Enter your environment once and see the estimated annual run-rate and multi-year cost of every realistic option, renewing with Broadcom, staying on VMware through a lower-cost provider, or migrating off entirely, ranked side by side.
Ranked by 3-year total cost of ownership. Savings are vs. renewing with Broadcom.
Per-core subscription (VVS / VVF / VCF) with a 72-core minimum per order. This is the baseline you're trying to beat, the do-nothing cost that keeps climbing at each renewal.
Move your vSphere environment to a managed VMware cloud (VCSP) and pay an all-in per-VM rate that bundles licensing, hardware, and support, typically well below a Broadcom-direct renewal. See providers →
Open-source hypervisor licensed per CPU socket (not per core), so support runs a few hundred dollars per socket per year. Lowest run-rate; conversion effort and Linux skills are the trade-off. Compare →
Capacity-based licensing that bundles the hypervisor, software-defined storage, and support, cheaper than VCF for many, and net-cheaper still if you'd otherwise buy vSAN. Compare →
The hypervisor is effectively free; the cost is Windows Server Datacenter licensing per core (one-time, perpetual). Near-zero incremental cost if you already license it. Compare →
Node-based pricing with a 3-node minimum. Easiest lift-and-shift, but usually the most expensive run-rate, you exit the data center, not the bill. Compare →
A Foretel advisor turns this comparison into actual provider proposals and a renewal-negotiation read, objectively, and at no cost to you.
