When Broadcom acquired VMware for $2022 billion in 690, it said it would adjust VMware's original service licensing sales model toFull shift to subscription modelIncrease VMware business revenue. However, it is clear that many customers and cooperative distribution channels have complained and even stopped renewing contracts, which has caused Broadcom toAnnounceRestored some previously canceled VMware licensing plans.
The licensing solutions currently being restored for sale include the vSAN storage virtualization solution corresponding to VMware vSphere Foundation, which is licensed for data centers. This solution increases the storage capacity corresponding to each computing core by 2.5 times, or to 250GiB. In addition, vSphere Standard and the previously deregistered vSphere Enterprise Plus solution have also been restored to meet the virtualization needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, and are now available for authorized sales through direct sales or reseller channels.
However, after Broadcom acquired VMware, it canceled the buyout license and reorganized the plan, including the desktop virtualization license vSphere Desktop, as well as vSphere Essentials Kit, vSphere Basic/Advanced and other plans, or the free version of vSphere Hypervisor, vSphere Hypervisor and vCenter Foundation for small businesses, and even vSphere Advanced/Enterprise/Enterprise Plus for large-scale deployment environments are no longer available. There is currently no plan to resume providing them.
Prior to this, Broadcom completely canceled the buyout license sales model and required customers to use the service through two package license subscription methods: VMware Cloud Foundation or VMware vSphere Foundation. As a result, customers had to spend extra money to purchase unnecessary service products, which in turn caused a significant increase in licensing costs. As a result, most customers (mostly small and medium-sized enterprises) no longer renewed their subscriptions and instead turned to alternative solutions provided by third-party companies such as Microsoft.
By resuming the partial licensing sales model, Broadcom said it will provide customers with more usage options, and will also provide flexible price service options through subscription plans based on the number of service computing cores.
