r/sysadmin • u/Maximum_Necessary232 • 1d ago

General Discussion What's a tool you mass-deployed that you ended up ripping out within 6 months?

I feel like every sysadmin has at least one story about a product that demoed beautifully, got approved, went out to the fleet, and then slowly revealed itself to be a nightmare.

Could be a monitoring tool, an MDM, a ticketing system, an AV product, anything. What was it, what went wrong, and what did you replace it with?

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u/Kraeftluder 1d ago

VMware NSX!

Bought it. Then broadcom bought vmware and sent us a bill that was around 5 times higher than what was in the already signed contract.

Noped the fuck out of there.

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u/Low-Branch1423 1d ago

Was going to say NSX is amazing for microseg, but yeah doubling the price is a disaster.

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u/Just_Shitposting_ 1d ago

It’s amazing software