Free Tools to Quantify Your Broadcom VMware Risk
Answer 7 questions. Get a personalised score, key findings, and recommended next steps. Our assessment tools are built by the advisors who negotiate Broadcom VMware deals every day — not by the vendors trying to sell you migrations. Each tool takes approximately 3 minutes and provides vendor-agnostic guidance.
All of our assessments are 100% independent. We do not resell Broadcom products, we do not partner with migration vendors, and we do not have a financial interest in your outcome beyond helping you make the best commercial decision for your organisation.
Tool 1: VMware Licence Cost Impact Assessment (Post-Broadcom)
Evaluate how Broadcom's acquisition has affected your VMware costs. This assessment covers the perpetual-to-subscription shift, forced bundling, per-core pricing, and cost containment opportunities.
What you'll learn:
- Your estimated cost increase under Broadcom's new licensing model
- Which components in your current suite are most expensive under the new model
- What cost concessions are realistic in negotiation
- Whether migration alternatives may be financially justified
- Your priority actions before renewal
Tool 2: VMware to Alternative Hypervisor Migration Readiness
Assess your organisation's readiness to migrate from VMware to alternative platforms. This tool covers Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V, KVM, and other hypervisor alternatives — evaluating workload complexity, team skills, licensing, and migration planning.
What you'll learn:
- Which workloads are migration-ready today and which require preparation
- Estimated migration complexity and timeline
- Skills gaps and training requirements
- Whether your team can execute without external partners
- Which alternative platforms best match your requirements
Tool 3: VMware Core-Based Licensing Calculator
Understand the impact of Broadcom's per-core licensing transition. This calculator assesses the shift from socket-to-core pricing, server core counts, host utilisation, and consolidation strategies.
What you'll learn:
- Your core count under Broadcom's new metric
- How core counts compare across your server population
- Cost impact of the metric shift (separate from price-per-unit increases)
- Whether server consolidation can reduce core licensing costs
- Multi-year licensing costs at different per-core prices
Tool 4: Broadcom Renewal Risk Assessment
Evaluate the specific risks in your upcoming Broadcom VMware renewal. This assessment covers pricing escalation, support changes, forced bundling, exit strategies, and negotiation leverage.
What you'll learn:
- Your risk score across pricing, bundling, support, and exit factors
- Which contract terms are most at risk of unfavourable change
- Negotiation leverage points and escalation paths
- Whether a structured exit strategy should be your Plan B
- Timeline and executive engagement requirements
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When to Use Each Tool
Start with Tool 1 if: You want a quick snapshot of your cost exposure under Broadcom's new pricing model.
Use Tool 2 if: You are seriously considering exiting VMware and want to understand your migration readiness.
Use Tool 3 if: You are trying to understand the mechanics of per-core licensing and how it affects your bottom line.
Use Tool 4 if: Your renewal is within 6 months and you want to understand your negotiation leverage and risk factors.
Best practice: Run all four tools. Together, they provide a comprehensive view of your Broadcom VMware exposure — from cost impact to renewal risk to migration alternatives. This comprehensive view is exactly what Broadcom does not want you to have when you enter negotiation.
Related Resources
After completing the assessments, deepen your knowledge with these resources:
- Broadcom/VMware Knowledge Hub — All articles, assessments, tools, and case studies in one place
- Broadcom Advisory Services — Custom negotiation and alternatives evaluation
- Broadcom Case Studies — Real examples of cost reduction and migration strategies
- White Papers — In-depth analysis of VMware licensing, alternatives, and negotiation strategies
- Broadcom VMware Evaluation vs. Alternatives Advisory — Independent analysis of staying vs. migrating
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Recommended Next Steps
Based on thousands of hours of Broadcom VMware advisory experience, here is what we recommend:
Week 1: Complete all four assessment tools. Understand your cost exposure, migration readiness, core licensing impact, and renewal risk.
Week 2-3: Conduct an internal audit of your current VMware suite deployment. Document the products, versions, and entitlements that the assessments flagged as highest-risk or highest-cost-impact.
Week 4: If your renewal is within 6 months, schedule a consultation with our Broadcom advisory team. If your renewal is more than 6 months away, read the VMware Licensing Changes Explained article to understand the structural shifts Broadcom is enforcing.
Month 2: If you are seriously considering alternatives, engage a vendor-agnostic evaluation of Broadcom VMware vs. Nutanix, Hyper-V, and cloud-native options. See our Evaluation vs. Alternatives Advisory for guidance.
By following this sequence — assessments first, audit second, evaluation and negotiation third — you will be better positioned to make a defensible decision about your Broadcom VMware future than 95% of enterprises entering renewal.
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