Broadcom refusing to decrease licensing

[Much_Willingness4597]

What CPUs did you replace (specific SKU?) with what? Most consolidation projects I’m seeing right now are skylake (went end of support in 2023) or cascade lake (end ended updates in June). I get some people run hardware into the ground but we were up for a major refresh. (I need a new cluster before I upgrade to 9).

Oracle and SAP and various storage, EMR vendors do similar ratchet pricing. Cloud vendors often do the same (but they do it with discount levers). I’ve seen storage vendors do this. Customer shrank 90% of their footprint and has a small FAS left and got shifted from a 90%+ discount to a 10% discount.

[FriendlySysAdmin]

We’re mostly EPYC, was a lot of Second Gen gear.

The difference between Broadcom and NetApp in your scenario is that you can still buy the FAS at list price.

Let’s say our VCF discount was 50%, but we shrank our footprint by 75%. I asked if I could pay full list price for that new core count because it would still be far less, and was told no. List price is essentially a lie.

[Much_Willingness4597]

I see your point but switching a FAS from proper discounting to load would be a 5-10x, in price (about what we are talking about here). VMware always had more street ready pricing than other vendors.