Using VMware was smart.
Now it's time to leave.
Broadcom raised VMware license prices by 8–15×. Switch to PlusClouds — eliminate pricing risk and take full control of your infrastructure.
Average extra annual cost
+340%
License prices rose 8–15×
Unpredictable & rising
Perpetual licenses eliminated
No more perpetual licenses
Mandatory bundle subscription
Mandatory bundle, no choice
Next year's pricing unknown
High risk for your budget
High vendor lock-in risk
Hard to leave, by design
Support costs skyrocketed
Enterprise support now costs extra
Average annual savings
60–75%
Fixed, transparent pricing
No surprises, total control
Xen virtualisation fully supported
Open, flexible, future-proof
Full control — no vendor lock-in
No lock-in, full freedom
EU data centre — GDPR compliant by default
GDPR compliant by default
Free migration consultation
Free, no obligation
8–15×
Broadcom price increase
EU only
Data stays in EU
Zero
Egress fees on PlusClouds
60 sec
New server deploy time
How will your life change?
Compare how your IT team and budget look before and after switching.
Invoice shock every year
License renewals are stressful. Will your budget hold? The uncertainty never ends.
Vendor lock-in
Leaving is difficult even if you want to. Broadcom designed it that way.
Days-long support waits
You open a ticket and wait days. Enterprise support is now behind an extra paywall.
Platform innovation stalled
Broadcom slowed new feature development. The platform is effectively in maintenance mode.
Paying for unused features
You only want ESXi but must buy the full bundle. Paying for things you don't use.
Fixed, predictable costs
Know exactly what you'll pay a year in advance. Budget planning is possible again.
Full control and freedom
Xen or fully managed cloud — the choice is yours. No lock-in.
Dedicated account manager, 90-day hypercare
A named engineer is assigned to your account. Problems get escalated and permanently resolved.
Active platform development
New features every quarter, modern API, GitOps and Kubernetes support.
Pay only for what you use
vCPU, RAM, storage — take as much as you need. No bundle mandates, no hidden fees.
Your new infrastructure
Xen Cloud — enterprise-grade compute. Ready in 60 seconds.
What challenges
will you face?
We could say migration is easy — but honesty is our preference. Here's what to expect and how to overcome it.
Network Nodes
10 / 40 Gbps backbone, zero egress fees
Migration timeline
Depending on environment size, migration can take 1 week to 4 months.
A phased migration plan lets you move gradually while keeping business continuity. Production workloads move last.
VM format compatibility
Converting VMDK disks to VHD or XVA (Xen native) format requires technical know-how.
Our migration toolkit handles conversion automatically. For large disks we use incremental sync.
Network configuration
Migrating NSX or vSwitch configurations can be complex.
Our SDN specialists analyse your existing topology and recreate it on PlusClouds before cutover.
Team adaptation
Your team may need time and training to learn the new platform.
Free onboarding training and comprehensive documentation. Plus 90 days of hypercare support.
Downtime risk
A poorly planned migration can affect production systems.
We prepare a rollback plan for every migration. We never touch production until tests pass.
Contract exit strategy
Leaving an active VMware contract early can be costly.
Our team helps you plan your Broadcom contract exit strategy to minimise overlap costs.
This migration is right for you if...
Your invoice is a surprise every year
Broadcom moved to subscriptions and your renewal cost jumped 8–15×. Next year is anyone's guess. PlusClouds runs on fixed hourly and monthly pricing — no surprises, ever.
- Hourly billing — idle VMs cost nothing
- Fixed price: budget a year in advance
- Free consultation — we show exact savings before you commit
You manage large infrastructure with a small team
VMware required dedicated specialists just to keep the lights on. Leo Orchestrator handles self-healing, monitoring, and cost optimisation automatically — one person is enough.
- Leo Orchestrator: AI-driven self-healing, zero manual babysitting
- Instant Telegram alerts — know before users do
- Auto-cleans idle resources, cuts waste without lifting a finger
Your data must stay within EU borders
GDPR, KVKK, or sector regulation means your data cannot leave the EU. PlusClouds operates an EU data centre, signs DPAs, and offers Private Cloud with full physical isolation.
- EU data centre — data never crosses EU borders
- GDPR & KVKK compliant, DPA signed on request
- Private Cloud: dedicated hardware, physical isolation
You use Terraform, GitOps, or Ansible
VMware's integration with modern tooling has been getting worse with every release. PlusClouds is API-first — pick up exactly where you left off. Leo MCP lets you manage servers from any AI chat.
- Leo MCP: run Terraform and manage servers from AI chat
- API-first — nothing is locked behind a GUI
- Ansible, GitOps, Kubernetes — continue without re-learning
You had to pass VMware costs on to your customers
Broadcom price hikes eroded your margins and forced you to raise customer rates. Leo Orchestrator's API lets you build a white-label self-service portal on PlusClouds infrastructure at a price you control.
- Leo API: launch a white-label portal in days
- Multi-tenant isolation, single management pane
- Fixed wholesale price — protect every per-client margin
You never want to be locked in to a vendor again
After Broadcom, you're done trusting proprietary platforms. Xen is an open standard. With PlusClouds Private Cloud you can run on dedicated Dell hardware — at our DC or yours — and leave any time.
- Xen: open standard, no proprietary lock-in
- Private Cloud on Dell hardware — 5-year ProSupport
- No exit barriers: your VMs, your data, your call
When can I migrate?
A 4-phase migration process. Small environments can complete in 2 weeks.
Discovery & Analysis
⏱ 1 week
Inventory your VMware environment: VM count, sizes, dependencies, network topology.
- VM inventory
- Dependency mapping
- Risk assessment
- Cost comparison
Planning & Preparation
⏱ 1–2 weeks
Build the migration plan, set up the PlusClouds environment, configure networking, prepare rollback plans.
- Migration runbook
- Test environment setup
- Network configuration
- Rollback strategy
Pilot & Testing
⏱ 1–3 weeks
Move non-critical workloads first. Run performance, reliability, and integration tests.
- Dev/test environment migration
- Performance benchmarking
- Application testing
- Team training
Production Cutover
⏱ 1–8 weeks
Migrate production workloads during planned maintenance windows. Keep the VMware source running until stability is confirmed.
- Production migration
- Parallel run period
- VMware decommission
- 90-day hypercare
Total: 2 weeks (small) → 4 months (large enterprise)
Enterprise Xen cloud
built for VMware migrants.
PlusClouds is built on Xen — the enterprise hypervisor powering some of the world's most demanding clouds. Full virtualisation, live migration, HA clustering, and SDN networking. No proprietary lock-in, predictable pricing.
Bare Metal Servers
Dedicated physical servers with full root access
Xen Hypervisor Support
Full Xen virtualisation environment
Ceph Storage
vSAN-equivalent distributed storage
SDN & Firewall
NSX-equivalent software-defined networking
Live Migration
Zero-downtime VM movement
HA Clustering
vSphere HA-equivalent high availability
Xen Cloud
Enterprise ready
Storage Infrastructure
NVMe SSD + Ceph distributed storage — vSAN-equivalent, no extra license.
Get a free migration consultation
In a 30-minute call we analyse your VMware environment and show you exactly how much you'll save, how long migration will take, and what challenges to expect.
Cost analysis
VMware vs PlusClouds comparison
Migration plan
Custom timeline and roadmap
Risk assessment
Likely challenges and solutions
All your questions, answered
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