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New comment by WokeUp420 in "Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads"

WokeUp420 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:43:34 +0000

Proxmox is good for a home lab but running an enterprise on it is a joke. Good luck with that

New comment by WokeUp420 in "Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads"

WokeUp420 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:42:51 +0000

Agent based requires an insane amount of privileged accounts and I would say fails for 10%+ of the VM population

New comment by WokeUp420 in "Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads"

WokeUp420 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:41:48 +0000

Try doing that to 3,000 production VMs.

New comment by WokeUp420 in "Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads"

WokeUp420 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:41:20 +0000

Dell private cloud lock in would be the death of any company. You don't want to be isolated to one hardware vendor. We've told Dell to kick rocks many times for renewals and would not be able to do that if we were in their Cloud, which requires Dell hardware.

Don't do it

New comment by WokeUp420 in "Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads"

WokeUp420 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:37:28 +0000

Proxmox is amateur hour. No enterprise support

New comment by WokeUp420 in "Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads"

WokeUp420 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:35:50 +0000

I'm in the middle of a massive Azure Local migration and noticed the VDDK was no longer available... Kinda funny because I was just telling a coworker how surprised I was that they offered it. Thankfully I saved off my copy but I have no idea how Microsoft is going to handle this going forward with Azure Migrate. Same issue with SUSE I believe

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WokeUp420 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:19:13 +0000

Skilled trade still isn't paying either.

New comment by WokeUp420 in "VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent"

WokeUp420 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:28:24 +0000

Nonsense. Renting servers is the easiest way to bankrupt your company. Look at all the capacity shortages going on right now. Price will continue to outpace bare metal and controls will get tighter.

Not to mention there are many scenarios where cloud connectivity is not an option.

New comment by WokeUp420 in "VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent"

WokeUp420 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:26:56 +0000

Kroger has moved to SUSE and Azure Local