What now for VMWare? What now for virtualisation?

[Nikumba]

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.

 

[aaronyuri]

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.

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.

 

[Throrik]

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.

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