Next VMware customer gone? Rackspace tests migration for 3000 VMs
Rackspace is the next Broadcom customer to complain about the increased license costs for VMware. The company is now testing the migration for 3,000 VMs.
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The American IT service provider Rackspace has migrated parts of its virtual infrastructure from VMware to Private Cloud Director (PCD), which belongs to the cloud provider Platform9. Because Broadcom raised the license fees for VMware significantly, Rackspace tested the move with 50 virtual machines running databases, application servers and software from third-party providers, according to a report in The Register. The company is now considering migrating 3000 VMs to PCD.
Platform9 released PCD last year as a potential alternative to VMware, aiming for a similar feature set. The platform uses the open-source KVM hypervisor, OpenStack and Kubernetes. This allows virtual machines and containers to be hosted, virtual networks to be run and storage to be managed. Furthermore, part of PCD is vJailbreak, which can be used to perform automatic migrations from VMware.
Fortune 500 companies switch from VMware
Migrating from VMware with vJailbreak is less expensive than analysts' estimates of up to $3,000, Platform9 co-founder Madhura Masasky told The Register. Furthermore, PCD has already been used by a Fortune 500 company to migrate 40,000 virtual machines from VMware, she reported. Another Fortune 500 company from India is currently working on a move of the same magnitude. Broadcom had previously also lost other customers, such as the Austrian cloud provider Anexia.
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There are companies willing to change that have strong feelings towards Broadcom. Other companies are more concerned with diversification so that they are not dependent on a single provider that can increase prices tenfold, says Masasky, assessing the situation surrounding VMware. Justin Kuss, application and platform modernization architect at Rackspace, takes a similar position. He believes that companies are now looking at what alternatives there are to VMware. Nevertheless, he emphasizes that there is a partnership with Broadcom and that Rackspace wants to continue to offer VMware hosting.
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