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Surprised VMware is still around, with all the nice open source stuff and cloud. Hearing VMware is like hearing about Windows 95.
Is the nice non-cloud open source stuff reasonable for enterprise needs? My workplace needs to host a large number of virtual machines, and historical reasons plus various regulations make it easier for us to do that in a datacenter, not on the cloud.
VMware meets our needs, and it definitely doesn't run or look like a product past its prime, so I'm interested in any of these non-cloud open source alternatives.
Eventually we may move to cloud, but we haven't been able to find any significant increase in functionality to justify the work for that move.
I'm here in the same boat. OpenStack and other options are out there, but in smaller shops it's not viable to dedicate a whole team to them.
VMware is the standard that consultants are familiar with. Support has been excellent in my experience. Integrations exist with many enterprise systems. It's a no brainer for many executives when forced to run on prem services.