As you have probably noticed, over the last few years, software vendors have been pushing cloud subscriptions a lot more heavily than on-premise licenses. We first had the example of Microsoft’s Windows Server 2022 announcement which removed the free Hyper-V edition, making managing your on-premise infrastructure in the cloud with Azure Stack HCI the only available method.
Companies are all jumping on that train because it brings them recurring revenue which is a lot safer than big one-shot licenses that will be dragged on for as long as possible (CAPEX vs OPEX). Granted these still require maintenance costs if you want to support major updates, but it is much lower than monthly payments for could resources.
In the summer of 2022, VMware followed suit on that trend with the vSphere+ program. You can read our blog on the topic to know more but the gist of it is that you get a cloud console with various services to manage your on-premise VMware SDDC across several locations of course.
In this blog, we will talk about the vSphere+ Standard edition which VMware rolled out to address requests from customers.
