Broadcom is facing backlash and active customer migrations away from VMware over restrictive licensing tiers and pricing terms.

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        "excerpt": "128 core limit? That’s cool, but that’s what.. four to eight hosts? And also being limited to “new” customers and needing authorization for existing customers (basically like VVF is today), which means nobody will get it.\n\n I’ve got to say, I’m disappointed but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.",
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        "excerpt": "So can I buy 6 of these for 768 cores? They still cant get me a VVF quote, only VCF. Saying after Nov 2 they should be able to get it. I mean come on, just break out the calculator, 768 core times xxxx, give it to the reseller, do your markup and then get it to me.\n\n EDIT:\n\n Packages per customer: Only one package is possible per end customer.",
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        "excerpt": "Unsure of the benefit here..\n\n You cannot buy a second package. If you have more than 128 cores, you need a different edition, VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).",
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    "post_text": "Seems the cat is out of the box. Orderable from November 2nd:\n\nhttps://www.software-express.de/hersteller/vmware/vsphere/express/\n\nSeeing it advertised without Memory Tiering is truly cursed.Given the (current) memory prices, this would have been the only reason to stay for us, clinging to our Standard licenses.Not even talking about SR-IOV missing again.",
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