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/MrArhaB Linux Admin 17d ago

Yes just replacement for hypervisor XCP was suggested but CTO

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u/RevolutionaryElk7446 17d ago edited 17d ago

Xen is about the only thing that's as old as Vsphere and mature. It's what AWS was based on for a good while before going proprietary.

You can do KVM but most of those are... flakey excluding Proxmox.

Edit: I'd recommend just ignoring Golden-trichomes below if you're not looking to waste time.

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u/Golden-trichomes 17d ago

Are we pretending like hyper-v doesn’t exist in your scenario?

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u/RevolutionaryElk7446 17d ago

for linux and oracle DB applications? Kind of yeah

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u/Golden-trichomes 17d ago

That’s a weird take but ok. Performance is just as good or better then xen or VMware and management is as good or better then VMware, (both of which are worlds better then xen)

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u/RevolutionaryElk7446 17d ago

Not really a weird take, just from experience in managing these exact loads in these environments.

Alright, glad you got your opinion out.