New VMware Software Licensing Resources

After the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom, there has been announcement on simplifying the way VMware software licensing will work. That was a very bold step to really help customers. There maybe lots of comments over it, but if you have never been into an architecture discussion and having to also coming out a licensing strategy, you might not appreciate this change.

In additional, in totality, customer will find that the cost might just be much affordable than before. Contact your VMware Account Manager to find out more.

So let's go back to the present. Existing customer who might have renewal ending and would definitely need to know how much license they would need to procure. The well known William Lam, definitely not leaving VM Admin challenges. He has created a PowerCLI script to help customer pull out those needed information to help existing brownfield customers forward. 

Next to help understand what are the new criteria needed to purchase the new license, this is a kb release to help understand for architects who need to do such planning during a architecture review.