Escaping VMware’s clutches will cost you

Gartner warns

According to a new assessment by Gartner, enterprises considering moving away from VMware due to Broadcom’s changes should brace themselves for a lengthy, costly, and complex project.

 The “Estimating a Large-Scale VMware Migration” report claims that migrations could take 18 to 48 months and cost $300 to $3,000 per virtual machine.

For an organisation running over 2,000 virtual machines across at least 100 servers, the initial scoping will require seven to ten…