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   Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 03:34:40 JST Kevin Beaumont

   I deleted my toot about Broadcom abandoning VMware ESXi last month as I got fed up of reply guys explaining to me it couldn’t possibly happen.. but anyway, it has happened. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2107518?lang=en_US

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     Rasmus Brøgger (rbrogger@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 03:54:36 JST Rasmus Brøgger

     @GossiTheDog I fear 2 years may be verging on optimistic

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     ryebread8403 (ryebread8403@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 04:29:31 JST ryebread8403

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     @GossiTheDog I'm new to the data center side of the house. If this is a pattern with Broadcom, what's the next bad news we expect?

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     Rachel (rachel@transitory.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 07:21:41 JST Rachel

     @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social My understanding is that Broadcom doesn't care the impact to customers, unless you're in their top X of customers (and then they care about how to squeeze them harder), and the difference in scale between those top X and average shops is massive. But that is just based on other posts/vibes.
     
     But besides that, seriously asking here, what is the alternative for on-prem infra? XCP-ng? I'd be laughed out of the room if I suggested Proxmox or OpenStack, but I really don't know what the landscape looks like these days because VMWare has such a stranglehold in the space.