VMware to Proxmox After Broadcom: The Real 3-Year Cost for a 3-Host Small Business

Broadcom publishes no per-core price, so nobody can hand you a VMware total. We can price the Proxmox side to the dollar, count the 96 cores you… Aliteq 0xLax · Founder · Cloud & Infrastructure

For three hosts with two 16-core sockets each, VMware means licensing 96 cores on a per-core subscription, and Broadcom does not publish what a core costs, so you need a written quote. Proxmox VE…

VMware rule: per-core subscription, minimum 16 cores per processor, so 96 cores here

VMware price: not published by Broadcom, so we show a break-even instead

Proxmox: €370 to €1,100 per socket a year, 6 sockets, $7,476 to $22,226 over 3 years

Break-even: about $60 per core per year, all-in; about $26 on licenses alone

Our assumption: $6,000 for the migration, 60 hours at $100

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