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Centro de operaciones de red real: puestos curvos con monitores y técnicos atendiendo, iluminación tenue
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Three of the seven lines DOCOMO signed with VMware are not software

On 20 October 2026 Broadcom announced its first comprehensive ten-year agreement in Japan: NTT DOCOMO keeps its private cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation. The reading that will circulate in this week's renewal meetings — "not everyone is leaving" — is the wrong one, and the reason sits in the release itself: of the seven lines listed in the product annex, three cannot be installed. They are a Support Account Manager, a Technical Account Manager and VCF Forte Support; people with your name on their list. We explain why that column is not in your catalogue, why the product list read backwards is the dependency inventory that decides how long a migration takes, when we DO tell clients to stay, and we leave you the seven-line exercise to run against your own contract.

VMware Migration Suppliers
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Servidores retirados apilados sobre un palé de madera junto a sus guías de rack
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650 servers became 400: where the savings from leaving VMware actually come from

Topgolf says it avoided or eliminated more than $11.3 million in combined infrastructure costs after moving 12,000 virtual machines off VMware. The headline will end up on a slide this week. What will not is in the same report and in the vendor's own documentation: they went from 650 servers to roughly 400, each venue cluster dropped from six nodes with 35 TB to three with 5 TB, and an entire third-party backup product left the invoice along the way. Inside those $11.3 million there are at least four different bills and only one of them is the hypervisor. We separate the sums, say which part does not transfer to your company, and leave you the list of line items that cost about the same with 40 machines as with 12,000.

Virtualisation Migration Costs
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Pasillo en penumbra de una sala de servidores, con dos filas de armarios cerrados y sus pilotos encendidos
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Your VMware provider expires before your contract does

On 8 October 2026 IBM handed "hundreds" of its VMware cloud customers over to another company. None of them signed that deal. The date that governs a hosted VMware cloud is not in your contract: it is in the partner agreement your provider holds with Broadcom. Inside: the January FAQ sentence that describes what just happened nine months in advance, the seven dates with their owner in one table, the two days between 31 March and 2 April 2027, why "VCF 7" does not exist in Broadcom's documentation, and four questions that fit in one email.

Virtualization Licensing Cloud
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Interior de una librería de cintas con el mecanismo del lector a la vista y una columna de ranuras vacías al fondo
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Microsoft deleted data before the window closed, and cannot say which

In late September 2026 it emerged that Microsoft, "due to an error", deleted data from expired subscriptions under its nonprofit programme before the retention and export window had closed. It could not be recovered. And there is a second half: it is currently unable to hand over a list of which data may have been deleted. Inside: the official Microsoft 365 countdown —30 days of Expired plus 90 of Disabled— and its asterisk; the 30 days that counter lost on 9 February 2026 for anyone buying direct under a Microsoft Customer Agreement; the four documented shortcuts that zero it, including the immediate deletion of SharePoint and OneDrive; and why article 33(5) of the GDPR asks you to document facts that, without an independent copy, you cannot enumerate.

Backup Microsoft 365 Compliance
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Armario de red mural de una pequeña empresa con un conmutador y cables sin ordenar
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Windows Server 2016 ESU is billed from 12 January, whenever you buy it

Windows Server 2016 leaves support on 12 January 2027, 104 days from now. Everyone repeats that; the Azure Arc billing page, less so: licences provisioned after that date are back-billed to 12 January, the charge appears as a separate line item, deactivating and reactivating does not avoid it, deleting and recreating does not either, and Microsoft writes that "there are no conditions under which it can be avoided". Deferring stops being free. And before the price comes eligibility, which is where many smaller companies fall out: on-premises ESU requires Software Assurance or an equivalent Server Subscription, SPLA is not available for 2016, neither is the Visual Studio benefit, and transitioning from Volume Licensing is not supported with Azure Arc. Also: why the bill is decided by how you count cores —16 physical per machine or 8 virtual per VM, with Microsoft's own 1,024-versus-506-core example—, what to ask your CSP now that no list price has been published, and the option that is not on the slide.

Windows Licensing Infrastructure
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Técnico agachado detrás de un rack, con el portátil apoyado en el suelo técnico y un manojo de cables sueltos al lado
10 min read

Moving to Proxmox doesn't touch your licences; failover does

The Windows licensing question comes up in every migration meeting, and the short answer disappoints everyone: changing hypervisor recalculates nothing. Something else changes the bill, and Microsoft has it written in a single sentence: "License Mobility across Server Farms is not available for Windows Server, so each server must be licensed for peak capacity at all times." Each server, peak capacity, at all times. The licence does not follow the virtual machine, so the number depends on how many nodes it could ever start on: 32 core licences or 96, for exactly the same installation. What changed in SQL Server 2022, why the AVMA myth does not apply to you if you are coming from vSphere, and why a Proxmox affinity rule is a useful control but not a contractual boundary.

Migration Licensing Virtualization
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Fila de mesas de oficina con los monitores apagados y una silla vacía
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Office 2021 does not stop working: it stops being tested against Microsoft 365

On 13 October 2026 nothing switches off: Word will open, Outlook will sync and nobody will notice. That day two clocks start at once and only one makes noise. The first is the ordinary end of support — Microsoft stops providing technical support, bug fixes and security updates. The second raises no alert: Microsoft stops checking that its own services still work with your Office, and the outage arrives months later without you touching a thing. The two different dates Microsoft itself publishes, the Office 2016/2019 precedent from 2023, and the finding that decides who is in a hurry: Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro expires in the very same second, but the Enterprise edition holds on for another year.

