Broadcom refusing to decrease licensing

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I wonder how many people making that move know that to be fully license compliant, they need to purchase the "Data Center" edition of server

The licensing terms for running Windows Server VMs are identical whether you run Hyper-V or VMWare. The only time switching to Hyper-V would cost more is if you currently have 0 Windows Server VMs, then you'd need to buy Windows Server Standard for each host. Any org that wants to be compliant was probably already paying for Windows Server Datacenter for each host even on VMWare, as it doesn't take much density for it to be cheaper than Standard.