What is VMware?
VMware has been a Broadcom division since Broadcom completed its acquisition in November 2023. Broadcom consolidated the product catalog into a small number of bundles, chiefly VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and vSphere Foundation (VVF), and ended new sales of perpetual licenses in favor of per-core term subscriptions with a minimum core count per processor. Core virtualization (ESXi/vSphere) remains deployable on customer-owned hardware.
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: Broadcom TechDocs for VMware, Broadcom VMware news.
Key capabilities
- vSphere/ESXi: Hypervisor and management for on-premises virtual machines.
- VMware Cloud Foundation: A bundled private-cloud stack with compute, storage and networking.
- Licensing: Per-core term subscriptions sold through Broadcom and its partners, not self-serve.
Server virtualization, private-cloud infrastructure and the migration path off legacy perpetual licenses are the practical scope under Broadcom ownership.
Shortlist VMware for on-premises or hybrid virtualization when the workload and existing skills justify it, but budget for the current subscription-only, per-core licensing model and get a specific quote through a Broadcom partner rather than assuming legacy perpetual pricing still applies.
Because licensing and packaging changed substantially after the Broadcom acquisition, a current partner quote and the support-lifecycle date for your chosen version matter more here than historical VMware pricing or edition names.
Technical details
- Access
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Other license
- Founded
- 1998
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, California, USA
- Pricing model
- Contact sales
- API
- Available
- Website
- www.vmware.com ↗
Official resources
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