- the core vSphere hypervisor and management software
- Vmware Cloud on AWS which is pretty big on its own, plus other cloudy things like datrium / disaster recovery as a service.
- cybersecurity (carbon black and secure state), which is similar to what Symantec does, will be an interesting overlap
- endpoint management (security for desktops, mobile) which was AirWatch
- management (monitoring & automation) aka. vRealize and Cloud Health
- workspace / single sign on, similar to okta (Workspace ONE)
- virtual desktops (Horizon) which compete with Citrix
- software defined networking (NSX) which competes with F5, Cisco, Juniper etc.
- modern apps (Tanzu) which is largely open source... containers & developer tools & data services & agile consulting, e.g. Spring, Apache Tomcat, RabbitMQ, Greenplum, Wavefront, Bitnami / Kubeapps, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry and Pivotal Labs (now Tanzu Labs)
(Everyone was fired after that season, except for Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo.)
On the one hand, it's pretty cool that VMware has pivoted so successfully over the past 15 years from being solely focused on a hypervisor (or, I suppose in modern terminology, "self-hosted cloud") business that the cloud largely supplanted. On the other hand, it's sad for someone like me, who used Workstation to run VMs at home (I moved to VirtualBox), and have thought at times about spinning up ESXi.
What’s up with this? Did their company steal the name of the tool rsync?
I gave them right of first refusal, etc., and they said my use of "rsync.net" as the name of the company, domain name, etc., was acceptable.
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I joined VMware just after the release of Businessware 2.0 - which I agree was 14 years ago.
The big money maker was vmotion because it allowed datacenters to decouple the server from the underlying hardware. Ever after, the money was in the datacenter products.
For some reason I could not edit my post so I had to reply to my post.
I could probably do a lot of the same thing with Linux itself, but the web interface is so nice, I'm keeping it as long as it continues to be free for home use.
One pretty big one, if you're looking at homelab use, is that Proxmox is just Debian, so it's waaaay more likely to run on crap-tier commodity hardware, whereas VMware has all the usual enterprise-level support commitments and so you're very much on your own if you try to force it to run on hardware that isn't on their official compatibility list.
That was my first (and last) hurdle when wanting to try out ESXi...
I booted up the installer only to be greeted by a "not enough RAM" message. I believe it's 4GB minimum, which my tiny machine had, but ESXi read it as 3.9GB instead of 4.0GB and refused to budge.
Very happy with Proxmox on the other hand! Having access to the underlying Debian is also quite nice if you need to do something that's not supported by the interface.
The ZFS Filesystem is a nice feature
These were what i was thinking of yeah.
Where VMware shines is when you want to virtualize multiple datacenters and manage them all from a single browser window. Getting hundreds of hosts and datastores managed all under one vCenter umbrella all while eliminating single points of failure, while not trivial, is the bread and butter of VMware and it works very well once it's all up and running.
That is hardly true.
The ESXI UI is vastly cleaner and more VM Focused. The network stack is easier to work with, and setting up passthrough is dead easy. A big plus to ESXI is how easy it is to export a VM and move it to another machine. The Export/Import method on Proxmox sucks, and all CLI. Plus there are a lot of premade VMware images out there that spool up in minuets on ESXI, getting them up and running on proxmox is a chore.
Proxmox is not bad if doing everything from scratch in Proxmox, and you don't need to move VMs arount.
Plus don't get me started on lack of a filebrowser on proxmox.
Performance is better with ESXI anyways. Only downside to ESXI is hardware limitations.
Things like Monitoring Platforms, Backup Solutions (veeam), Automation tool kits (powershell), etc.
I like Proxmox, I use it personally, but in its current form I do not see how any medium or large enterprise that has is management tooling around VMWare could just drop in proxmox.
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsph...
Yet OpenShift is making bank. You'd be surprised how much money they make on AWS, Azure, and Google.
Upgrades within major versions are totally painless, one-click affairs.
It is slick, but niche. Incredibly rock solid - in ways K8S is not - and you pay for it.
It is on its way out as a product.
Again, referring to what used to be PCF. Hence why the more modern Tanzu is K8s based.
Unfortunately there’s no real equivalent (OpenShift is not really “it”) on K8s unless you’re assembling several products together with a lot of glue. Which is what everyone does, with varying quality.