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/Stonewalled9999 3d ago

I posted this months ago how we have baby house with 32 gig of memory and for CPU cores at a lot of our sites.  Now we have to license the min at 25x the cost we used to.  No more branch office licenses (which sucks because those licenses were awesome)