Do others sense this? If so, what options do you see for folks to keep their servers but move off of VMware? Is it all RedHat?
Do others sense this? If so, what options do you see for folks to keep their servers but move off of VMware? Is it all RedHat?
HPE did a big brain move to support multiple hypervisor backends with their own frontend. The only way to go forward imho.
I'm using Proxmox at my current $dayjob, and we're quite happy with it. I come from a big VMware shop and I think most businesses could easily replace VMware with Proxmox.
I think Proxmox should just launch an Enterprise contract, regardless of the cost, just have one. Because right now I think the main obstacle halting adoption is their lack of any Enterprise SLA.
On a personal level I would love to see KubeVirt, or Openshift with KubeVirt, take over more. It just seems like a genius move to use the already established APIs of kubernetes with a hypervisor runtime.
I can't blame any company for wanting to stay out of that market.
"Premium"
Access to Enterprise repository
Complete feature-set
Support via Customer Portal
Unlimited support tickets
Response time: 2 hours* within a business day
Remote support (via SSH)
Offline subscription key activationWhat's a business day? I wouldn't call that a 24/7 SLA.
You asked for an Enterprise SLA. Not all Enterprise SLAs are 24/7. IM(Professional)E, most are not 24/7.
> What's a business day?
From the FAQ on the page linked to by guerby:
What are the business days/hours for support?
Ticket support provided by the Proxmox Enterprise support team is available on Austrian business days (CET/CEST timezone) for all Basic, Standard, or Premium subscribers, please see all details in the Subscription Agreement.
For different timezones, contact one of our qualified Proxmox resellers who will be able to offer you help with Proxmox solutions in your timezone and your local language.
Any serious enterprise software or hardware company absolutely has a 24/7 support option. They all have a base option that is not 24/7 for a significantly lower price.
There’s no way you’re replacing VMware in any company of any size without 24/7 support.
I know thst youre right about the wording turning off orgs but I do wonder when the biggest enterprise organisation can barely offer it in practice what really is the show stopper for business.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1jfumvw/broadcom_...
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/euro_cloud_body_ecco_...
Proxmox may come to many an HN visitor's mind (and I use it myself extensively, all my home services run on it), but it actually doesn't have a lot of enterprise features and isn't a drop-in replacement.
There's also Harvester "open source hyperconverged infrastructure" https://harvesterhci.io/
Or some Xen spinoff like https://xcp-ng.org/
Smaller shops are migrating to Proxmox.
They went to Nutanix right before the broadcom acquisition and never looked back.
They were much happier, and HCI was very nice for k8s nodes.
Not kidding, that’s the main blocker. We have the DevOps knowledge on our team to go to containers, prepackaged dev environments, etc. But corporate cyber tends to respond to our requests to discuss cyber policy and escalate via proper channels with “sorry that’s against policy”.
This is not my experience at one company but multiple good, name brand companies that generally do good engineering and software work.
NVidia are pushing hard in the direction of combined accelerators and ARM CPU (i.e. DGX, Thor, Jetson, etc).
Some of the upcoming hardware hits a sweet spot in terms of performance / $ / W. It's hard to ignore.
But Proxmox is ignoring ARM. Which is a big mistake IMO
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Doing a head-on VMware takeout path hasn’t been a good business strategy for companies that tried it.