Estimate your renewal under Broadcom per core licensing, including the 16 core per CPU minimum, the 72 core minimum order and the vSphere Standard 512 core cap, then see what right sizing the bundle could recover. No sign up, nothing leaves your browser.
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Defaults are indicative public list estimates in USD per core per year. For a real picture, replace them with the per core rate on your own quote and set the discount above to nil. Non USD totals use an indicative conversion of 1 USD to 0.75 GBP or 0.87 EUR.
A note on availability. Broadcom has withdrawn vSphere Foundation (VVF) in some regions, so the VVF option here may not be something you can actually license where you are. If VVF is the tier on your quote, or the one you were hoping to move to, drop us a line and we will confirm what is available to you and what it changes for your renewal.
This tool gives a directional estimate. A C4C renewal audit checks your real core utilisation, confirms the correct bundle for what you actually run, and models staying and renegotiating against moving on the same basis. We negotiate these renewals from years on the vendor side, so we know where the give is: often staying wins because the cost of moving outweighs the increase, and when moving is right we structure it so you are not left over a barrel at the next renewal. We have recovered an average of 37% for clients. Engage us early, before the renewal clock takes your leverage.
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Broadcom licenses VMware per core on subscription, not per CPU or per host, and three rules shape the bill. There is a minimum of 16 cores for every physical CPU, so a CPU with fewer than 16 cores is still charged as 16. There is a minimum subscription order of 72 cores, so small environments are billed for at least 72 cores. And vSphere Standard is available only up to 512 cores, above which you must use vSphere Foundation or VMware Cloud Foundation.
The billable core count is your hosts multiplied by CPUs per host multiplied by the greater of your cores per CPU or 16, then raised to 72 if it falls below that floor. That count is multiplied by the per core annual price of your bundle, reduced by any discount, and multiplied by the term.
The part most quotes gloss over is the bundle. The three tiers differ enormously:
The right sizing insight in the results shows the difference between the bundle you have been quoted and the tiers beneath it. If your workloads do not use the networking and full storage capabilities VCF brings, you may be paying a large premium for capability you will never deploy. That gap is exactly what an independent audit sets out to confirm and recover.
Broadcom licenses VMware per core on subscription. The billable core count is hosts multiplied by CPUs per host multiplied by the greater of your cores per CPU or 16, subject to a 72 core minimum order, then multiplied by the per core annual price of the bundle and the term.
Broadcom bills a minimum of 16 cores for every physical CPU. A CPU with fewer than 16 cores is still charged as 16, which inflates the bill on smaller hosts.
Yes. Broadcom applies a minimum subscription order of 72 cores, so smaller environments are billed for at least 72 cores regardless of their actual size.
Yes. vSphere Standard is available up to 512 cores. Above that you must license vSphere Foundation or VMware Cloud Foundation.
Broadcom has withdrawn vSphere Foundation in some regions, so it may not be available to license where you are. If your quote names VVF, or you were hoping to move to it, speak to us and we will confirm what you can actually buy and how it affects the numbers.
Often yes. Right sizing the bundle to the features you actually run, confirming real utilisation, negotiating the discount and choosing the correct term can all recover cost. An independent audit before signing is the highest leverage step.