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What Does Staying on Broadcom Actually Cost You?

Aegis IM FINAL (1)

Modern CPUs mean more cores per socket, and Broadcom bills every one of them. A routine refresh to 52-core processors can double or triple your VCF licensing overnight, with 16-core minimums, mandatory bundles, and no path to reduce spend. The cost isn't theoretical; it's the line item waiting in your next renewal.

This calculator models your actual environment against the Aegis Infrastructure Modernization path and returns two numbers.

The first is your licensing delta: what changes when you replace VCF with Nutanix NCI on the same refreshed hardware. NCI bills actual cores with no minimums and no forced bundles. Hardware is identical in both scenarios, so the comparison is clean.

The second is your full economic position. Aegis brings an automated, co-managed operating model built on Infrastructure as Code. Provisioning drops from days to minutes, configuration drift is eliminated at the source, and your team recovers hundreds of engineering hours annually. Those operational gains are quantified alongside the licensing savings, and every service cost and transition expense is transparently netted out, not buried in a footnote.

Enter your current node count, CPU configuration, and storage. The model runs in seconds. What comes back is a defensible, assumption-transparent business case you can hand to leadership or use to pressure-test your next Broadcom quote.

AIM ROI Tool

See the 4-Year Cost Difference Between VCF Renewal and AIM

Model the cost impact of staying on VMware Cloud Foundation versus modernizing to a validated AIM fabric.

Model your environment

Estimate your 4-year VMware VCF TCO versus the Aegis Infrastructure Modernization path. Both scenarios refresh to the same modern hardware.

Your current environment

Range: 3–500
Current CPUs per Node
Broadcom bills minimum 16 cores / CPU
Current installed memory

Broadcom burn variable

Note: Recent market data shows enterprise VCF renewals at $350/core or above. Lower rates may not reflect actual renewal pricing.
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Enter your environment details and click Calculate ROI to see the 4-year cost comparison, licensing gap, and break-even projection.