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Post: "People who left VMWare, what did you end up going with?"

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RedditSep 25, 2026By u/jpirog

r/sysadmin

People who left VMWare, what did you end up going with?

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Our renewal is coming up soon, and we're looking into options. We're technically a corporation, but overall not that large. ~400 employees. 40-50 VMs total across all locations. What did you all end up going with? Pros/Cons?

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  • [comment u/Mr_Fourteen] Nutanix. Overall it's very clean. Offered a lot of functionality we were looking for, and some new stuff that we've adopted. It's not as well polished as vmware though.

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  • “Proxmox”

    u/SnooTigers982475 points · Sep 25, 2026View

  • “AWS and Promox The migration cost multiples more than anticipated, and they didn’t forecast for so many issues. No longer with the client but when I left senior leadership was finding out AWS doesn’t care if your upset”

    u/goatsinhats193 points · Sep 25, 2026View

  • “Went from VMware to Hyper V. Only three hosts. It was beyond easy since we have Veeam for backups.”

    u/DeadStockWalking152 points · Sep 25, 2026View

  • “Nutanix. Overall it's very clean. Offered a lot of functionality we were looking for, and some new stuff that we've adopted. It's not as well polished as vmware though.”

    u/Mr_Fourteen104 points · Sep 25, 2026View

  • “HyperV”

    u/ShoulderRoutine696493 points · Sep 25, 2026View

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