Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
Alot of the features you pay extra for in VMware have been available in KVM/Linux for quite a while now. Perhaps the single major downside of KVM is that it requires a bit more technical know-how than VMware to deploy effectively.
KVM is just another hypervisor. Its fully supported by Red Hat and in my own testing I was able to run double as many VMs on KVM as I was able to on Citrix XenServer and ESX4. So from my own usage it is my opinion that KVM will be a very good choice for IT Professions (not management wanting...
I learn linux by putting an old pc together and doing one project after another from Howtoforge.com. Very easy guides to follow and as you do them you will become familiar with most of the common linux server apps.
VMWARE my have all the features in a pretty windows GUI but its performance still blows. KVM will take some of the spotlight for the REAL professional IT out there. This is my opinion from my experience and my differ for others.