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It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register
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My VPS provider also migrated away from VMWare - got an email saying VMs would be down temporarily during the move, and the main website no longer contains any references to the virtualization tech. I miss my /64 IPV6 😭 but i'll happily give that up if it means Broadcom's dumpster fire comes crashing down as big customers pull the plug and migrate
Would guess that they probably migrated to proxmox
I know several large companies looking to Microsoft, Xen, and Proxmox. Though the smart ones are more interested in the open source solutions to avoid future rug-pulls.
Proxmox is open source
So is Xen.
I thought Xen and OpenVZ etc. became obsolete with KVM? But it's probably for the best that Xen is still used.
Xen is a type 1 hypervisor, KVM is a type 2 hypervisor
It runs on the bare metal itself as dom0
Doh I meant LXC 🤦 instead of KVM.
LXC is for containers, rather than virtual machines
I was just saying “obsolete” isn’t a good description; All three still have uses depending on your goals
LXC is probably better for most people, and I think Podman is one of the best rootless container options
Yes...? All are except Microsoft, which is why most companies I work with aren't looking that way.
Xen looks great for VPS stuff, and seemed to have good support for vGPUs. That's what I'd choose as a provider. I wish I used it at home but I ended up going with good ol' Linux KVM for USB and PCI support.
Nutanix is another one.