博通 VMware 大砍刀：旗下 59 项产品即日结束供应，用户需转用最新 VCF / VVF 订阅

1 月 25 日消息，博通（Broadcom）此前以 690 亿美元（当前约 4926.6 亿元人民币）并购 VMware，之后解雇了 1300 名 VMware 员工，并将 VMware 云服务“永久许可证”改为订阅制度。

目前 VMware 宣布旗下 59 款产品已经结束供应（End Of Availability，EOA），不再提供销售、支持、SaaS / 托管等服务，原先订阅 59 项产品的用户在订阅过期后需转用 VMware 最新推出的 Cloud Foundation（VCF）或 VMware vSphere Foundation（VVF）订阅。

据悉，VCF 订阅号称是面向用户全端基础设施需求的解决方案，提供包括 vSphere、vSAN 和 NSX 等服务，以及完整的 Aria 管理和调度工具；VVF 则是 VMWare 针对传统 vSphere 环境中的数据中心提供的解决方案，包括 Tanzu Kubernetes Grid、Aria Operations 和 Aria Operations for Logs 等工具。

在 VMware 博客文章中，官方声称“许多 VMware 的软件解决方案都将作为 VCF 和 VVF 的一部分提供”，这暗示只需使用少量功能的用户也需要花费更多预算购买 VCF 或 VVF 订阅。

VMware 还计划提供自带授权（Bring Your Own License）功能，允许用户从博通购买 VCF 订阅，并将这些订阅部署到经过 VMware 验证的云节点或本地数据中心。

附 59 项结束供应的产品列表如下：

VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus
VMware vSphere+
VMware vSphere Enterprise
VMware vSphere Standard (excluding subscription)
VMware vSphere ROBO
VMware vSphere Scale Out
VMware vSphere Desktop
VMware vSphere Acceleration Kits
VMware vSphere Essentials Kit
VMware vSphere Essentials Plus (excluding new subscription offering)
VMware vSphere Starter/Foundation
VMware vSphere with Operations Management
VMware vSphere Basic
VMware vSphere Advanced
VMware vSphere Storage Appliance
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free edition)
VMware Cloud Foundation (excluding new VCF subscription offering)
VMware Cloud Foundation for VDI
VMware Cloud Foundation for ROBO
VMware SDDC Manager
VMware vCenter Standard
VMware vCenter Foundation
VMware vSAN
VMware vSAN ROBO
VMware vSAN Desktop
VMware vSAN+
VMware HCI Kit
VMware Site Recovery Manager
VMware Cloud Editions/Cloud Packs
VMware vCloud Suite
VMware Aria Suite (formerly vRealize Suite)
VMware Aria Universal Suite (formerly vRealize Cloud Universal)
VMware Aria Suite Term
VMware Aria Operations for Networks (formerly vRealize Network Insight)
VMWare Aria Operations for Networks Universal (formerly vRealize Network Insight Universal)
VMware vRealize Network Insight ROBO
VMWare Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight)
VMware vRealize Operations 8 Application Monitoring Add-On
VMware Aria Operations
VMware Aria Automation
VMware Aria Suite Cloud for US Public Sector
VMware Aria Automation for Secure Hosts add-on (formerly SaltStack SecOps)
VMware vRealize Automation SaltStack SecOps add-on
VMware Aria Operations for Integrations (formerly vRealize True Visibility Suite)
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director Service
VMware NSX
VMware NSX for Desktop
VMware NSX ROBO
VMware NSX Distributed Firewall
VMware NSX Gateway Firewall
VMware NSX Threat Prevention to Distributed Firewall
VMware NSX Threat Prevention to Gateway Firewall
VMware NSX Advanced Threat Prevention to Distributed Firewall
VMware NSX Advanced Threat Prevention to Gateway Firewall
VMware AVI Load Balancer (excluding Subscription, SaaS)
VMware Container Networking Enterprise with Antrea
VMware HCX
VMware HCX+