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Thank you! Cheers!

There should be no need to re-install vSphere. You simply add the new key to the host(s), or vCenter if present, then assign to the host(s). The key thing to ensure a smooth transition is to make sure the new subscription licenses you obtain have all of your currently enabled features and making sure the correct number of cores are tied to the license, including the 16C per socket minimum.

Absolutely NOT hyper-v loool

Good question - Pre-Broadcom, you could mix different tiers of vSphere licenses within the same vCenter for anything Standard and above; however, we can't find anything concrete post-Broadcom. We asked our distributor to see if they had an answer, but those answers have been extremely slow recently. We did find an argumentative Reddit post about the subject you can read for fun! • www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/1aen5uo/mix_of_vmware_by_broadcomlicenses_on_same_vcenter/

@@xbytesolutions according to two different vendors I work with you cannot mix licenses now. Talk about another dumb decision Broadcom has made. VMware will be missed.

@@scotimus What other vendors are you thinking about moving to?

Great observation - Zabbix does offer Docker containers which you could run on windows if you needed. Here is a link in case anyone needs it: www.zabbix.com/container_images. Zabbix can monitor any environment. If you are looking for short term performance monitoring, there is a free tool called Live Optics (app.liveoptics.com/signup/xbyte). We use it a lot to size our OnPrem server proposals. We even did a video about sysadmins can use it as a report card (th-cam.com/video/0qtaFlgGKBY/w-d-xo.html).

If we are understanding your question - if you have to be a CSP for VCF? If that is what you are asking, you can get VCF without being a CSP. However, if you're a CSP you only get the VCF option

Yes, thank you for pointing that out. We did not include all the missing features - Per-VM EVC (Enhanced vMotion Capabilities) is another feature not in Essentials Plus. If you want the full breakdown of all the features, you can checkout www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/docs/vmw-datasheet-vsphere-product-line-comparison.pdf

@@xbytesolutions Per-VM EVC (Enhanced vMotion Capabilities) -> Is this the ability to vMotion across CPU generations by setting a minimum gen limit that all CPU would support, or is this an additional feature on top of being able to do that? We were using Enterprise Plus before on 10 hosts, that we replace every few years on a cycle, so EVC vMotion becomes critical to our ability to manage a cluster, if Standard doesn't support this and we need foundation, the quotes I just got basically doubles our cost from last year. So it becomes an important feature if we need to maintain that feature. Also, Standard doesn't have Distributed Switches, which we use, but we can reconfigure around it if we have too.

@@brianhayes2863 Unfortunately that is only available in Foundation. Here is a handy chart that shows the features and the compatibility - Please reach out if you need any assistance navigating options - www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/docs/vmw-datasheet-vsphere-product-line-comparison.pdf

The big question is where is everyone going to go?

@@xbytesolutions I saw one one study referred recently which had about 600 respondents of which, IIRC, 77% were going to open source solutions, mostly KVM (probably via RedHat/Canonical/SUSE), and about 12% to Hyper-V... I don't remember the source unfortunately, or whether this was "will go/are in the process" or "thinking of...". I know one customer which is hit pretty "hard", in that they have quite a few two-node vSAN-based clusters running mostly on ROBO licenses... maybe more or less a worst case scenario with respect to the recent changes.

If you are looking for alternatives, here is a recording of a Q&A we just held talking about options for customers: www.xbyte.com/vmware-qa/

Good suggestion - We'll get with the sales team and post the MSRP (assuming we are allowed to)

Here is a link to a Veeam Blog post that does a good job of walking through the financials of the new packages. With the minimum core count of 16 per processor and Essentials Plus only sold as package per 96 cores, you have to do a little mathing to make sure you are choosing the best option for now and near-term growth. community.veeam.com/blogs-and-podcasts-57/decoding-the-new-broadcom-vmware-vsphere-licensing-packages-for-small-deployments-6398

Here is a link to a follow-up video we just did that focuses on pricing - th-cam.com/video/H0f_p6-QgAs/w-d-xo.html

@ishkabibble6719 Tagging you so you can see the replies with more information on pricing (links in comments)