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Similar story to a VCPP partner I know of, tenfold increase = rapidly looking at alternatives for their hosting platform.

I believe it's worse than that, it's a 16 core minimum PER CPU, not per host. A dual 8 core server would need 32 cores of licensing! I am aware of several people recieving a 10x increase, if you were an education customer, it's even higher as there does not appear to be an education discount...

Nothing to apologise for, it's healthy discussion. It comes down to the usual IT response "It depends". The VMware stack is a very capable product set and finding a cost effective solution as a replacement is no easy task without some level of compromise, be that features, function, support or...

Ultimately it will be up to the individual companies as to which route they will go. There is no one size fits all to replace VMware for everyone. Larger FTSE companies tend to be very risk adverse with their crown jewels. I'm aware of some of the Nutanix reviews, a lot of those are based on...

Fortunately for a lot of people, they will be synchronised with a hardware refresh & the end of their 5 year VMware contract, or they will suck up the contract uplift until the hardware is due for replacement, but it's a large upheaval. We've had a lot of customers that weren't lucky enough to...

Working for a reseller, it's certainly generated a lot of work for me! People typically looking at Azure Stack HCI / Hyper-V, Nutanix, with a few looking at RedHat Openshift, as an alternative to the VMware platform. The main issue with the FOSS based solutions (Proxmox, Xcp-NG), is the...

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I've been doing various degrees of Pre-Sales roles for the last 10 years, currently working at one of the top VARs in the UK, very much focusing on the skillset you mention. I would say that these days the role is a lot less "technical speeds & feeds" and much more sales/customer orientated -...

Look at Azure Migrate. It will allow you to do discovery, right-sizing, and cost-optimisation, prior to migrating your workloads.

Have a look at Better Kitchens, that's where I got mine from. Similar price to DIY Kitchens, but offered a True Handless kitchen, whereas DIY only offered the J-Pull style. Came in much cheaper than Wren (ridiculous price) and Howdens (silly hidden pricing game).

VMware vSphere home lab = Supermicro AMD SoC Motherboard M11SDV-8C+-LN4F, Intel NUC & Synology DS1821+, Unifi Switch APC UPS. Licensing is provided by my employer under NFR (Nested vSAN, NSX & vROps). MS Azure Subscription = Provided by my employer under Visual Studio license Veeam Repo = old...

Not sure if it's been mentioned anywhere, but there legally should be a trial period for taking the new role. Take the 35k role, and use those 4 weeks or so to try and find a new role, if your lucky, you'll be able to get the role you want, have a 4-week buffer, and still have your redundancy...

I can't really help with a site with "What to do/ not to do", but loads of information on forums like Screwfix, DIYnot, etc. You just need to dig through to what is relevant to you. When we started looking at our project, I started off with https://www.kitchenplanner.net/ to get an idea of...

I used Better Kitchens for mine, really good pre and post sales, would 100% recommend. The reason we chose them over DIY Kitcehns was they offered a True Handleless kitchen style. No, I don't work for them. My other recommendation is to start looking at and ordering your appliances soon...

I 100% agree with this, sat the AWS SA Pro exam from home a few weeks back which is a 3-hour exam. My bladder was about to pop and I could barely see the words on the screen to review by the end. Next time I have to sit a long exam, I'll definitely be doing it from a testing center!

Option A - have the conversation, don't agree to anything, just take notes etc. If you are then presented with a settlement agreement, they should also offer to pay for independent legal advice as a part of this.

Strangely enough, I've just placed an order for our new kitchen this evening (just cabinets, no worktops/appliances/sinks/taps etc), which is a part of an extension project. Looked at DIY Kitchens, but they didn't do the true handless style we liked. Went to Wren - They quoted approx 13.5K...

Awesome looking table, but I cannot unsee the two kallax units being on different sides now that I've noticed it.

Just remember it's not household, it's individual. As someone that went via this a few years ago, We claimed when I was sub 60k, with doing tax returns and paying a percentage back at the end of the tax year. Once I crossed the 60k threshold, filled in the form on the government gateway to say...

Renewed mine recently, took a little over 3 weeks