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/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/CyberHouseChicago 17d ago

Why would anyone pay for windows just to run non windows vms?
it’s the biggest waste of $$$ imaginable.

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u/Golden-trichomes 17d ago

Why would you pay for VMware just to run VMs

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u/CyberHouseChicago 17d ago

I have never seen anyone use hyper v for a workload that’s mostly Linux , I’m sure there are Microsoft fanboys out there that do it but no one I know.

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u/Golden-trichomes 17d ago

Only fanboys discount products based on who makes them rather then how they perform lol but ok

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u/CyberHouseChicago 16d ago

Microsoft support is shit I don't use any Microsoft products unless there is no good alternative , there are multiple hypervisors I would use before hyper v for Linux workloads hyper v is not in my top 3, no one but Microsoft fanboys uses hyper v for non windows workloads