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VMware is Out: What Alternatives Are There?

September 09, 2024 • Synextra • Season 1 • Episode 13

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As we say a sad goodbye to VMware, we discuss the realistic hypervisor alternatives for businesses and their pros and cons. Hyper-V, XenServer, and VMware, wait what I thought it was alternatives to Broadcoms latest cash cow!? For better or worse, sticking with the top performer might be your best choice. Unless you want to Migrate to one of the big players in Cloud, Azure and AWS, Microsoft's offering is the more obvious option with infrastructure professionals likely being more familiar with the user interface.
All that and more in this episode of Experts in Polo Shirts with Synextra Consultant Matt Dyson, and Host Michael Clegg.

#VMware #hypervisor #hyper-v #XenServer #publiccloud

0:00 Intro

0:18 Realistic Alternatives to VMware

0:42 VMware

2:36 HyperV

4:19 Xenserver

6:19 Hypervisor Migration Considerations

12:02 Non Hypervisor Alternatives to VMware

12:18 Public Cloud Azure & AWS

14:16 Scalability Advantages

17:44 Security Advantages

19:24 Motivation to Migrate

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