November 22, 2023. This was the day Broadcom announced it acquired VMWare, a virtualization and cloud computing platform.
However, the acquisitions brought along (several) hiccups.
Many employees were laid off, and customers revoked their perpetual licenses. This has led to substantial price increases for existing VMWare customers, forcing them to consider new alternatives. Look at what a Redditor writes:
If you’re in the same boat, we’ve got you covered. Here are seven worthy VMWare competitors that will fill the gap (and probably save you money). Read on.
VMware’s acquisition by Broadcom has resulted in a sea of changes: increased licensing fees, discontinuation of VMware’s partner program, and revocation of perpetual licenses.
Top VMWare alternatives include Virtual Box, Hyper V, Nutanix, Proxmox, Scale Computing, Open Stack, and Red Hat OpenShift.
VMWare and Hyper V offer similar feature sets. Hyper V comes with a Windows Server license, which makes it more cost-effective and easier to use.
Nutanix is ideal for simplifying HCI deployments with scalability and ease of use, while VMware offers a more versatile ecosystem with advanced virtualization and hybrid cloud capabilities.
Again, Proxmox is a simpler and more cost-effective alternative to VMware. Migrating simple, existing VMware environments to Proxmox is easy.
OpenStack and RedHat OpenShift are open-source platforms that are highly flexible and can run most operations.