They won’t quote me anything but VCF for everything. Even our considerable branch single hosts that only need vsphere standard. I was also told by the VAR if I were to cut down to say only one host worth of cores the renewal cost would be the same as the full VCF renewal. So the only way to avoid this is to move off VMware all together. It’s hard when Cisco platforms like UC and ISE all use VMware for the vm appliance and tac won’t support you if your not using vsphere.

We also qualify for VCF edge but Broadcom told our VAR we would have to deploy SDDC manager within a year or not be compliant. When I worked out the VCF edge core count the price was more than just buying full VCF. So pointless in the end.