If your business runs any kind of virtualized infrastructure, and a lot of Oahu property management companies, hospitality groups, and clinics do, you’ve probably heard the noise about VMware’s licensing overhaul following the Broadcom acquisition. Q1 2027 is when it really starts to bite, and I’ve been fielding questions about it.
Most small and mid-sized businesses here don’t have a dedicated IT department that can drop everything to model out licensing exposure or start renegotiating contracts. That’s the gap I fill.
As a vendor-neutral consultant, I don’t have a horse in this race the way a VMware reseller does. My job is to look at what you’re actually running and tell you the truth about your options (VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, Nutanix) based on what fits your business, not what pays me the best commission.
Concretely, that means:
- An honest read on your current setup: what you have, what it costs you now, and what it’ll cost under the new model.
- Contract negotiation: leaning on experience across carriers and vendors to get you better terms than you’d get walking in alone.
- A real alternative-platform comparison, if switching turns out to be the smarter move.
If your business is running VMware and you haven’t looked at what 2027 means for you yet, now’s the time. Not in Q4 2026 when everyone else is scrambling too.