Virtualization & Infrastructure Advisory
Broadcom's changes left many businesses facing a renewal they can't afford and an exit that looks risky. Prices have climbed sharply, and any multi-year budget should assume they keep climbing. You don't have to pick one. We start with how your business runs and give you an unbiased recommendation that brings cost under control and keeps your systems running.
Most organizations will shrink their VMware footprint rather than remove it. Gartner analyst Paul Delory also says licensing bills typically rise 300 to 400 percent, and that leaving usually means running more than one platform. The exit is a planning problem, and the plan decides how it goes. We model renewals that cost more each year, not the same, because that is the safer assumption for a multi-year budget.
Source: The Register, May 12, 2026, reporting Gartner.
Services
Start with the assessment. Partner matching and delivery oversight follow once you have chosen a path.
A review of your infrastructure as it stands today, aligned with where the business is going. You get a recommended path, the alternatives we ruled out, and the reasons.
Once we agree on a path, we bring in a specialist partner matched to your platform and environment, so the hands-on work goes to people who specialize in it.
We keep the partner on schedule and keep everyone informed, so your team and your business know what is happening and what comes next.
Cost of staying
Set your core count, or estimate it from your hosts, to get a rough annual and three-year figure for VMware Cloud Foundation licensing. Change the per-core rate to match a quote you hold.
Or estimate the cores from your hosts:
Licensing and support only. Hardware, backup tooling, staff time and migration work are not included unless you enter a migration cost below.
Proxmox VE is priced per CPU socket. Its published prices are in euros (Basic 370, Standard 550, Premium 1,100) and are shown at about $1.14 per euro. Vates prices XCP-ng with Xen Orchestra per host, with a fixed price up to three hosts. Hosts and sockets here come from your cores and the sockets and cores per socket you set. Prices change and reseller or multi-year terms differ, so confirm against current quotes.
Illustrative only. The default rate of about $350 per core per year is a third-party estimate of VCF list pricing, and the calculator applies a 72-core minimum. Your quote depends on edition, term, bundles and any other terms Broadcom applies. Send us the quote you received and the assessment will check it line by line.
Options compared
Our experienced, unbiased approach weighs budget, risk tolerance, staff skills, application support, compliance and growth. No option starts as the favorite, including leaving VMware.
Other platforms, such as Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization or managed hosting, enter the comparison when your needs point there. Each option has some form of import tooling for vSphere. That tooling moves disks. It does not plan your waves, map your networks or schedule your cutovers.
Process
Review the infrastructure as it stands and map it to your business goals, growth and constraints.
Compare the options, choose a path, and set a one-to-five-year roadmap and wave order.
A vetted partner performs the migration in waves. We keep schedule, testing and communication on track.
Runbooks, backup and monitoring confirmed on the new platform, and a walkthrough for your team.
Why independent
No platform quota and no preferred outcome. The recommendation is whichever path your business and budget support.
Senior solutions architect with deep experience in VMware infrastructure and licensing. This practice exists because the same question keeps coming up: how do we get out, and what will it take?
Questions
No. Some environments are better served by staying, by shrinking the footprint, or by running two platforms for a time. The assessment compares all of those against your costs and risks.
Staying on VMware, Proxmox VE, XCP-ng, Microsoft Hyper-V and Azure Local, Nutanix AHV, HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, OpenStack, and public cloud, plus others when your needs point there. Each is measured against your own criteria.
Any size, from a single host to a multi-site enterprise estate. Smaller environments get a lighter assessment. Larger ones get more discovery, more stakeholder interviews and a phased roadmap.
It is a fixed fee set by the size of the environment. We agree the scope and price on an introductory call, before any work starts.
A vetted specialist partner matched to the platform you choose. We help select the partner, check their scope against the roadmap, and oversee delivery and communication so your team always knows where things stand.
Yes. If you have already chosen, we still check the choice against your storage, backup, network and application requirements, then match you with a partner and plan the migration around it.
No. Medford Technology Group is an independent advisory firm. Product names belong to their owners and are used here to describe the work.
Get in touch
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