What now for VMWare? What now for virtualisation?

I had heard vVols were being end of life'd I did try using them, they work fine but we hit a vvol limit with our SANs so I went back to traditional vmfs datastores.

I think we have 2 years before we are up for re-newal so next year need to start looking at do we stay or move to something else, I know will the higher ups will want to look to move to Hyper-V as we get it for free but not sure, never had good experience with Hyper-V plus I don't think MS are really doing much with it any more.

Whatever we go to needs to work with our backup systems as well, so will be a fun project not to mention the absolute nightmare that will be migrating all the VMs over to a new hypervisor.
 
Nikumba said:
I had heard vVols were being end of life'd I did try using them, they work fine but we hit a vvol limit with our SANs so I went back to traditional vmfs datastores.

I think we have 2 years before we are up for re-newal so next year need to start looking at do we stay or move to something else, I know will the higher ups will want to look to move to Hyper-V as we get it for free but not sure, never had good experience with Hyper-V plus I don't think MS are really doing much with it any more.

Whatever we go to needs to work with our backup systems as well, so will be a fun project not to mention the absolute nightmare that will be migrating all the VMs over to a new hypervisor.
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I did a tonne of Hyper-V in the past. Even NVGRE/HNV. If you need any kind of high performance: high throughout, high PPS, high IOPS... Don't bother. Even with RDMA and SR-IOV, the VMs can barely compete with VMware and PV.
 
Nikumba said:
I had heard vVols were being end of life'd I did try using them, they work fine but we hit a vvol limit with our SANs so I went back to traditional vmfs datastores.

I think we have 2 years before we are up for re-newal so next year need to start looking at do we stay or move to something else, I know will the higher ups will want to look to move to Hyper-V as we get it for free but not sure, never had good experience with Hyper-V plus I don't think MS are really doing much with it any more.

Whatever we go to needs to work with our backup systems as well, so will be a fun project not to mention the absolute nightmare that will be migrating all the VMs over to a new hypervisor.
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Yep, hard ended of support in VCF 9 - big shock to be fair, fortunately the storage vendors leaked it to us prior as we were just deploying a VCF 5.2 with iSCSI over vvols as principle storage so we had to shift to NFS. Seeing as nobody in the business will let me continue buying FC :(
 
khrall said:
With V9 being VVF & VCF Only - no longer a seperate Standard or Enterprise Plus edition, I can see a lot more of the customer base accelerating their move away from VMware/Broadcom. I work at a VAR and the conversation is daily with people looking into their options, but I now I fear there is not an option for most small to medium environments wanting to use vSphere.

Pretty sad for me, my career has been built around VMware based solutions for the last 13+ years.
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Yet Broadcom are happy to sell 3 year support contracts for the non VVF/VCF versions. I wonder how far into that they will just turn around and go 'whelp no more patches lol'.

looks nervously at EP support contract with a couple of years left to run....
 
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