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BrncHost_com

To what extent would you recommend VMware, and what are the reasons you would or wouldn't endorse its use? Our organization is considering VMware for our infrastructure, but we would like to discuss the practicality and advisability of this decision in detail.

Hertonis

If you have a lot of money, choose VMware, because nothing else on the market compares to it. If you don't have a lot of money, choose HyperV (any amount of Linux containers are free). If you don't have money, choose Proxmox.

I would currently choose Promox for small businesses, let's say up to 5 servers, and buy official Proxmox support in case of failure. Proxmox has software raid, HA, ZFS support, and a simple external application called Proxmox Backup Server that allows you to make incremental backups of containers and virtual machines. Unfortunately, for VMware it is an additional cost, e.g. buying Veeam.

BrncHost_com

@Hertonis said:
If you have a lot of money, choose VMware, because nothing else on the market compares to it. If you don't have a lot of money, choose HyperV (any amount of Linux containers are free). If you don't have money, choose Proxmox.

I would currently choose Promox for small businesses, let's say up to 5 servers, and buy official Proxmox support in case of failure. Proxmox has software raid, HA, ZFS support, and a simple external application called Proxmox Backup Server that allows you to make incremental backups of containers and virtual machines. Unfortunately, for VMware it is an additional cost, e.g. buying Veeam.

Thank you for your valuable comment. We will make a research and evaluation again. Thank you again

localhost

What are the reasons why your org considered to pick VMWare? What were the alternatives which were considered?

Otus9051

Proxmox > XCP-NG > Literally Qemu > VMware in my opinion. Always keep VMware at the last if you are a business.

BrncHost_com

@localhost said:
What are the reasons why your org considered to pick VMWare? What were the alternatives which were considered?

The biggest plus for us is that it will be fast and performant. It will create a comfortable and trouble-free structure for our users.

BrncHost_com

@Otus9051 said:
Proxmox > XCP-NG > Literally Qemu > VMware in my opinion. Always keep VMware at the last if you are a business.

Thank you for your valuable comment. We will do a research again and we will take your suggestions into consideration and we will create our structure accordingly. So what is your suggestion, which one is the best and most efficient?

localhost

@BrncHost_com said:

@localhost said:
What are the reasons why your org considered to pick VMWare? What were the alternatives which were considered?

The biggest plus for us is that it will be fast and performant. It will create a comfortable and trouble-free structure for our users.

This is not concrete reasoning. What strong points did vmware offer against competition?

What makes you say others are slow/ non performant?

SharedGrid

VMWare was recently bought out by Broadcom. Unless you turn over a lot of money, they won't want your business.

I work with businesses where their VMWare annual renewal has increased 300-400%.

If you're looking for something enterprise grade ($$$$$) similar to VMWare, then take a look at Nutanix. Otherwise, go with Proxmox.

yoursunny

We have a lot of money that we need two banks for FDIC coverage.
Yet we choose plain LXC for its lower overhead.

Advin

We had considered VMWare as an option, but the problem is that it's closed source software with extremely expensive licensing. They can raise the pricing at any time and your business will be forced to pay it.

Use Proxmox. It has some drawbacks, but it's free and open source.