After sending cease-and-desist letters to VMware users whose support contracts had expired and who subsequently declined to ...

Those who get more out of VMware Cloud Foundation also recognize the added value. Broadcom customers frustrated by the shift ...

The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management has won a legal victory in the latest pushback against Broadcom’s ...

VMware users continue to be unhappy with licensing changes since the virtualization giant was acquired by Broadcom, and are ...

VMware offered a free version of ESXi for years, and it was beloved by home lab operators and vAdmins who needed something to tinker with. But in February 2024, VMware discontinued it on grounds ...

In the wake of widespread customer confusion over a series of license changes announced in December, Broadcom Inc.’s VMware subsidiary is positioning the moves as simplifying its product portfolio a ...

We first need to discuss the licensing for ESXi on ARM. As it is not a production product, it is offered with a 180-day license for evaluation purposes, a considerable upgrade from the usual 60-day ...

Software; virtualization; vmware; Broadcom is discontinuing VMware's free type-1 hypervisor ESXi, too Users of the bare-metal hypervisor will have to migrate to competing products, or get a license ...

Given the prevalence of Java hosted on VMware vSphere, licensing used to be priced based on the number of physical cores of the server hardware. Oracle now sells the Java SE Universal Subscription ...

A customer with five dual-processor servers with 16 cores each (i.e. a total of 160 cores) can continue to license 160 cores. If different vSphere versions are required, the minimum number must be ...