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Navigate your VMware renewal with confidence

Broadcom's acquisition has transformed VMware licensing. With your renewal approaching, you need clear guidance on costs, options, and migration paths. Softcat help you navigate your choices, so you can maximise the value of your VMware investment.

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What to consider

Your VMware renewal introduces a broader set of considerations:

1

New product bundling

Understanding which bundle fits your needs and how to maximise its value.

2

Subscription-only model

No more perpetual licences and minimum core requirements.

3

Financial
planning

Evaluating pricing options to support effective multi-year budget planning.

Clear options, transparent costs, expert guidance

As the UK's largest VMware reseller, we help you secure the best terms. Our Partner Advisory Board seat enables us to gain early visibility of changes and provide you with the best long-term advice. Our VMware Knights bring you early product knowledge, access to the latest capabilities, and direct escalation to VMware engineering teams.

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How Softcat help:

  • We assess your VMware estate and model renewal scenarios, giving full cost transparency across staying as-is, moving to VCF, or exploring alternatives.


  • We help you navigate Broadcom's bundle options, match the right SKUs to your needs and maximise the value of included features.


  • Our VMware specialists handle the technical validation. We check compatibility, plan migrations, and identify risks before you commit.

Complete cost transparency

Understand pricing across all bundle options before committing

Get full bundle value

Discover and use included features that benefit your organisation

Validated technical path

Compatibility checked, migration planned and risks identified.

Optimal commercial terms

Access pricing enabled by our scale and relationships

Future flexibility

Understand how today's choices affect your three-year roadmap

Why Softcat for VMware?

Proven VMware expertise at scale, Softcat provide direct strategic input as a member of VMware’s Executive Partner Advisory Board.

We've already helped hundreds navigate these changes. From NHS trusts protecting critical systems to financial services optimising costs. Our specialists understand your challenges because we've solved them before.

VMware certifications

Deep technical knowledge across all product families

years of VMware partnership

Trusted relationship through every transition

VMware certifications

Deep technical knowledge across all product families

years of VMware partnership

Trusted relationship through every transition

Softcat helped us reduce our VMware renewal costs by 30% while maintaining full functionality. Their team understood the new licensing model better than anyone else we spoke to.

IT Director, Financial Services