ATLANTA – Users of software from the company formerly known as VMware at Red Hat Summit this week recounted their experiences migrating to OpenShift Virtualization in the wake of skyrocketing license costs.
OpenShift Virtualization, based on the open source KubeVirt project, allows traditional VM workloads to be managed by the Kubernetes control plane alongside Linux containers. The project started in 2017 and was integrated into OpenShift in 2018, but Red Hat began beefing up its features in 2021. In late 2024 and early 2025, the vendor expanded the product’s roadmap even more aggressively. This latest surge in development came in the wake of widespread customer dissatisfaction with changes to Broadcom’s licensing and pricing for VMware products following the close of its $61 billion acquisition in late 2023.
“We had a renewal come up in January 2025 — cost was obviously a concern. I’m sure everybody’s aware of that,” said Steven Organiscak, director of information…
