RANT - Serious Eff Broadcom and the new Licensing.

Posted by rune87@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 281 comments

Okay...so we all knew Broadcom was going to destroy VMWare's licensing. I was expecting maybe double....nope...its now 8x the cost for my scenario. We've always used VSphere Essentials + Kit. Met our needs and I spec'd everything on the new servers to stay within the limits. Was like $700 a year. Well....that kit has now been discontinued and replaced by a new program requiring a minimum of 96 cores licensed. That's the absolute bare minimum. And at Govt cost its a little over $5500. I for one will not be paying that extortion cost. Time to go back to Hyper-V.