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Effective October 24, 2022, VMware vSphere 8 is available. VMware’s new enterprise workload platform, vSphere 8: brings the benefits of cloud to on-premises workloads supercharges performance with DPU and GPU based acceleration enhances operational efficiency through the VMware Cloud Console seamlessly integrates with add-on hybrid cloud services accelerates innovation with

Effective August 30, 2022, VMware Aria, a multi-cloud management portfolio, is available and is the new brand for a number of renamed VMware products. VMware Aria provides a set of end-to-end solutions for managing the cost, performance, configuration, and delivery of infrastructure and cloud native applications. Powering VMware Aria is

Effective July 12, 2022, VMware vSphere+ and VMware vSAN+ are generally available. Note that vSphere Advantage is now vSphere+. vSphere+ modernizes consumption for on-premises vSphere deployments, creating a low-maintenance, centrally managed workload platform that provides organizations with an easy way to procure and operate vSphere via a core-based subscription model.

Effective August 4, 2022, the following price adjustments to VMware products take place: A 10% price increase for perpetual licensed Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) software (VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX, vRealize) and related bundles/packages that include these offerings. Price changes to reflect currency exchange rates to End-User Computing (EUC) offerings transacted

Effective May 26, 2022, Broadcom acquires cloud computing company VMware in a $61 billion cash-and stock deal, the chipmaker’s biggest and boldest bid to diversify its business into enterprise software. VMware, which was owned by Dell until it was spun off last year, focuses on cloud computing and virtualization technology.

Effective June 2, 2022, VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.0.x and 4.1.x as well as VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Cloud Director Availability 1.0 reach their End of General Support (EOGS). Accordingly, these versions stop being available for download from the VMware download pages or Marketplace. VMware Cloud Director Availability

Effective November 4, 2021, VMware vRealize True Visibility Suite Standard will no longer be available for purchase. The End of Availability (EoA) will not impact general support of the management packs included in this suite. VMware vRealize True Visibility Suite is a collection of Compute and Dell EMC Storage management

Effective January 16, 2022, the End of General Support (EoGS) for the current VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere platform, which is part of the entitlement of the NSX Data Center products, takes place. Effective January 16, 2023, the corresponding technical guidance will end. During the Technical Guidance phase, VMware

Effective September 20, 2021, VMware vRealize Cloud Universal Standard Add-on for Horizon is available. Existing vRealize Operations for Horizon customers can purchase this Add-on at a discounted price. VMware vRealize Cloud Universal is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) management suite designed to accelerate cloud adoption by combining on-premises and SaaS capabilities for