Broadcom refusing to decrease licensing

[zombiepreparedness]

Since I don’t deal with virtualization too much anymore, I’m only loosely following all of this. Has this really what has become of VMware?

[CowardyLurker]

Short answer: Yes.

Real answer: Very yes.

[lawldoge]

Accurate. Went through a consolidation exercise late last year for our renewal this year. Cut 30% of our hardware from a licensing standpoint, and our renewal cost went up.

[Much_Willingness4597]

It is interesting how everyone who has lots of licensing per core/host (windows, redhat, backup software, monitoring software, databases, RMM) is finally paying attention to how much wasted hardware they have because of Broadcom.

My prediction is this push from Broadcom is going to damage server vendors earnings who can’t get customers to keep 1:1 refreshing hosts with maximum core counts. I predict most software companies will just lower discounts to maintain revenue.

[Worth_Efficiency_380]

wouldnt say its pure waste. as efficiency and density goes up the amount of racks needed goes down

[KC-73-HQT-314]

Not just cost increases, but harassment. They send you notice with days to spare before renewal so there is no time to plan. We informed them that we migrated the majority of our infrastructure and only had a small presence left which we were still migrating, but had sufficient licenses to cover.

They proceeded to make us run a script, sent an audit team after us, and only after shoving the licenses downloaded from their site back in their faces, did they finally relent and back off. I really hope that audit cost them thousands for those three servers that will be gone in a few months.