{"id":59811,"date":"2024-02-13T17:27:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=48dc7585c3aeae9a047e1d47bf92f384"},"modified":"2024-02-13T17:27:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:27:40","slug":"broadcom-owned-vmware-kills-the-free-version-of-esxi-virtualization-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59811","title":{"rendered":"Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=2003094\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Are... are they trying to speedrun killing their acquired company?  To out-Oracle Oracle?\nThey've fucked with the very large customers.  They've fucked with the small customers.  They've fucked with the hobbyists. \nHopefully the Xen and KVM tooling will benefit from the exodus.<\/div><div>\n<figure>\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/vsphere-800x500.png\" alt=\"Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n      <p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/vsphere.png\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: VMware)<\/p>  <\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div><a name=\"page-1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Since Broadcom's $61 billion acquisition of VMware closed in November 2023, Broadcom has been charging ahead with major changes to the company's personnel and products. In December, Broadcom <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/12\/broadcom-cuts-at-least-2800-vmware-jobs-following-69-billion-acquisition\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">began laying off thousands of employees<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/12\/broadcom-ends-vmware-perpetual-license-sales-testing-customers-and-partners\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stopped selling perpetually licensed versions of VMware products<\/a>, pushing its customers toward more stable and lucrative software subscriptions instead. In January, it <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2024\/01\/broadcom-killing-vmware-partner-program-could-disrupt-thousands-of-businesses\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ended its partner programs<\/a>, potentially disrupting sales and service for many users of its products.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Broadcom is making a change that is smaller in scale but possibly more relevant for home users of its products: The free version of VMware's vSphere Hypervisor, also known as ESXi, <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/2107518\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is being discontinued<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>ESXi is what is known as a \"bare-metal hypervisor,\" lightweight software that runs directly on hardware without requiring a separate operating system layer in between. ESXi allows you to split a PC's physical resources (CPUs and CPU cores, RAM, storage, networking components, and so on) among multiple virtual machines. ESXi also supports passthrough for PCI, SATA, and USB accessories, allowing guest operating systems direct access to components like graphics cards and hard drives.<\/p><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=2003094#p3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read 2 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=2003094&amp;comments=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: VMware)  <\/p>\n<p>Since Broadcom&#8217;s $61 billion acquisition of VMware clos&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59811\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}