VMware has scrapped the unified price catalog for the EMEA region (Europe, the Middle East and Africa).
There are now two catalogs: one for the European Economic Area (the EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) and another for the other countries in this zone.
VVF and vSphere Enterprise+ kept in the EU, but for how long?
The difference is not trivial: outside the EEA, the VVF (vSphere Foundation) and VSEP (vSphere Enterprise+) are no longer marketed.
Only VSS (vSphere Standard) and VCF (Cloud Foundation) remain.
The first changes its model: it becomes a non‑time‑bound SKU, priced at $70 per core per year – the rate that had previously applied for a one‑year commitment.
The second sees its price rise from $350 to $400 per core per year.
Meanwhile, the Private AI Foundation add‑on is no longer available.
The new go‑to‑market policy outside the EEA also imposes the infamous minimum of 72 cores.
This minimum is understood per line item – in other words, per VMware product edition. Broadcom had already been applying it since April… outside of the EMEA. The European Commission’s review of its case likely motivated this exception and the decision to keep it in the EEA.
VCF as a single offering: straight to the point
vSphere Enterprise+ had disappeared from VMware’s lineup once, a few weeks after the Broadcom merger. It was ultimately reintroduced in November 2024, without vSAN (storage) or NSX (network).
Since then, it has been described as a temporary measure. Like vSphere Standard, which has already stopped being sold in APAC (Asia-Pacific) since April 2025 – and now appears not to be sold in North America either.
These offerings are all the more precarious because there is no plan for them to support vSphere 9. Until further notice, they are restricted to vSphere 8 (Update 3), whose general support ends in October 2027.
The outlook for VVF was not much brighter either. Notably, VCF 9 introduced several capabilities that facilitate migrations from other VMware products, particularly for NSX import.
