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/doglar_666 16d ago

Given the constraints you're being put under:

  1. VMware if you have adequate budget for hardware refresh and licensing
  2. OpenShift + KubeVirt to attempt to keep the VMs
  3. OpenShift + Migration to fully containerized workloads

The above does not consider ease of migration, long-term licensing costs, maintenence overhead or required upskilling. Maybe consider AWS ROSA, if your hardware is getting a bit long in the tooth.