Broadcom closes $69 billion VMware deal after China approval

3 years ago by SheeEttin to c/sysadmin

Broadcom on Wednesday closed its $69 billion acquisition of cloud-computing firm VMware after receiving regulatory approval in last major market China and ending a months-long saga.

surewhynotlem 41 points 3 years ago

Next week's news: broadcom increases the price of VMware licenses ten fold and halts all feature development.

Source: they did it to Symantec. Broadcom is where tech goes to be milked to death.

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FailBait 8 points 3 years ago

They do that on their own. VMWare would blow up every deal we tried working with Dell, and our account reps told us everyone in Dell despised the VMWare account teams. The company that struggles to make a shit that doesn’t suck?

And that’s why we’re switching to OpenStack next year…

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netburnr 18 points 3 years ago

They have already told us out next licenses will be core based instead of socket based. Going to extra fuck over those who chose the AMD for the cheaper per core licensing.

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graveyardchickenhunt 6 points 3 years ago

Not like they didn't add that 32 core power license limit once big epyc CPUs came out...

I don't care so much about that, more so about the "everything is a subscription" bullshit. Hope they are least keep the offline variant...

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cm0002 5 points 3 years ago

Hope they are least keep the offline variant...

It's nice to have dreams lmao :'( ah well it's proxmox for now

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davidisgreat 1 point 3 years ago

We have some air gapped environments. VMware have asked us to install vRealize to monitor the CPU usage. Then they want us to export a report from vRealize every month and upload it to VMware so they can bill us accordingly.

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bfg9k 17 points 3 years ago

Mergers of this scale should not be legal.

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ichbinjasokreativ 14 points 3 years ago

Just use proxmox

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davidisgreat 11 points 3 years ago

My management is dead set on getting off VMware as quickly as possible. I've spent a lot of the past year and a half setting up test labs and reporting on these potential replacements:

oVirt and RHVC
Nutanix
scale
Azure Stack HCI
VX rail
Harvester and Rancher
A variety of qemu wrappers

None of us are very happy about it but it looks like Azure Stack HCI is the winner so far.

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shaggy959500 2 points 3 years ago

My team has a cost estimate for Azure Stack HCI as that was the winner for us. However, cost to switch is high and we’re just waiting for now. We will see if that waiting is a mistake….

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randombullet 10 points 3 years ago

I'm happy I started with Proxmox so I didn't need to relearn another hypervisor

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possiblylinux127 1 point 3 years ago

Honestly I'm surprised that they aren't targeting us markets more. It seems like a market that they could get into if they partner with the right companies

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CriticalMiss 10 points 3 years ago

I was certain that this was signed like 2-3 years ago, huh, tough luck to VMWare admins I guess.

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123 5 points 3 years ago

Windows Hyper-V team right now: https://tenor.com/bZtum.gif

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