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a lot of our customers run on VMware, and love it.
Well, how much is the pricing?
That part is not well loved... It is a lot more pricey than kvm or xen.
The free version?
the only legal way to use VMWare products as a cloud provider is registered as VMware cloud provider partner ( https://www.vmware.com/id/partners/service-provider.html ), the pricing is a monthly payment based on product usage and some other parameters ( https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudprovider/2019/05/new-vcpp-pricing-model-simplifies-delivering-services.html ). you better ask the aggregators on your area for correct pricing and procedure ( https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/partners/service-providers/vmware-cloud-provider-program-aggregators.pdf ).
just a little bit of advice, don't use this if you want to start as a small provider. The hardware requirements are a bit higher, for example, to install vcenter , vcloud director etc for cloud management will need at least 3 dedicated servers and you cannot use those servers for your customers, VMware will recommend the management servers only used for management software. Your hardware also need to comply with VMware hardware compatibility list( https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php ) so you can't use old servers because most of them are not supported/not compatible. You will need servers that at least compatible with vsphere 6.7 ( vsphere 6.5 end of support in November 2021 ).
You need a pretty decent capital, good knowledge about VMware products ( or hire people to install, configure and manage for you ), and also you need to know the market for your products, it will be better if you already have some prospect client that wants to use your VMware server for hybrid cloud, DR, VDI or move their current workload to you.
Proxmox is a good and free alternative.
Is it powerful enough providing cloud servers? That's the question?
I think price is the key factor here. VMware can get expensive. Make sure you calculate the cost.
Yes, that is I am worried about.
Proxmox is widely used by hostingproviders. For WHMCS there are also modules for integration with Proxmox.
Yes, what can be best that VMware?!
Well, but the pricing seems to be very high!
We love VMware for public clouds, but it’s not cheap.
It's a great product, but I am not sure you get what you pay for. We have some customers running ESXi and they are happy.
proxmox would be a good way to go. We have setup a few proxmox machines for this purpose.