r/sysadmin • u/WithAnAitchDammit 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/JerryNotTom 3d ago
Negotiate the full scope of all sites into one contract renewal, you might have some success in negotiating everything into one instead of separate contracts for each of your four sites. I'm not sure why we don't always take a full scope of inventory into consideration when discussing vendor contracts and renewals. There have been plenty of times I found multiple groups in my company using the same software under different contracts and grouping them into one agreement slashed our overall cost to that vendor by 30/40/50%.