> Tesco is also dealing with migration challenges related to data security because its new, unnamed virtualization software is incompatible with the Veeam and Zerto products it uses.

What is a VMware alternative, that isn't compatible with backup software? I'm guessing it's not nutanix?

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naturalmovement 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm having flashbacks from the late 90s/ early 00s when your company would hire a "Linux guy" that would force a large scale migration to some open source stack no one heard of, then only later worry about if any existing applications worked.

	▲	nikanj 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Currently in Finland, a major public health provider is moving to chromebooks. By the end of 2026. They won’t even have the test environments ready before Q3 2026. Interesting times.

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Fordec 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've been hearing that HPE are on a push lately with larger enterprises trying to encroach on VMWare during their pricing changes, might be them.

	▲	d3Xt3r 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		HPE's VMWare alternative is Morpheus, and it supports both Veeam and Zerto. So it's probably not them.

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cloudie78 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

OpenShift as an alternative to Tanzu.

OpenShift Virtualisation or whatever it’s called for the virtualisation part of VMWare.

Used to do those migration in a previous life.

	▲	p_l 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The latter is IIRC rebadged KubeVirt

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Flere-Imsaho 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Probably Proxmox. Veeam support is relatively new.

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nick__m 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Proxmox for 40k vm would be surprising also veeam support Proxmox.

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proxysna 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I'd would assume that this is not a monolithic cluster of 40k vm's but at least tens of clusters. Which puts it in the realm of capabilities of Proxmox.

	▲	nick__m 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Before my vacation we (3 colleagues and myself) completedan 8 months long migration (coordination with stakeholders is longer and more complex than migrating a 192TB VM !!!) to 6 proxmox clusters so 20 to 40 clusters for 40k is certainly possible but imo it would be unwieldy.
	▲	beniihana 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I’d guess thousands of clusters. They have over 3k retail stores in the UK, so that could be a 2-3 node cluster in every one. I’ve worked with a few major US grocers on very similar projects (some hardware only refreshes and one VMware to HyperV/Azure Local migration).

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digitalsin 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nutanix has served us well over the last 8 or so years.

	▲	beniihana 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How has pricing been? I’ve heard their renewals can get expensive. Have lots of customer who run it and would echo your same positive review.