Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/06/tesco-moving-40000-server-workloads-off-vmware-amid-broadcoms-abusive-conduct/

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nubinetwork•53m ago

> Tesco is also dealing with migration challenges related to data security because its new, unnamed virtualization software is incompatible with the Veeam and Zerto products it uses.

What is a VMware alternative, that isn't compatible with backup software? I'm guessing it's not nutanix?

Fordec•37m ago

I've been hearing that HPE are on a push lately with larger enterprises trying to encroach on VMWare during their pricing changes, might be them.

cloudie78•33m ago

OpenShift as an alternative to Tanzu.

OpenShift Virtualisation or whatever it’s called for the virtualisation part of VMWare.

Used to do those migration in a previous life.

Flere-Imsaho•33m ago

Probably Proxmox. Veeam support is relatively new.

nick__m•11m ago

Proxmox for 40k vm would be surprising also veeam support Proxmox.

proxysna•1m ago

I'd would assume that this is not a monolithic cluster of 40k vm's but at least tens of clusters. Which puts it in the realm of capabilities of Proxmox.

digitalsin•17m ago

Nutanix has served us well over the last 8 or so years.

xvxvx•41m ago

Before AI, the cloud was the big thing. It took years for companies to understand the risk of hosting on someone else’s infrastructure, regardless of the initial cost savings. I’m somewhat happy to see reality sink in, though this specific case is quite alarming.

If AI survives, we’ll see inflated costs drive companies back to hiring actual human beings to do the work.

tjwebbnorfolk•28m ago

VMWare was run on local infrastructure long before the cloud existed.

sokoloff•41m ago

If Tesco needs character witnesses that Broadcom has done this to many other customers, I think they’ll find plenty of willing participants.

Broadcom’s marketing for Proxmox is extremely effective.

GlacierFox•9m ago

Why would you self sabotage such a considerable contract? Are Broadcom stupid?

simonjgreen•5m ago

Evidence does tend to point that direction, yes. What they did to the VMware ecosystem is reprehensible

proxysna•5m ago

Great time to migrate off VMware. All the migration paths are well-trodden by now, but goddamn 40k vm's. A lot of work ahead.

rwmj•1m ago

I work at Red Hat and a customer moving 40k servers off VMware is a fairly regular occurrence. It'd be one of the larger migrations but certainly not unusual. We can usually do about 500-1000 guests per day once the migration is fully underway after the initial engagement and a qualification period where the VMs get scoped for anything unusual / difficult to move.

It's all based around virt-v2v and the typical target is OpenShift Virtualization.

[I don't have any specific knowledge about where this Tesco account is going. We have plenty of competitors.]

nmstoker•4m ago

I wonder if it's fair to say Tesco are experiencing being treated somewhat like they treat farmers!

dzonga•4m ago

this is probably another big risk with enterprises going all in on using spring-boot.

migrating to quarkus won't save you either - since it's IBM on the other hand.

if only other ecosystems could catch up to Java/JVM solutions.

lijok•1m ago

What’s so special about Java/JVM solutions? What is for example the Go ecosystem missing in comparison?

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