"The move to version 9 is quite a substantial upgrade and you can't get VSphere 9 on a perpetual license because perpetual licences haven't been sold since January 2024."
"VMware underpins a huge amount of an organisation's IT operations. There isn't a longer support life cycle. This is a very rapid change and not just about upgrading vSphere,"
"We launched our offer to provide an alternative to VMware software support two years ago. We thought it was going to be for a brief gap as people moved off perpetual licence"
vSphere 8 reaches end of life in October 2027, requiring migration to vSphere 9 and a move from perpetual licences to Broadcom subscription models. Broadcom raised the minimum per-server licence from 16 cores to 72 cores in 2025 and restructured VMware Cloud Foundation bundles, increasing costs and scope by including network and storage virtualization. Migration involves substantial technical and operational changes because vSphere and VCF underpin broad IT operations, making upgrades non-trivial for business-critical environments. Third-party vendors such as Spinnaker Support offer alternative support for perpetually licensed vSphere installations to help organisations manage the transition.
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