Hello guys

We have been considering moving away from vMware vSphere due to politics of Broadcom and their huge prices (probably they don't give a sh** anymore about small/medium companies). At this moment we have 4 clusters, three clusters are running on vsphere 7 (EOF) and one cluster is running on vsphere 8 (license until 2027 October.)

Cluster which runs on vsphere 8 have 256 cores and other three cluster which is running on vsphere 7 (EOF) have almost 256 cores (bunch of BL460 G9-G10). Active License cluster with vsphere 8 is running with Enterprise VVF (so as i read on reddit in near future or maybe even now broadcom is considering removing VVF entirely and pushing customers to more expensive VCF), we don't use much features of vMware vSphere under VVF and VCF probably is going to be overkill for us as with features and prices as well.

So in near future we are going to add two additional hosts to a cluster where vsphere 8 runs, existing 256 cores + maybe 128 cores (can not tell exactly) so probably licensing only that cluster (not talking to other three clusters) going to be a huge price bump...

Few weeks ago HP approached us and introduced their virtualization platform (HPE VM Essentials/Morpheus)

I started to build a small lab with three nodes to create a cluster, at this moment everything is good, i have not migrated any virtual machines and staff like that, just roaming around it to understand how it works and staff like that.

So did anyone tested HPE VM essentials in their production? Worth moving to it? Our virtual machines are productive, many of them are very important for business (from financial perspective) they are getting money for business...:))

So is it worth it?