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1. What is Perpetual licensing end?
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A.Broadcom ended perpetual VMware licenses; vSphere is now sold via subscription bundles billed per core.
B.The 2024-2026 industry movement of organizations migrating off VMware to Proxmox, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V or OpenShift Virtualization after Broadcom pricing and packaging changes
C.Broadcom ended sales of new perpetual VMware licenses in 2024, moving the entire portfolio to term subscriptions
D.VMware Cloud Foundation is the full private-cloud stack; vSphere Foundation is the smaller compute-plus-vSAN bundle.
A.Perpetual licensing end — Broadcom discontinued the free standalone ESXi hypervisor, later briefly reinstating a limited free tier.
B.Perpetual licensing end — The 2024-2026 industry movement of organizations migrating off VMware to Proxmox, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V or OpenShift Virtualization after Broadcom pricing and packaging changes
C.Perpetual licensing end — Broadcom ended perpetual VMware licenses; vSphere is now sold via subscription bundles billed per core.
D.Perpetual licensing end — Broadcom ended sales of new perpetual VMware licenses in 2024, moving the entire portfolio to term subscriptions
A.VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) — The flagship Broadcom subscription bundle combining vSphere, vSAN, NSX and Aria/VCF Operations into a full private-cloud stack
B.VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) — A Broadcom license type assignable across all components of a solution, such as licensing Supervisor and vSAN clusters together under VVF
C.VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) — Broadcom ended sales of new perpetual VMware licenses in 2024, moving the entire portfolio to term subscriptions
D.VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) — Broadcom's rebranding of the VMware Aria management suite into VCF Operations, Automation and related components under the VCF umbrella
A.VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) — A mid-tier Broadcom subscription bundling vSphere, a vSAN capacity entitlement and VCF Operations for smaller deployments
B.VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) — VMware folded vSAN, NSX, and Aria into VCF 9 and vSphere Foundation 9 as the two main SKUs.
C.VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) — The subscription model lets entitlements be applied on-prem or in VMware Cloud across providers within the term
D.VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) — The 2024-2026 industry movement of organizations migrating off VMware to Proxmox, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V or OpenShift Virtualization after Broadcom pricing and packaging changes
A.Per-core subscription licensing — The Broadcom model that licenses VMware by physical CPU core rather than per socket, billed annually as a subscription
B.Per-core subscription licensing — A mid-tier Broadcom subscription bundling vSphere, a vSAN capacity entitlement and VCF Operations for smaller deployments
C.Per-core subscription licensing — VMware subscriptions are sold per physical core with a 16-core-per-CPU minimum charge.
D.Per-core subscription licensing — Broadcom discontinued the free standalone ESXi hypervisor, later briefly reinstating a limited free tier.
D.16-core-per-CPU minimum — The flagship Broadcom subscription bundle combining vSphere, vSAN, NSX and Aria/VCF Operations into a full private-cloud stack
17. Which term means: "Broadcom's rebranding of the VMware Aria management suite into VCF Operations, Automation and related components under the VCF umbrella"?
A.Aria to VCF Operations rename — Broadcom's rebranding of the VMware Aria management suite into VCF Operations, Automation and related components under the VCF umbrella
B.Aria to VCF Operations rename — VMware subscriptions are sold per physical core with a 16-core-per-CPU minimum charge.
C.Aria to VCF Operations rename — The flagship Broadcom subscription bundle combining vSphere, vSAN, NSX and Aria/VCF Operations into a full private-cloud stack
D.Aria to VCF Operations rename — A mid-tier Broadcom subscription bundling vSphere, a vSAN capacity entitlement and VCF Operations for smaller deployments
A.The smaller standalone Broadcom subscription editions retained for customers not needing the full VCF or VVF bundles
B.Broadcom ended sales of new perpetual VMware licenses in 2024, moving the entire portfolio to term subscriptions
C.VMware subscriptions are sold per physical core with a 16-core-per-CPU minimum charge.
D.The 2024-2026 industry movement of organizations migrating off VMware to Proxmox, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V or OpenShift Virtualization after Broadcom pricing and packaging changes
20. Which term means: "The 2024-2026 industry movement of organizations migrating off VMware to Proxmox, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V or OpenShift Virtualization after Broadcom pricing and packaging changes"?
A.VMware exit trend — Broadcom ended sales of new perpetual VMware licenses in 2024, moving the entire portfolio to term subscriptions
B.VMware exit trend — The subscription model lets entitlements be applied on-prem or in VMware Cloud across providers within the term
C.VMware exit trend — Broadcom discontinued the free standalone ESXi hypervisor, later briefly reinstating a limited free tier.
D.VMware exit trend — The 2024-2026 industry movement of organizations migrating off VMware to Proxmox, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V or OpenShift Virtualization after Broadcom pricing and packaging changes
23. Which term means: "A Broadcom license type assignable across all components of a solution, such as licensing Supervisor and vSAN clusters together under VVF"?
A.Solution License — The 2025-2026 rise of Proxmox VE, KVM and KubeVirt adoption as organizations seek license-cost predictability after commercial pricing increases
B.Solution License — VMware folded vSAN, NSX, and Aria into VCF 9 and vSphere Foundation 9 as the two main SKUs.
C.Solution License — The 2024-2026 industry movement of organizations migrating off VMware to Proxmox, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V or OpenShift Virtualization after Broadcom pricing and packaging changes
D.Solution License — A Broadcom license type assignable across all components of a solution, such as licensing Supervisor and vSAN clusters together under VVF
A.The 2024-2026 industry movement of organizations migrating off VMware to Proxmox, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V or OpenShift Virtualization after Broadcom pricing and packaging changes
B.The 2025-2026 rise of Proxmox VE, KVM and KubeVirt adoption as organizations seek license-cost predictability after commercial pricing increases
C.The smaller standalone Broadcom subscription editions retained for customers not needing the full VCF or VVF bundles
D.The subscription model lets entitlements be applied on-prem or in VMware Cloud across providers within the term
A.The smaller standalone Broadcom subscription editions retained for customers not needing the full VCF or VVF bundles
B.The subscription model lets entitlements be applied on-prem or in VMware Cloud across providers within the term
C.VMware Cloud Foundation is the full private-cloud stack; vSphere Foundation is the smaller compute-plus-vSAN bundle.
D.The 2024-2026 industry movement of organizations migrating off VMware to Proxmox, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V or OpenShift Virtualization after Broadcom pricing and packaging changes
A.vSphere Standard and Essentials Plus — The Broadcom model that licenses VMware by physical CPU core rather than per socket, billed annually as a subscription
B.vSphere Standard and Essentials Plus — Broadcom's rebranding of the VMware Aria management suite into VCF Operations, Automation and related components under the VCF umbrella
C.vSphere Standard and Essentials Plus — The smaller standalone Broadcom subscription editions retained for customers not needing the full VCF or VVF bundles
D.vSphere Standard and Essentials Plus — The subscription model lets entitlements be applied on-prem or in VMware Cloud across providers within the term
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