"Broadcom has withdrawn VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) from the market in parts of the EMEA region, the company told The Register. Customers should check with their local dealer to see if the product is still available. One affected organization reported that this would increase its annual costs tenfold. The American chip manufacturer confirmed to The Register that VVF is no longer available in some EMEA countries, but is still available in most."
"An anonymous customer told The Register that their hardware park has thousands of compute cores. Without affordable options, the annual VMware expenditure would skyrocket from approximately $130,000 to $1.3 million. 'We're currently looking to jump ship to either Microsoft's Hyper-V or Nutanix, as we can't eat (that) increase,' said the customer. VVF bundles compute, storage, and network virtualization with a platform for containers. The product is particularly useful for hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid clouds, but offers fewer options than VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)."
"That private cloud suite is much more comprehensive and expensive. It is Broadcom's flagship product and, since the company's acquisition of VMware at the end of 2023, has been designed for increasingly larger organizations. Smaller parties that still run VMware workloads are therefore in a tight spot and must find an alternative (where possible). New options around Private AI and Network Security, combined with the need for sovereign clouds, are driving increased demand."
VVF has been pulled from sale in parts of the EMEA region while remaining available in most other areas, and customers must check regional availability with sales reps or partners. Some organizations report potential tenfold increases in annual VMware costs without affordable VVF options, prompting consideration of migrations to Hyper-V or Nutanix. VVF bundles compute, storage, network virtualization and a container platform and suits hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid clouds but offers fewer features than VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). VCF is broader and pricier, targeted at larger organizations, while vSphere Standard remains available as a lower-cost option.
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