IBM stopped offering VMWare a year ago which prob makes impact small and this one getting little notice in most of the news outlets -
https://www.theregister.com/virtualization/2026/10/08/ibm-offloads-hundreds-of-its-cloudy-vmware-customers/5301849
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@jx According to Google, Red Hat developed and shipped a highly automated tool called the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV), which is designed explicitly to move VMware vSphere virtual machines onto Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
@OP whatever happened to the plans that RedHat was going to develop a migration tool to move VMWARE instances to OpenShit ? Did that crash and burn ? Sounds like something that Matt Loathsome would like to brag about more on his calls to action. Broadcom came in to sc--w everyone who used VMWARE and burn VMWARE to the ground.
In my understanding this is because Broadcom made changes to the licensing and is ja--ing up the prices, while disallowing many of the resellers to offer VMWare any longer.
would be happy to see VMware disappear