[remir]

*Along with the termination of perpetual licensing, Broadcom has also decided to discontinue the Free ESXi Hypervisor, marking it as EOGA (End of General Availability).

Regrettably, there is currently no substitute product offered.*

You can feel that the employee that wrote this knows this is a sinking ship.

[wannacboatmovie]

> Regrettably, there is currently no substitute product offered.

Not quite.

Microsoft gives away Hyper-V Server for free, no license key needed. It is not time limited or crippled in any way.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-...

It runs in Server Core mode and the learning curve is much steeper outside an AD domain or for non-Windows turbonerds; but once set up properly it is extremely powerful and I prefer it over VMware. Linux support for Hyper-V is built-in and outstanding.

[JackSlateur]

Well, obviously, there is "currently no substitude product offered unless you are willing to move to something else"

In which case, of course, Proxmox is there since years. So why would you encrap yourself with hyper-v and postpone the show for only a couple of years when you could implement a robust solution ?

[Aleklart]

wdym not crippled and powerful? it was always a literal cripleware that not only lacks of basic VM flexibility (usb/devices passthru etc) and cant run any guest except windows and linux, but also hard to mange due to lack of basic cli / gui. It has no advanced features that were added for datacenter edition back in 2016 and in fact pretty much dead as windows server itself

microsoft virtualization is long stuck in the past and forgotten, iykwim

if you need something more or less sane luke esxi, proxmox or even xen are way to go.

[my123]

Hyper-V Server stops at the 2019 release - post 2029 it's dead (no Hyper-V Server 2022)

[NBJack]

*for now

[sokoloff]

There is no substitute product offered by Broadcom.

There are several substitute products, Proxmox being a common one.