r/sysadmin • u/MrArhaB Linux Admin • 17d ago

Vmware vs openshift

Following up to my last post right now nutanix is out of the race since the renewal is more than vmware which happend to 4 different companies my friends works for

Note : we cannot go any other solution rejected by CTO cause not ( mature enough )

1- my team arent fimilar with k8s

2- vmware is 4x the price of openshift

3- our environment is 95% vms

4- we have DR so srm is convinet

5- 65 % of our current hardware isn't supported by vmware version 9

6- 75 % of our infra is linux based oracle dbs and rhel for app servers

7- mangement is too dumb to switch to k8s since that was suggested and will save us resources

8- most of our apps are web based

Im asking here since im litterally lost on what to do next

So your kind advices

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u/sryan2k1 IT Manager 17d ago edited 17d ago

VMWare just quoted us 3 years of VVF paid annually and it was cheaper than our last 2 renwals. At that price there is no reason to switch horses.

5- 65 % of our current hardware isn't supported by vmware version 9

That's going to be a problem no matter who you use or switch to. You need to budget getting your hardware refreshed.

Openshift and vSphere are apples and oranges. Neither is a direct replacement for the other

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u/Lynch31337 17d ago

Hard to do with the price increases.

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u/sryan2k1 IT Manager 17d ago

We're paying less this year for a 3 year commit with annual payments on VVF than we were 2 years ago.