working remotely were over.

  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    VMware is effectively a monopoly on entreprise virtualization. What else are the costumers going to pick?

    HyperV is a joke, promox is amazing but it’s free software, and every other relevant provider is just a layer on top of VMware.

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      7 months ago

      Aside from the fact that it runs on Windows, what makes HyperV so bad?

      I’ve used it a bunch and it seems fine save for some weird quirks with OSs older than 2012 R2

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        7 months ago

        We have several big clusters built on mixed virtual and bare metal. I would prefer our system engineer to manually build on virtualbox before even touching hyper-v (which we clearly don’t!). For some political reasons our IT forced us to test to build a solution on hyper-v (cost saving on some non critical infrastructure proposed by some very non-tecnical people), I still have nightmares. I am not even the person who had to do it in practice.

        It is long to explain it here, just give it a try. Windows server and all releted solutions are simply bad for real workloads. Who use it on server is just a company who doesn’t need to be productive on the IT side. Their core business is not tech related and they don’t care other than getting cheap sys admins

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        7 months ago

        Well, I mean, that. It’s very capable but Microsoft gimps it by bundling it with windows server. The fact you have to use RDP to administer it is itself a non-starter.