Boradcom is screwing everyone, Hard.
We're lucky as we renewed our Vmware licencing and support last year with Dell for a lump less than VMware direct. for 5 years too.
We've estimated that when we come to renew, based on current pricing estimates that we have gleaned, that we'll be looking at 5x increase.
It's not the per core count I object to, nor the support subscription as we need support anyway.
It's the bundling of stuff we don't need.
We don't need NSX as our networking team like Cisco so we have ACI.
We don't need all the Aria stuff as we have alternatives for that in place.
We just want a bundle that is Enterprise Plus & Vcenter. Broadcom are trying to sell stuff we don't need nor want
We will be looking at hyper-V and other alternatives when the time comes to renew.