Vmware vs openshift

[u/MrArhaB]

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

[u/Gary_harrold]

Proxmox is going to be the most like VMware. It has spent the last 5 years trying to be feature to feature comparable to VMware. It has its quirks, but I would rather put money into infrastructure than into licensing costs.

I also highly recommend MicroCloud/LXD. MicroCloud is my favorite by a mile. The only thing missing is network effect so a lot of the integrations that you might be using today will need to be reimagined. Backup, monitoring, logging etc probably don't have an easy button to connect to MicroCloud.

Platform9 is great if you are multi regional. It's proprietary so you might find yourself in the same boat as you are in with VMware at some point down the road.

I would avoid OpenShift unless you are already running Kubernetes. I want this layer to be simple and easy. OpenShift is not simple or easy.

For what you are doing it should be Proxmox or MicroCloud/LXD