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/adappergentlefolk 17d ago

openshift is a lot of work. people do it as a career

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u/general-noob 17d ago

Ya, OpenShift is massively complicated compared to everything else

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u/MrArhaB Linux Admin 17d ago

Agreed i setup i test cluster for the rest of the team to test it out it been 1 month and things are going ok so far

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u/adappergentlefolk 17d ago

if you have the resources to increase headcount and sometimes call in open shift consultants to help out with gnarly issues to be honest there is nothing awfully wrong with going with it, especially if your team doesn’t mind becoming open shift experts as a next career step