What now for VMWare? What now for virtualisation?

I've spent months testing performance from esxi to kvm and single core and disk performance is a good chunk worse and I have tried everything, it's a a shame. I tried the same workload on aws though and it's even worse than local kvm so there is that.
 
ChrisD. said:
So very true. And further to that, when you want to test BC/DR plans, oh no we can't possibly do that. Then wonder why when you need to invoke it everything falls on its face.
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"We need to test our BCP at least every quarter. We've not tested for over a year now..."
"We can't afford the downtime or paying the staff overtime to test that."
*Experience a catastrophic outage, enacting the BCP*
"WHY IS NOTHING WORKING???"
"Because you didn't want to test it regularly, and now we're having to fix things in tandem with enacting the BCP."
*Company loses 10x what the testing would've cost."
 
Semple said:
How are you getting on with it?
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I Had a meeting but their kvm is juat branded no chanhlhe though i have to test it later in the year for the company. Most of my time had been tesring nearly every option on the libvirt xml to test performance. Found a few bits to improve and found that with kvm and hyperthreading things like passmark benchmark show much worse thsn vmware with hyperthreading on.
 
Yaayuh! said:
We're currently moving our infrastructure from on-prem vmware to Azure with the rest of our stuff. Can't wait to get off it, Broadcom can suck a lemon.
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Doing this also. Got my f u email a little while ago. It was expected but it sucks given how much we have invested both in cash and knowledge in VMWare
 
d_brennen said:
Doing this also. Got my f u email a little while ago. It was expected but it sucks given how much we have invested both in cash and knowledge in VMWare
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Poor @ChrisD. is getting twitches with that captial W in VMware :D

Funnily enough had a VMware day today. Troubleshooting the old NSX-T native Load Balancers and they ABSOLUTELY SUCK!
 
Throrik said:
Poor @ChrisD. is getting twitches with that captial W in VMware :D

Funnily enough had a VMware day today. Troubleshooting the old NSX-T native Load Balancers and they ABSOLUTELY SUCK!
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They can capitalise **** VMWARE

Not sure if the plan is working, or is it just driving customers elsewhere? We can't justify reupping with Broadcom for what we do, it isn't worth the money
 
d_brennen said:
They can capitalise **** VMWARE

Not sure if the plan is working, or is it just driving customers elsewhere? We can't justify reupping with Broadcom for what we do, it isn't worth the money
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We're the opposite, we can't justify cloud-native with what we do. We're formerly mostly AWS and have gone all in on VCF. A re-architecture and shift in development process would reduce hyperscaler costings, but that shift isn't happening for a long, long time. Plus, I've said many, many times - I don't believe any other SDN comes close with it's agentless, powerful capabilities than NSX, and I'm someone who has basically been forced into NSX roles for the last 6-7 years and not a huge fan of working with it.

I do feel for small SMBs though, they've been hung out to dry because they're simply not BC target audience.
 
img said:
I Had a meeting but their kvm is juat branded no chanhlhe though i have to test it later in the year for the company. Most of my time had been tesring nearly every option on the libvirt xml to test performance. Found a few bits to improve and found that with kvm and hyperthreading things like passmark benchmark show much worse thsn vmware with hyperthreading on.
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I know they've discontinued it now - but I saw better performance using Clear Linux (the intel maintained and optimised kernel).

So if any distro has picked up that kernel or it's patches then it might be worth a look.
 
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