一项针对VMware客户的调查显示，十分之九的受访者表示，更高的许可成本促使他们考虑替代方案。Unisphere Research于2025年12月至2026年2月期间，对VMware用户组织中的269名高管、经理和专业人员进行了调查。该研究由第三方支持服务提供商Rimini Street委托进行，还发现54%的受访者将永久许可支持的终止作为评估其他选项的原因。
Nine out of ten respondents to a survey of VMware customers say higher licensing costs were prompting them to consider alternatives. Unisphere Research surveyed 269 executives, managers, and professionals at VMware user organizations between December 2025 and February 2026. The study, commissioned by third-party support provider Rimini Street, also found that 54 percent cited the end of perpetual license support as a reason to evaluate other options.
研究表明，成本仍然是虚拟化路线图决策的主要驱动力。73%的受访者表示，节省成本是首要任务。
The study showed cost remains the leading driver of virtualization roadmap decisions. Seventy-three percent said savings were a top priority.
受访者还指出了变革面临的障碍：运营复杂性（40%）、多厂商管理挑战（38%）、保护不断增加的攻击面（37%）以及团队技能要求（37%）。
Respondents also identified barriers to change: operational complexity (40 percent), multi-vendor management challenges (38 percent), securing the increased attack surface (37 percent), and team skills requirements (37 percent).
销售VMware第三方支持服务的Rimini Street首席运营官基思·科斯特洛（Keith Costello）表示，用户正在为其虚拟化策略寻求选择权、灵活性和控制权。“这些调查结果再次印证了对实用且不依赖特定厂商的策略的需求，这些策略能够将业务优先权重新交还到客户手中。”
Users were looking for choice, flexibility, and control over their virtualization strategies, said Keith Costello, chief operating officer with Rimini Street, which sells third-party support for VMware. "These survey findings reinforce the need for practical, vendor-independent strategies that put business priorities back on the client's terms."
60%的受访者正在考虑多虚拟机监控程序（hypervisor）策略。48%的受访者表示，他们目前没有计划将任何资产迁移到VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)——博通（Broadcom）的订阅平台和首选迁移路径。
Sixty percent of respondents were considering a multi-hypervisor strategy. Forty-eight percent said they did not currently plan to move any assets to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), Broadcom's subscription platform and preferred migration path.
博通于2022年同意收购VMware。到2024年11月，Gartner公开认为客户因这次收购而处境恶化。2025年5月，云客户群体欧洲云竞争观察组织（ECCO）和云行业协会CISPE声称，自收购VMware以来，博通已将VMware的许可成本提高到了此前水平的8到15倍。
Broadcom agreed to buy VMware in 2022. By November 2024, Gartner was arguing that customers were worse off because of the acquisition. In May 2025, cloud customer group the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) and cloud trade association CISPE claimed that Broadcom had upped VMware licensing costs to between eight and 15 times their previous levels since it acquired VMware.
当时，博通表示，该公司正致力于推动欧盟的主权云目标，并帮助企业“加速创新、提供更多选择，以及应对最复杂的技术挑战”。今年6月，英国零售巨头特易购（Tesco）表示，其正在以一款替代产品取代VMware，并继续推进针对该虚拟化技术先驱公司母公司博通的许可诉讼案，该案在高等法院的审判最早将于2027年11月举行。
At the time, Broadcom said it was working to advance the European Union's sovereign cloud objectives and enable enterprises to "accelerate innovation, provide more choice, and address their most complex technology challenges." In June, UK retail giant Tesco said it was replacing VMware with an alternative product and pressing ahead with its licensing lawsuit against the virtualization pioneer's parent company, Broadcom, with a High Court trial scheduled no earlier than November 2027.
上个月，Gartner预测，到2029年，超过一半的企业将开始对VMware部署的替代方案进行概念验证，但与此同时，博通业务部门仍被评定为两大市场中的领导者。报告称：“到2029年，55%的企业将启动针对替代性分布式混合基础设施产品的概念验证，以取代其基于VMware的部署，并采用混合云基础设施交付模式，这一比例在2026年仅为25%。” ®
Last month, Gartner predicted that more than half of enterprises would begin proofs of concept for alternatives to their VMware deployments by 2029, while still rating the Broadcom business unit a leader in two major markets. "By 2029, 55 percent of enterprises will initiate proofs of concept for alternative distributed hybrid infrastructure products to replace their VMware-based deployments and embrace hybrid cloud infrastructure delivery, up from 25 percent in 2026," it said. ®