Broadcom has increased VMware licensing by 200-500%. Perpetual licenses are gone. HyperSDK gives you a proven, risk-managed path to KVM -- 350 VMs migrated in 6 weeks.
vSphere licenses now $5K-15K per socket, vCenter $6K-10K, vSAN $2K-8K per socket, NSX $4K-12K per socket. Perpetual licenses are gone.
Must buy entire suites even when you only need vSphere. Paying for features you never use.
Proprietary formats and API changes make it harder to leave. The longer you wait, the harder the exit.
These are real numbers from real customers. Broadcom forced 3-year minimum commitments on every renewal.
315% increase on a single renewal. This is not an outlier -- it is the new normal for VMware customers.
500-VM enterprise under VMware Cloud Foundation. Previously $350K/yr -- a cost increase that broke annual budgets overnight.
Small businesses told to meet a $100K minimum order or "find a different vendor." Broadcom does not want your business.
Per-core licensing with a 16-core minimum per socket. Even old servers with 8 cores pay for 16. That is a 60% increase for legacy hardware.
Real numbers from a 350-VM Fortune 500 migration. 99.8% first-boot success rate. 70% average TCO reduction across all customer deployments.
"We saved $1.2M annually by migrating 350 VMs to KVM. The 99.8% first-boot success rate meant minimal disruption."
-- VP Infrastructure, Fortune 500 Financial Services
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