One of my biggest pet peeves with corporate websites. It's like they're afraid that clearly stating what they do will prevent them from growing and doing other things as well. So instead they refuse to say anything coherent.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

I think marketing graduates don't actually research their products anymore. It's mostly irrelevant.

If they did having something like a "product Spotlight" that rotates through some modules on their main product would solve this problem.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

37% JavaScript

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

it feels like monopolies have become so common and widespread that companies are starting to forget that sometimes you can lose customers after raising prices.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Broadcom doesn't care. They exploit the lag time for very large companies to switch. In that time, they can set prices as high as they want, because the company won't go without licenses or support.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, short term they will probably make a lot of money despite losing market share. But long term, it is one proprietary dependency that will be forever gone, unless open sourced.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

What do they care? They can lose 1000 customers with this change before it affects them, and if they lose 1999 customers then they're still ahead.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago

I can't tell if this is a paid-for article by OpenNebula or what. It reads that way.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

We were a medium-sized VMware client, roughly 4000 VMs. We're almost done migrating to Nutanix.

Sadly not open source, but less money towards Broadcom is a good thing overall.

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Thanks for sharing your experience. Was XCP-ng considered as a migration target? Would you have some feedback to share on what made it unsuitable for you? Thank you!

They have a special migration tool from VMWare: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/installation/migrate-to-xcp-ng/#-from-vmware

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

I can almost assure you, it was not considered.

Nutanix is a mature platform, but more importantly, they're a mature vendor, which means support contracts with SLAs.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

I wasn't involved in the tender, so I don't know who initially applied and what were the specifics.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't nutanix licensed the same way more or less?

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m glad VMWare overplayed their hand and lost.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago

Depends on what your metrics are. If they are for longevity and long-term business health, sure.

But I don't think that's how they're measuring success. They are maximizing shareholder value in the short term, and any medium to long-term problems will be concerns for another set of C-Suite vultures as the current ones will have already moved on, or retired with their golden parachutes.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 15 points 2 weeks ago

According to Beeks, OpenNebula has enabled the company to dedicate more of its 3,000 bare metal server fleet to client loads instead of to VM management, as it had to with VMware. With OpenNebula purportedly requiring less management overhead, Beeks is reporting a 200 percent increase in VM efficiency since it now has more VMs on each server.

Salt in the wound for VMware.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly most clients we've had just move to hyperv since theyre already running a bunch of windows servers.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fuck nebula. They just know how to corpo speak to execs who dont know what's good for their infrastructure.

I had to go to YouTube to see an example of their interface and it looks terrible. A bunch of whitespace and animations. I can't imagine their CLI will be any better.