We recently had a meeting with our new (as in 4th in a year) rep. They let us know ROBO licensing is moving away from the VM Pack method it is now to per socket licensing. Minimum of 16 core per socket purchase, and you can’t stretch a license across multiple cores.
We about blew a gasket when we were told this. It is going to make our ROBO license jump from about $2K up to $30K PER YEAR. We were told changes to Ent+ are coming too, but details were not known. We are in the process of looking at how moving to another option would look like. Either Hyper-V or Nutanix AHV.
I guess we can see how Broadcom is making their money back. By screwing over their customers.
Definitely look into Nutanix AHV, but I’d definitely recommend 3 node over two node ROBO. Personally I like NX hardware but it’s all fine.
The only downside I’ve encountered is VM affinity lacks compared to VMware.