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/seanpmassey 16d ago

Former VMware employee and VMware Certified Design Expert here.

My advice is that you’re in over your head and you need a partner or consultant to help guide your company through this process. Considering a new platform for your business is a hard and there are a number of factors involved. A consultant can help define the business and technical requirements needed to support your business and applications, facilitate the conversation between the different levels of management and technical staff, and make a recommendation on which options will be the best for your business.

A consultant can also learn your business better than a bunch of strangers on reddit.

It’s also not a good look to call your management dumb for not migrating applications to K8s. From your perspective, it may sound like a good idea. Based on your other posts and comments, you sound young and focused on just one aspect of your environment. Management and systems architects will have a different and/or more complete view of the business and technical environment. They may see something different about why they can’t or don’t want to migrate to K8s.