28 engineers on Hacker News describe using VMware first-hand: 5 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“First we got VMware because systems were getting larger than the load we could push onto them. Then we got Hyper-V because it was free and VMWare was getting needy and expensive.”
regret · production · minkles · 2024-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have been using vmware since version 3 or 4, our entire team is almost exclusively training on vmware”
endorse · production · phpisthebest · 2023-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Literally zero issues, even clipboards are shared between host windows and guest linux mint.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · sergiotapia · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated to them and were very happy with the VMware infra they provided.”
endorse · production · lillecarl · 2020-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At my workplace we run VMware over NFS served by Netapp clusters. It's very stable, performs well, is easy to manage”
endorse · production · chousuke · 2019-05-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it runs RHEL in VMWare without much difficulty.”
endorse · production · Jtsummers · 2016-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“however I dislike vmware more and more. vcenter is just unusable (flash) and consumes a shitload of memory.”
regret · production · merb · 2015-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Former VMware service provider here. We switched about 1,000 VMs from VMware to Proxmox VE a couple years back”
neutral · production · jusims · 2025-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“replace half a dozen VMs that were "too cheap to meter" on VMware!”
neutral · production · jiggawatts · 2025-08-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“likely to set the entire VMware stack on hold for now.”
neutral · production · jmaker · 2023-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As a freelance developer I would run vmware with a dedicated partition for the VM.”
neutral · production · P5fRxh5kUvp2th · 2022-08-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“an Ubuntu machine with up-to-date guest tools for the version of VMWare we use”
neutral · production · manicdee · 2021-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“~5000 VMs out of about 50000, mostly on VMWare.”
neutral · production · Spooky23 · 2021-01-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“much of the application backend in VMware instances running on "mainframe-grade" servers”
neutral · production · rkagerer · 2020-08-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We are migrating our on-prem from VMware to OpenStack”
neutral · production · tyldum · 2020-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after 10 years of on-premise deployments, VM Ware, SQL Clusters, web.config, IIS, ARR”
neutral · production · 10 yr · mcs_ · 2018-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have dotfiles with a "install-docker" and "install-vmware" aliases that installs it whenever I need it”
neutral · personal · pknopf · 2018-02-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“and some vmware virtual for sdn type stuff.”
neutral · production · TimMeade · 2016-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We are using docker with docker compose on a legacy vmware stack in a corporate environment.”
neutral · production · flavioaiello · 2016-06-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“use standard forensics tools + granular vmware snapshots to produce diffs”
neutral · personal · ghuntley · 2015-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“give it a go with ~ 80 VMware VMs and a few bare metals boxes”
neutral · production · jlawer · 2015-05-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As a Windows/VMWare/Exchange/Cisco admin, this is all completely foreign to me.”
neutral · production · halfcat · 2015-04-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In a previous environment of mine, we ran dual socket, 4-way CPUs. ... Our VMs appeared slow, especially on our 4-way systems.”
neutral · production · ckozlowski · 2014-04-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“on our Dev systems we run KVM on our osx laptops nested in a vmware vm.”
neutral · personal · necro · 2013-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run on 6 server vmware setup hooked up to a hitachi SAN on which we rent storage space”
neutral · production · btb · 2012-03-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use VMware and VirtualBox to keep versioned installs of operating systems and toolchains.”
neutral · production · mrmekon · 2011-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“since we run VmWare Infrastructure, have a separate filesystem for each version of the app”
neutral · production · CyberFonic · 2011-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's great for everything _except_ browser testing in VMWare. The 2GB of RAM just doesn't cut it when I need to fire up Windows”
neutral · production · santry · 2010-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?