# Broadcom/VMware Licensing While the changes stirred up consternation, they also provide an opportunity for organizations to assess their current environments, optimize their costs, and plot a strategy forward that refocuses their efforts on a business-centric trajectory. Source: https://expedient.com/solutions/challenge/broadcom-vmware-licensing/ # Broadcom/VMware Licensing ## Turn Change into Opportunity The acquisition of VMware by Broadcom sent seismic waves throughout the industry. It changed the way one of the most popular infrastructure platforms on the planet was licensed, while simultaneously increasing cloud capabilities and costs for many. While the changes stirred up consternation, they also provide an opportunity for organizations to assess their current environments, optimize their costs, and plot a strategy forward that refocuses their efforts on a business-centric outcomes. ![]() Average price increase for VMware customers [Avoid the Increase](#numbers-graph) ![Expedient Named Nutanix’s Americas Service Provider of the Year for 2025](https://res.cloudinary.com/dvlpy3tua/image/upload/fl_sanitize/uploads/EXP_Broadcom_BG_LEFT.svg) ![Expedient Named Nutanix’s Americas Service Provider of the Year for 2025](https://res.cloudinary.com/dvlpy3tua/image/upload/fl_sanitize/uploads/EXP_Broadcom_BG_RIGHT.svg) ## VMware's Top Pick for Managed VCF As Broadcom’s VCF as a Service Partner of the Year for the Americas, it’s official: Expedient is the clear choice for faster time to value, operational simplicity, and built-in security, backed by two decades of deep VMware expertise, a 100% service SLA, 24x7x365 expert support, and a predictable monthly cost. [Learn More](/knowledgebase/blog/2025-05-23-vmwares-top-pick-for-managed-vcf-2025/) ![VMware's Top Pick for Managed VCF of the Year for 2025](https://res.cloudinary.com/dvlpy3tua/image/upload/fl_sanitize/uploads/EXP__BROADCOM_POTY_BADGE.svg) ## You Have Options. ### Do Nothing, Budget for the Increase ### Consider a Cloud Service Provider ![VMware Broadcom Pinnacle Partner](https://res.cloudinary.com/dvlpy3tua/image/upload/fl_sanitize/uploads/BROADCOM_-_PINNACLE_PARTNER.png) ### Do Nothing, Budget for the Increase The least disruptive of the options — no changes to your environment or team’s skill set required — comes at a cost. Specifically, the double- or even triple-digit price increase that many organizations have received in their renewal notices. ### Consider a Cloud Service Provider ![VMware Broadcom Pinnacle Partner](https://res.cloudinary.com/dvlpy3tua/image/upload/fl_sanitize/uploads/BROADCOM_-_PINNACLE_PARTNER.png) The option with the most technology upside and lowest cost increase. We are a [VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) Pinnacle partner](/about/press/2024-03-25-expedient-achieves-vmware-cloud-service-provider-pinnacle-status-in-the-broadcom-advantage-partner-program/) with proven expertise in managing and optimizing VMware environments and the highest level of discounts offered. ### Find an Alternative Hypervisor ### Go All-In on the Hyperscale ### Find an Alternative Hypervisor Nutanix, KVM, or a number of other alternatives are available to migrate your workloads to. Considerations include application compatibility and validation, staff retraining, and potential migration challenges. ### Go All-In on the Hyperscale Take the opportunity to refactor and modernize everything. Then migrate to a hyperscale cloud. [Not the choice we’d recommend](/why-expedient/cloud-different/), as it’s expensive, resource-intense, and will take on average the better part of the next 5+ years. ## Delivering the Outcomes You Demand With over [20 years of experience and 1,500 clients across size and industry](/about/overview/), we have the strategic and technical capabilities that organizations need to navigate through uncertainty and challenges. We’ve had countless conversations with organizations and have come up with these 4 scenarios that we come across most often and the indicative costs for a variety of scenarios. Mileage always varies, based on variables for each specific deployment scenario. We have solutioned all scenarios on VMware VCF and on Nutanix. In all cases deploying on Expedient means a savings of over 40% to close to 60%. And the annualized savings for the scenarios range from $64,000 to $385,000! ## Annualized Savings ![Broadcom VMware numbers chart](https://res.cloudinary.com/dvlpy3tua/image/upload/fl_sanitize/uploads/VMWARE_TABLE.svg) ![Numbers chart](https://res.cloudinary.com/dvlpy3tua/image/upload/fl_sanitize/uploads/exp-vmware-graph-v2.svg) ## Minimize the Impact While most VMware customers are seeing cost increases of 2-6x, Expedient has kept prices low across our public cloud and private clouds, and kept prices level for disaster recovery. \<5% Average price increase for [Expedient Enterprise Cloud](/services/cloud/) clients 17% Average price increase for [Expedient Private Cloud](/services/private-cloud/) clients 0% Price increase for clients on [Expedient Push Button Disaster Recovery](/services/disaster-recovery/) ## Experts at Work Having successfully migrated thousands of clients to cloud, our team of architects, engineers, and analysts is on laser-focused IT infrastructure that delivers platform optionality, performance, and cost savings – all of which have become even more important in the wake of the changes to VMware licensing. Our experience is crucial in that it allows us to work with environments of all shapes and sizes and find efficiencies within our platforms most organizations are unable to optimize for. Additionally, our team includes VMware Certified Design Experts — an elite community of only 300 in the world who have earned that distinction. ![People at Expedient](https://res.cloudinary.com/dvlpy3tua/image/upload/fl_sanitize/uploads/exp-cloud-collaboration.png) ## What’s Changed? Strategically, Broadcom's goal in acquiring VMware was to diversify and strengthen its portfolio beyond hardware into software, particularly in the cloud computing and enterprise software sectors. Specific changes have led to material cost increases for many. ## Shift from perpetual to subscription licensing - Shift from capex to opex - Access to most recent software versions ## Shift from atomic product pricing to bundles - Portfolio simplification to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)  or VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) bundles - Access to VMware tools and capabilities you didn’t previously have ## Shift from licensing sockets to server cores - Increased expenses - Need for infrastructure reassessment and optimization of your environment ## Know the numbers, know the facts. At Expedient, we have a comprehensive suite of calculators and sizing tools that will deliver insights for specific scenarios you have or are considering. We are a curious bunch, ready to roll up our sleeves and share our expertise, insights, and tooling with you. 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