We recently had a meeting with our new (as in 4th in a year) rep. They let us know ROBO licensing is moving away from the VM Pack method it is now to per socket licensing. Minimum of 16 core per socket purchase, and you can’t stretch a license across multiple cores.
We about blew a gasket when we were told this. It is going to make our ROBO license jump from about $2K up to $30K PER YEAR. We were told changes to Ent+ are coming too, but details were not known. We are in the process of looking at how moving to another option would look like. Either Hyper-V or Nutanix AHV.
I guess we can see how Broadcom is making their money back. By screwing over their customers.
It’s like they don’t want anyone to use the product. And just bleed the customers that can’t quickly migrate to something else.
Insane
We moved to promox, and never looking back. Thanks Broadcom.
The is pretty much Broadcom’s MO with purchases like this. Jack up prices to get rid of small customers, milk the huge customers for all they can, don’t spend money on further development.
We saw the writing on the wall with the purchase, got the ball rolling and now are almost done expunging all VMware from our environment. Just in time it seems.
Definitely look into Nutanix AHV, but I’d definitely recommend 3 node over two node ROBO. Personally I like NX hardware but it’s all fine.
The only downside I’ve encountered is VM affinity lacks compared to VMware.