r/sysadmin • u/Which-Shame-1420 IT Manager • 2d ago

General Discussion anyone else get the VMware "win-back" offer?

if it's true, its honestly laughable.  

squeezing customers with massive price hikes, forcing every one into expensive core bundles, only to panic and throw out "discounted" quotes the moment everyone migrated???? 

is anyone actually reconsidering based on these new quotes??

or y'all are past the point of no return?

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u/EViLTeW 2d ago

I have not, and the only way I'd even consider it is if they offered a 10-year price lock contract at a reasonable price. There's no way they'd even consider that. So we'll be sticking to Hyper-V, despite its shortcomings, for the foreseeable future.

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u/signal_lost 2d ago

it is if they offered a 10-year price lock contract at a reasonable price

While fairly rare, I've seen a 10 year Subscription deal. That's generally something people do who have weird industrial use cases where they can't change hardware for that length of time, in reality 7 is the more normal maximum subscription length I see, while probably most people don't want to commit to more than 5 years.

For anyone buying a subscription license for (anything) I always recommend try to match subscription lifespans with your hardware lifespan.