My company is planning exactly this. VMware kinda sucks right now and keeps getting insanely expensive for no reason.
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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Drop the VMs and modernize. Containers, Kubernetes or if you really need VMs then get some cloud stuff, IaC. It's a brave new world.
Oh yeah and I never liked VMware, they are the Oracle of VMs.
Ironic, since their direct competitor is Oracle VirtualBox lol
Proxmox would like a word.
Never head of them, funnily enough. Interesting.
If you have a spare machine (or 2 if you want to test migration features) chuck it on and play around, it’s awesome.
VirtualBox is not an enterprise solution. These customers would be switching to hypervisor solutions like Citrix, Nutanix, etc.
Or containerizing with something like Kubernates.
Or moving to a cloud native solution.
Any number of things, just not moving their enterprise workloads to VirtualBox.
On the desktop side
Is there an alternative to windows VMs?
Windows host or Windows guest?
Assuming you mean hyper-v, I can't recommend proxmox enough.
It's a bloated new world. The closer you can stick to the metal - the better your product will be.
Strongly agree.