VergeIO
VMware costs exploding? Escape Broadcom — keep your hardware.
Broadcom killed perpetual licensing and forced customers into VCF/VVF subscription bundles — with renewals climbing 300% to over 1,000%. VergeOS is the exit: one integrated OS, one license per host, up to 70% lower cost, on the servers you already own.
- Cut infrastructure cost up to 70% — one all-inclusive license per host
- No re-architecting — VergeOS runs on your existing x86 hardware
- Migrate at scale with zero downtime — no bundle, no lock-in
Named a DCIG Top 5 VMware alternative, two years running.
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The Broadcom price shock, in numbers
Perpetual licenses are gone. It’s subscription-only VCF/VVF bundles now — with three-year minimums, a 20% late-renewal penalty, and sales pressure toward bigger bundles than you need. EU regulators have even opened an investigation into the pricing. You don’t have to accept the quote.
What switching to VergeOS looks like
Everything vSphere does — in one OS
The dissatisfaction with VMware is about the bill, not the tech — so you shouldn’t have to give up features to escape it. VergeOS delivers them natively, with no separate products to license, integrate, or patch.
High Availability
Automatic VM restart and failover across hosts with storage redundancy built in — business continuity out of the box.
Live Migration
Move running VMs across hosts with no interruption — keep workloads live through maintenance and rebalancing.
Resource Balancing
VergeOS continuously balances workloads across the cluster as demand shifts, and ioOptimize moves VMs off aging hardware.
Software-Defined Networking
VergeFabric delivers virtual networks, segmentation, and routing natively — no separate NSX licensing or appliances.
Integrated Storage
VergeFS pools all storage into one global system with inline dedup — up to 90% less capacity, no external SAN to manage.
Backup, DR & Ransomware
ioClone snapshots, ioReplicate DR, and ioFortify ransomware protection are built in — recover in seconds, even at petabyte scale.
VMware / Broadcom vs. VergeOS
Migrate without re-architecting — on your existing hardware
Switching-cost inertia is the only thing keeping most teams on VMware. ioMigrate rehosts your VMs onto VergeOS on the servers you already own, including networking, in minutes — while production keeps running. Our architects run it with you end to end.
Assess
We map your VMware environment and build a migration plan and a side-by-side cost comparison against your renewal quote — no commitment.
Migrate
ioMigrate moves VMs and their networking onto VergeOS on your existing servers, node by node, with zero downtime — no new hardware to buy.
Validate
Confirm performance and DR, then decommission VMware before your renewal date. A live engineer is with you the whole way.
Even VMware’s own leaders are betting on VergeIO.
Former VMware executives — including VMware’s ex-CTO and its former ecosystem chief — have joined VergeIO’s board and invested in the company. When the people who built VMware look for what’s next, they land on a private cloud operating system.
Add a DCIG Top 5 VMware-alternative rating two years running, and the verdict is clear: VergeOS is where VMware refugees are going.
Why teams choose VergeOS over VMware
“It’s a no-brainer. There is just absolutely no downside. You could actually do this tonight if you wanted to.”
“We spent 8 months trying to automate this on VxRail, and it failed. With VergeOS it took less than a month and now it just works.”
“We eliminated the need for external RAID and vSAN while improving performance — and dramatically lowered our cost per workload.”
Bring your renewal quote. We’ll show you the savings.
Get a free, no-obligation cost comparison against your Broadcom renewal — plus a migration plan and a live walkthrough with an architect.
Get my custom savings estimateWhat VMware admins ask before they move
We just got a huge Broadcom renewal quote — what are our options?
You don’t have to accept it. Bring the quote to a VergeOS assessment and we’ll build a side-by-side cost comparison plus a migration plan timed to land before your renewal date. Most teams cut infrastructure cost up to 70% by moving to one all-inclusive license per host.
Do we have to re-architect or buy new hardware?
No. VergeOS runs on the standard x86 servers you already own — no hardware compatibility list constraints, no appliances, no re-architecting. ioMigrate rehosts your VMs and networking onto your existing fleet.
Do you have equivalents to vMotion, DRS, and HA?
Yes — all built in. VergeOS provides live VM migration (vMotion equivalent), continuous workload balancing (DRS equivalent), and automatic failover with storage redundancy (HA equivalent) — with no separate products to license.
How hard is the migration, and will there be downtime?
ioMigrate rehosts your VMware VMs — including networking — onto VergeOS on your existing hardware, node by node, with zero downtime. Our architects run it with you from assessment through cutover, on your timeline.
What about backup, DR, and ransomware protection?
All built into VergeOS: ioClone for instant snapshots, ioReplicate for three-click DR, and ioFortify for ransomware detection and recovery — restore in seconds, even at petabyte scale, with no third-party tools.
What does support look like?
One support tier for everyone — reach a live engineer in minutes, not a severity-based queue. It’s consistently the reason customers cite for switching and staying.
Your VMware exit starts here.
See VergeOS live, get a custom savings estimate against your renewal, and a zero-downtime migration plan — in one 25-minute call.
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