VMware renewal hard numbers

Posted by cowprince@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 14 comments

We just had our renewal come up. I know there are other reasons to leave VMware than just cost, not we just aren't in a place to do so right now with acquisitions and other projects. But I hadn't seen any real hard numbers from anyone outside of horror stories of 5 and 10x increases. So was just curious what others were seeing.

We have about 320 cores and we're using the old enterprise plus SKU. We're moving to foundation (which is confusing as hell considering foundation used to be something different).

23 renewal cost was $26,3k USD. 24 foundation renewal is $36,9k USD.

This is for an annual renewal.

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RevolutionaryReview4@reddit

190%+ increase from me, looking to move to other vendors.

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CoRapidX1050000@reddit

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cowprince@reddit (OP)

vSAN user?

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CoRapidX1050000@reddit

Hi u/cowprince , I work for Rapidscale and we can help you with many different clouds solutions (IAAS, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMWare, Citrix, etc.) We have worked with VMWare/Broadcom for many years and I can help answer any questions you may have. Let's chat about your current environment and how Rapidscale can help you.

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Brufar_308@reddit

We have to commit to a 5 year term for our new VCF pricing which works out to around $48 per core so $4k per year for our 84 cores. That core price doubles when you get to 97 cores.

I think this is the only time I’ve ever seen pricing from a vendor that increases with volume. The more cores you have the more you pay per core. Volume increases, rather than volume discounts.

Still waiting on the official quote.

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itishowitisanditbad@reddit

It only goes up, if theres no plan now then is there any plan to create a plan or will you be back in a year with the burnout/explosion post about how you're fucked?

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cowprince@reddit (OP)

We may end up getting further discounted pricing for 3 years most to lock it in to give us plenty of time. Highly likely we'd just go to hyper v. But there's just no room in the project load the remainder of this and next year.

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We were quoted that we'd have gone from from 75k/3 year to 200k/year for VSphere Foundation.

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cowprince@reddit (OP)

We don't use vSAN.

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JMMD7@reddit

That's actually not bad at all. About 115 per core which is less than the MSRP for foundation I believe. We were quoted more than 8 times what we used to pay.