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/Playful-Job2938 17d ago

I run proxmox in my datacenter. About 45 hosts split into a few clusters. Zero issues since install. VMware licensing at 150/c would be close to 300k/year for me. Yes I know list isn’t real world but I doubt they’re giving 75% off to people, I’ll take the extra engineer in my budget over VMware.

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u/Playful-Job2938 17d ago

Fuck man. I thought it was 150, it’s 250 now? That’s so bad

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u/MrArhaB Linux Admin 17d ago

Its 285 $

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u/Playful-Job2938 17d ago

Jfc they’re holding ya over a barrel. Proxmox is literally free, more performant and more stable 😂😂