A staged migration design and a credible BATNA for the VMware estate. Nutanix AHV, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation, Proxmox VE, hyperscaler-native (Azure, AWS, GCP) and the partial-exit hybrids. The paper sets out the cost of stay, the cost of move, the staged migration design and the renegotiation leverage the exit posture creates at the renewal table. Written from the buyer’s side. None of it carries reseller margin or referral fee.
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A credible exit architecture is the strongest BATNA the buyer can carry into the Broadcom renewal table. The renewal price the buyer is offered is, in part, a function of the credible alternative the buyer is prepared to take. Where the buyer has no alternative, the renewal price is the price the buyer will pay; where the buyer has built a costed, staged, board-approved migration plan, the renewal price has a ceiling that Broadcom must respect.
The paper sets out the work the buyer must do before the renewal table opens: the workload classification, the alternative-stack short-list, the dual-quote process with the alternative vendors, the migration cost ladder, the dual-run cost arithmetic, the timeline to first workload migrated. The work is non-trivial; it is also the single most economically productive piece of work the buyer can do in the twelve months before the renewal.
The credible exit produces three outcomes at the renewal table: a price floor that Broadcom must defend, a bundle composition that Broadcom must justify, and an annual escalator that Broadcom must contain. None of the three is a function of negotiation skill alone; each is a function of the underlying economic position the buyer carries to the table.
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