VMware End of Availability on Many VMware vSphere Editions

[Cliff Robinson]

VMware announced the end of availability of many VMware vSphere editions effective immediately which will cause churn for small customers

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[Evan]

As was expected by just about everybody , let’s see I know some corporates did deals before it closed that will see them doing fine for years to come but the little guy pretty much may choose to run away and use hyper-v, proxmox, or other options. Will know soon enough how this goes down.

 

[ano]

we have some stuck oem deals thats in nomansland now cannot get keys, but invoices have been payed, not cool

 

[unwind-protect]

This will turn into a demonstration of the powers of open source over commercial software.

The vendor suddenly changing the system in an undesired direction (with or without the vendor being sold) without the right to split the project is a killer.

 

[i386]

This will turn into a demonstration of the powers of open source over commercial software.

https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/Brand_Standards_RH-IBM_Assets_NotThis1.svg

 

[unwind-protect]

https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/Brand_Standards_RH-IBM_Assets_NotThis1.svg

Well, point taken

 

[vxspiritxv]

Is there an open source alternative to Horizon? As far as I know the only good paid alternative is Citrix. I run a Horizon deployment and would love to get from under their thumb... Full vm clients, not RDP apps, over a cluster of servers.

 

[zunder1990]

Is there an open source alternative to Horizon? As far as I know the only good paid alternative is Citrix. I run a Horizon deployment and would love to get from under their thumb... Full vm clients, not RDP apps, over a cluster of servers.

maybe Apache Guacamole™

 

[vxspiritxv]

maybe Apache Guacamole™

That can handle part of it, but we use 'golden images' and recompose when there are updates & software deployments. That could prob be scripted but linking all the vms to users every 'recompose' could be an issue. Still its an idea I will look into as this is the first I'm seeing of this software. Thanks.

 

[zachj]

Take a look at Kasm container streaming.

it’s significantly less mature/capable compared to horizon but in my opinion it’s a lot more capable than something like guacamole.

not sure what to tell you if you’re looking for windows vdi; you’re probably looking at something homebrew.

parsec is good but is all about the streaming; it won’t do squat for your golden image management.

 

[marcoi]

any idea if this would have an impact on VMUG?

 

[zachj]

any idea if this would have an impact on VMUG?

As of today no impact but we shall see what the future holds.

I’d suggest getting vmug while you can.

I don’t see a ton of reason for Broadcom to shoot the community in the foot, but at the same time something tells me uptake on vmug is about to drop dramatically—who is going to learn or maintain VMware skills if they see it dying over the next few years?—and Broadcom certainly *will* kill an unpopular program.