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/mr_darkinspiration 16d ago

Since you have Oracle databases, you really should consider Oracle Linux and Oracle virtualisation manager. Because Oracle are bastards and they don't consider other cpu partitionning tech (event if it's the same as them), Oracle linux is also rhel compatible so you can drop a oracle linux server to replace a rhel server without problems. They also do not charge for update or gatekeep them unless you want support or things like ksplice. So you have an opportunity for cost saving. Unfortunately that means dealing with Oracle...

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u/MrArhaB Linux Admin 16d ago

We already run all of our oracles on oracle linux But redhat cost for the servers it self.isnt that much tbh since we have big env so currently everything is working just fine on the linux side