"There is no technical reason for VMware users to adopt a rival hypervisor, and that no vendor offers a one-for-one replacement for the virtualization pioneer's flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) suite."
"Delory said Broadcom's licensing policies, which see it only sell VCF, mean VMware users' licensing bills typically rise by 300 to 400 percent. Broadcom argues that the full-stack private clouds VCF makes it possible to build are so efficient that VCF quickly pays for itself."
"Delory said the best alternatives to VMware are the public cloud, or HCI vendors - these days that acronym denotes both hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid cloud infrastructure. The analyst warned"
"Those who do, he warned, will end up with more complex infrastructure for two reasons. One is that few organizations will be able to quit VMware entirely, as they run applications with dependencies that aren't easy or economical to unwind. Reducing or eliminating a VMware rig therefore means adopting multiple replacements, which creates more infrastructure to manage and therefore extra complexity."
VMware users have no technical reason to adopt a rival hypervisor, and no vendor provides a one-for-one replacement for VMware Cloud Foundation. Broadcom licensing policies that sell VMware Cloud Foundation only can raise VMware licensing bills by about 300 to 400 percent. Broadcom claims VMware Cloud Foundation enables efficient full-stack private clouds that pay for themselves quickly. For organizations considering reducing VMware footprints or leaving VMware, application modernization is suggested as a better use of time. Moving off VMware can increase infrastructure complexity because applications often depend on components that are difficult to unwind, requiring multiple replacements. Efficiency and VM density are also cited as unmatched, so alternatives may require more hardware. Public cloud and HCI vendors are presented as best alternatives.
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