Broadcom has withdrawn VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) from the market in parts of the EMEA region, the company told The Register. Customers should check with their local dealer to see if the product is still available. One affected organization reported that this would increase its annual costs tenfold.
The American chip manufacturer confirmed to The Register that VVF is no longer available in some EMEA countries, but is still available in most. “Customers will have to reach out to sales reps or partners to determine availability of a given product in their region,” said a spokesperson. The changes were implemented recently.
An anonymous customer told The Register that their hardware park has thousands of compute cores. Without affordable options, the annual VMware expenditure would skyrocket from approximately $130,000 to $1.3 million. “We’re currently looking to jump ship to either Microsoft’s Hyper-V or Nutanix, as we can’t eat (that)…
