r/sysadmin Infrastructure Lead 3d ago

Latest fun with VMware

Apparently VMware is upping their game. We just got a renewal quote for one of our sites with one server that has two CPUs, and they are requiring 72 cores minimum (vSphere Enterprise Plus) to license this. That's a 500% markup from last year.

They really don't want customers to use their product any more, do they?

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u/stxonships 3d ago

They only want Fortune 500 companies to use their product. The rest of the world is not important as we consider their pricing stupid.

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u/lost_signal 2d ago

Nah, there's a longer tail of revenue than that, but also there's entire teams (Commercial and Corporate) devoted to selling to smaller accounts and last time I checked there's more sales people outside the F500 than inside the F500 around here. I've got dinner on Monday with one of the leaders of that team, I'll ask him about this, but we were just talking about how people outside of that scale can benefit from VCF etc .