Comments on: VMware End of Availability on Many VMware vSphere Editions

By: Greg Carson

Greg Carson — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:26:29 +0000

The new cost is insane for us
-we had 5 ESXi hosts
–3 of the ESXi hosts were for “production” and other 2 were for DR
—we had 2 Essentials plus licenses to cover our hosts

Last year we paid around 2k, for our VMware license renew. With the new licensing, our VMware cost is 30k a year. We have not renewed, as I didn’t budget for this amount. I used to love VMware, but looking into alternatives….

By: IGnatius T Foobar

IGnatius T Foobar — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 16:39:55 +0000

If it is Broadcom’s intention to pick the bones of VMware clean, they will then sell the husk off to Attachmate, where it will spend its afterlife alongside Novell Netware and other has-beens.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 06:40:57 +0000

@mack it’s not about having to renew more often, it’s about the renewal cost especially if you used essentials.
You’ll now be forced into essentials plus or vsphere standard, whichever works out cheaper in each use case.
The price is also per core with a 16 core per socket minimum.
So if you have 3 hosts on essentials you’ll now need to pay for 16 cores per host.
Something like $1500 a year.
I think essentials plus is a 96 core kit so that’s even more. Crazy.
So no, not just renewing more often, renewing at 10x the cost.

By: Bajda

Bajda — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:16:02 +0000

A lot of people recommends Proxmox – I was wondering if it supports similar level of granular RACI, backup sw integration and cross-cluster VM migrations like vSphere?

By: Peter Franks

Peter Franks — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 01:57:24 +0000

Hello!
How, if at all, does this affect the free ESXi (I’m not sure but I think it is called VMware vSphere Hypervisor 8) many of us run at home?

By: spuwho

spuwho — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:51:59 +0000

Rumor has it one large company which uses VMWare is getting the shake down already on licensing. Like many millions of dollars annually.