Workplace Licensing Microsoft 365
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Pasillo de un depósito de archivo con estanterías móviles cerradas y cajas de documentación
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Project Online shuts down on 30 September: no licence, no export

Microsoft switches Project Online off on 30 September and PWA sites stop being available. But what decides whether you make it in time is not in the announcement: it is in the service description, which requires a live Plan 3 or Plan 5 subscription in the tenant for ANY interaction. Which means the licence you were going to drop to save money during the migration is the one you need in order to export. There is also a second 120-day clock written somewhere else, the PWA is a SharePoint site and not a calendar, and the destination's published limits explicitly exclude your plan.

Microsoft 365 Data SaaS
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Fila de puestos de trabajo vacíos en una oficina
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Entra ID retires memberOf on 3 November: after that date, membership stops being recalculated

Message centre post MC1448379, published on 5 August, has been read as a deadline. Read it the other way round: if you run a memberOf rule in production, you already have the problem it describes, and the preview documentation says so in a paragraph almost nobody reads. What happens on 3 November is not an outage or an error: memberships stay "in their last known state". That is where licences, Conditional Access and Teams membership hang from.

Identity Microsoft 365 Licensing
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Cuarto de informática de una empresa pequeña con un bastidor abierto de dos servidores, un SAI abajo, estanterías con discos de repuesto y una mesa plegable con una caja de herramientas
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VMware brings back vSphere Standard: how to read an announcement that does not exist

On 2 September 2026, two Broadcom executives told the press there will be a new vSphere Standard. No keynote, no press release, no price and no date. The last time the rules changed for this segment—the 72-core minimum of April 2025—that news also arrived through a distributor email, and the reversal through a revised price list. What was actually said, where Broadcom draws the line for "small", and six things you can do before 13 October.

VMware Licensing Virtualization
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Chasis de servidor de rack abierto sobre un banco de taller, con la tapa retirada y dos disipadores de procesador a la vista entre los bancos de memoria
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Azure stops including the VMware licence: the core count nobody does

Two weeks ago we wrote that 31 October 2026 is the end of Azure VMware Solution with the licence included. Microsoft has since published its portable licensing reference, and that is where the counting rules are: how many cores each node type has, why the distributed firewall counts every host in the private cloud even the ones you are not paying for, and which date actually governs your calendar, because it is not the August 2027 one.

VMware Licensing Azure
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Mesa de una oficina administrativa a última hora: archivadores de anillas, una calculadora de sobremesa y un archivador metálico con un cajón abierto
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5% more for paying monthly: what changes on 1 October, and when not to switch

From 1 October 2026 Microsoft will add a 5% uplift to CSP software subscriptions on annual terms billed monthly: it names Windows Server, SQL Server, CALs and System Center, and leaves the list open. The product does not change; the price of money does. The full arithmetic — that 5% works out at borrowing at roughly 11% a year — why your date is not 1 October but each line's renewal date, and the cases where moving is not worth it.

Licensing Microsoft Costs
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El 31 de octubre de 2026 se acaba el modelo de licencia de VMware incluida en los nodos de Azure VMware Solution: a partir del 1 de noviembre hay que aportar una suscripción portable de VMware Cloud Foundation comprada a Broadcom
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Plan B expires on 31 October: VMware with the licence included is ending in the cloud

On 31 October 2026 the Azure VMware Solution model in which the licence came bundled with the node comes to an end: from 1 November you must bring a VMware Cloud Foundation key bought directly from Broadcom. On Google Cloud VMware Engine it already happened on 1 November 2025. Eighty-nine days to go. For two years, "I will just lift my vSphere into the hyperscaler" has been the favourite plan B for not deciding; it was an extension, and extensions expire. The maths you can finish this week, and when staying put is the right call.

VMware Licensing Cloud
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El peaje del ESU de Windows 10: el precio se duplica cada año y es acumulativo
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Windows 10 and the October toll: ESU doubles every year and you cannot skip year one

Microsoft charges $61 per device for the first year of Windows 10 extended security updates, and its own documentation says two things almost nobody puts together: the price doubles every consecutive year and ESUs are cumulative, so enrolling in year three means paying for all three. Delaying enrolment does not reduce the bill if you end up enrolling: it shifts the payment and leaves you without patches while you wait. The full math, the three blind spots that cost real money (the 2027 headline is not about your company, LTSC is not covered, and Office lives on until 2028 but you can no longer log a bug) and when paying for ESU really is the right call.

Windows Licensing Workplace
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La subida de precios de Microsoft 365 del 1 de julio de 2026, con la cuenta real por usuario
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Microsoft 365 has already gone up: the percentage that scares you is not the one that costs you money

On 1 July the price increase for Microsoft 365 commercial suites came into force. Through June everyone repeated the same advice —renew before the 1st and you freeze your price— and that advice expired four weeks ago. The official before-and-after price table, the math that actually matters (per-user increase multiplied by headcount and by twelve), why the price that does NOT change is the most informative figure in the announcement, which capabilities land in each suite, and the five things we would do before your renewal.

Microsoft Licensing Endpoint
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