Broadcom announced this week: VMware perpetual licenses (now VMware by Broadcom), it’s over! This decision comes after the finalization of its acquisition in November. Since December 11, it is no longer possible to acquire or renew a perpetual license.
In its desire to simplify the offering, the company will now offer two products: one for VMware Cloud Foundation and the other for VMware vSphere Foundation. Renewals, etc. were discontinued on the same date (subject to regional variations).
VMware Cloud Foundation and vSphere Foundation
Broadcom intends Cloud Foundation to be a hybrid cloud solution for large-scale environments that run critical infrastructure and modern applications. According to the company, the subscription will provide improved support, particularly in terms of solution activation and lifecycle management. It will be offered at half the selling price of the current subscription.
vSphere Foundation will be an enterprise platform for small and medium-sized environments. Broadcom says it will integrate “VMware vSphere” with intelligent operations management to deliver high performance, high availability and high efficiency with visibility and insight.
The company says that vSphere Standard and vSphere Essentials Plus Kit (for virtualizing physical servers in smaller environments) will also remain available.
Broadcom clarifies that previously purchased perpetual licenses can still be used
vSphere Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation will offer vSAN add-ons for storage, ransomware and disaster recovery (DR) services and Aria for application infrastructure. Aria, the application infrastructure. VMware NSX networking and security products will be used in vSphere Foundation, while VMware Private AI, a generative AI platform announced in August, will be available soon.
Broadcom clarifies that previously purchased perpetual licenses can still be used, and currently valid SnS will continue to be provided. However, SnS for products under perpetual license cannot be renewed. To smooth the switch, Broadcom is preparing measures to encourage companies with perpetual licenses to move to a subscription.
“Over the past two years, VMware has undertaken to simplify its portfolio and move from a licensing model to a subscription model to better serve its customers through continuous innovation, faster time to value and predictable investments “, underlines Krish Prasad, general manager of the Cloud Foundation division at Broadcom.
Source: ZDNetJapan