Case study vi · Broadcom / VMware · Post-Acquisition Renewal · Contingency

Telecom operator caps its Broadcom VMware increase at 18% against a proposed 340%.

A European telecom operator with 6,400 vSphere licences plus NSX, vSAN and Site Recovery received Broadcom's post-acquisition renewal: $14M a year under the forced VCF bundle, against $3.2M under the prior Enterprise Plus subscription — a 340% increase built on products the operator did not use.

Result · $24M Avoided

The engagement

What Admodum did.

Full deployment audit established actual per-site use of vSphere, NSX and vSAN.
Modelled the alternatives: VCF, vSphere Foundation, the Cloud Service Provider Program and third-party hypervisor migration.
Built a three-year plan cutting the VMware footprint 40% through consolidation and migration of low-criticality workloads.
Negotiated a transition contract holding vSphere Foundation only for retained workloads.
Established a cost ceiling and exit clauses against further increases.

The outcome

What the client achieved.

New contract at $3.8M annual against the $14M proposal — an 18% increase on the prior baseline instead of 340%.
$24M avoided over the three-year term.
A migration path established for 40% workload reduction.
Completed in 9 months.

The lesson

What the case teaches.

Buyers who accept the proposed VCF structure typically pay three to five times prior costs for products they do not use. A deployment audit, credible alternatives and disciplined negotiation preserve most of the prior cost structure while building migration optionality.

Engagement details

How it ran.

Duration: 9 months
Team: 3 senior advisors
Model: contingency, 18% of documented savings
ROI: 11x

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