In 2024, Broadcom simplified VMware product pricing and packaging. The VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) offering now encompasses a wide variety of VMware software and features, with a relatively smaller number of software and features being sold as add-ons. As part of this simplification, Broadcom required all customers and cloud providers to make new commitments and to create new license keys.
Cloud providers are uniquely entitled for on-demand licensing of VMware products beyond their contract commitment. In exchange for this benefit, Broadcom expects that the vCloud Usage Meter product “must be used” to monitor and report usage of VMware products. IBM secured an extension of this requirement so that we could update our automation and develop integration points for our customers. IBM has now released updated VMware license keys and Usage Meter support, and IBM’s customers are expected by Broadcom—and therefore by IBM—to “immediately” install these in order to remain entitled to VMware software. . . . read more at Updates to VMware license keys and the use of vCloud Usage Meter in IBM Cloud
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