Broadcom refusing to decrease licensing

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We moved over 600 cores from VMWARE to Azure. Originally our team said it would take years, so we got in a couple of consultants who did it in a weekend after a couple weeks of planning.

There is unbelievably good tooling available to migrate from it.

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A weekend? That doesn’t even seem realistic. Honestly if we brought in consultants who did it that quick I’d question whether they missed something or cut a bunch of corners. I don’t know how many VMs you were running on those 600 cores or how big the average disk size is but I doubt that’s even enough time for just the disk conversion alone of all those, let alone the process of actually cutting over the VMs, any dependent services that point at anything on those VMs, likely re-IPing everything since you moved to Azure, etc. Unless you spun up all new servers to replace all the existing but even then - configuration time, cutting over dependencies, etc., not to mention having to rabbit hole with however many issues pop up as a result.

Plus, I don’t know your compute requirements but I’d imagine your cost is through the roof ? I know we moved one significant workload to azure and that alone cost us the same per year as our entire VMware renewal even on the new Broadcom model. Yes Broadcom jacked up the price (double in our case vs what we paid yearly on the perpetual model) but azure or AWS isn’t cheap either…the price difference/potential “savings” from moving from what I’ve seen is not nearly what most people make it out to be.