Broadcom raised your VMware bill. Summit will get you out.
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware triggered licensing overhauls, 72-core minimums, and renewal shocks that hit teams without warning. Summit helps you assess your options, plan a controlled exit, and land on infrastructure built for the long term — whatever platform makes the most sense for your workloads.
What Broadcom actually did to your VMware contract
The acquisition wasn’t just a name change. It rewrote the economics of VMware for thousands of organizations overnight.
Renewal shock
Customers across the board are reporting renewal increases of 3x to 10x under Broadcom’s new subscription model.
72-core minimum
Broadcom’s per-core bundle requires a 72-core minimum purchase, forcing smaller deployments to pay for capacity they’ll never use.
Perpetual licenses eliminated
Broadcom ended perpetual licensing entirely, converting all customers to annual subscriptions with no grandfathered pricing path.
Support restructured
Many existing support tiers were discontinued or repriced. Teams that relied on specific support levels found their contracts materially changed at renewal.
There’s no single right answer. Summit helps you find yours.
The best destination depends on your workloads, your team’s skillset, and how much you want to manage yourself. We’ve migrated to all of them.
Hyper-V Private Cloud
The closest drop-in for Microsoft-aligned teams
Included with Windows Server licensing, with enterprise HA, live migration, and native Azure Arc integration. Lower cost, familiar tooling, Microsoft’s long-term roadmap behind it.
Learn about Hyper-V
Proxmox Private Cloud
Open-source independence, no per-core licensing
VM and container support in one stack, built-in clustering and HA, and zero exposure to future vendor pricing decisions. The lowest-cost hypervisor option with nothing to prove.
Learn about ProxmoxBare Metal Servers
Skip the hypervisor entirely for raw dedicated performance
Single-tenant dedicated hardware with zero virtualization overhead. Every core and every GB is yours. Best for AI, GPU workloads, high-performance databases, and compute-heavy applications.
Learn about Bare MetalKubernetes
Containerize and modernize while you exit
If your VMware exit is also a modernization moment, containerizing workloads onto a managed Kubernetes platform can reduce operational surface area while improving deployment flexibility.
Learn about K8sMulti-Tenant Cloud
Cloud flexibility on shared infrastructure, powered by Hyper-V
For teams that want cloud-like elasticity without dedicated hardware costs. Summit’s multi-tenant cloud runs on Hyper-V and gives you self-service provisioning, flexible resource scaling, and predictable monthly pricing.
Learn about Multi-Tenant CloudSigns Broadcom has already changed your math
You don’t have to wait for the next renewal to start evaluating your options.
We manage the exit. You manage your business.
Any provider can sell you a new hypervisor. Summit plans the migration, executes it, and runs the infrastructure after you’re in.
A controlled exit, not a fire drill
Whether you’re six weeks from a renewal or planning ahead, we run the same disciplined process: assess, design, validate, cut over.
Assess your footprint
We review your current VMware deployment, workload requirements, dependencies, and compliance needs to identify the right destination and scope.
Build the landing zone
Summit provisions your destination environment — cluster, storage, networking, backup — and configures it fully before a single production workload moves.
Validate before you commit
Workloads are pre-staged, tested for connectivity and performance, and validated at the application level. Rollback paths stay intact throughout.
Cut over in planned waves
Production traffic moves in controlled batches with Summit managing each wave. No big-bang cutovers, no surprise downtime windows.
We’ll migrate you off VMware for free.
We migrate qualifying VMware environments off Broadcom at no cost — to whatever platform fits your workloads best.
Staying on Broadcom VMware vs. moving to Summit
A straight comparison of what changes and what doesn’t when you make the move.
| Stay on Broadcom VMware | Move to Summit | |
|---|---|---|
| Licensing cost | Per-core subscription with 72-core minimum; many customers report 3–10x renewal increases | Flat monthly fee based on your actual infrastructure, no core minimums ✓ |
| Pricing predictability | Subject to Broadcom’s roadmap decisions at every renewal cycle | Contractually fixed monthly pricing that doesn’t change on Broadcom’s schedule ✓ |
| Platform choice | VMware only, on Broadcom’s terms | Hyper-V, Proxmox, bare metal, Kubernetes, or private VMware — whichever fits your workloads ✓ |
| Migration support | You own the decision to stay; no one helps you plan an exit | Summit plans, stages, validates, and executes the full migration with rollback protection ✓ |
| Day-2 operations | Your team or an MSP manages the platform on Broadcom tools | Summit monitors, patches, secures, and maintains the environment end-to-end ✓ |
| Support access | Broadcom support tiers restructured post-acquisition; escalation paths less direct than before | 24/7 U.S.-based engineers who built and operate your environment ✓ |
| Compliance posture | Dependent on your current MSP and how they’ve configured shared resources | Single-tenant dedicated infrastructure; SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, PCI DSS support ✓ |
Companies that made the move
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Summit migrated four merging healthcare organizations to our new hybrid cloud environment with 100% success and zero downtime.
Resources for planning your VMware exit
Questions about leaving VMware
Exit VMware for free
Tell us about your environment — workload size, current platform, renewal timeline — and we’ll map out your migration. It’s on us for qualifying environments.
