Organisations using vSphere 8 have until October 2027 to migrate to vSphere 9 before product support ends, with additional costs needing to be considered beyond the complexity of migrating potentially business-critical IT infrastructure over to a new virtualisation platform.
VMware vSphere 8 was the last version that could be perpetually licensed, which means IT buyers need to move to a Broadcom subscription with vSphere 9. In 2025, Broadcom announced changes to VMware’s per-processor licensing model, which raised the minimum per server licence fee to 72-cores from 16. It also revamped product bundles for VMware Cloud Foundation. All of these hanges are likely to have a big impact on organisations that need to migrate to vSphere 9.
Speaking to Computer Weekly about the challenge vSphere 8 users now face, Martin Biggs, managing director of third-party support provider Spinnaker Support, said: “The move to version 9 is quite a substantial upgrade and you can’t get…
