Virtualization certification

orange81

I was looking at obtaining the VCTA or VCP certs but not sure if this is a good idea after the licensing changes and uncertainty of vmware products. What is your opinion on this and what other virtualization certs would be worth taking?

JDMurray

What are the uncertainties of VMware? I just downloaded VMware Workstation Pro 17, installed it on Windows to replace Player 16, and it runs just fine in non-commercial run-mode. Is there something about Broadcom's commercial licensing that's sus?

itdept

VMware is basically dead. I have VCP 7 and 8 and that will be it for me. I did not bother to renew my vmug membership either. It is good to have the knowledge of VMware and virtualization in general but it is time to move on. Look at the cloud offerings like Azure add AWS. There is plenty of material and pathways to success with those.

powerfool

I started down a rabbit hole wondering why this even happened.  If you look into the significant ownership of all of these companies... it is basically Vanguard/Blackrock.  Not suggesting anything crazy, it just happens.  If you owned [influential] interest in several businesses, you would likely try to have some synergies between them based on your interest.  So, you have all of these companies involved... you get Broadcom to buy up VMware... you try to focus on the most profitable customers... then you forget so much about the rest of the market leading to the success of the product.  It was a dumb move and yep... VMware is dead.

JDMurray

I'm still happily using VMware Workstation 17 Pro for free. I don't see how it's anymore dead than MySQL after being bought by Oracle. 

powerfool

VMware Workstation is a toy compared to their business model.

JDMurray

Yeah, products and business models are definitely apples-n-oranges.