VMware Licensing Services
Establish your Effective License Position (ELP), negotiate a better contract and protect from audits.
Supporting clients with VMware licensing
With VMware being the de facto solution for virtualization on x86 infrastructure for companies of all shapes and sizes, it’s essential that you understand your VMware licensing in order to keep operational costs down.
Fortunately, our VMware licensing experts have vast experience in supporting global clients with their VMware licenses.
We’ll be in your corner throughout the licensing process, from audit defense through to ongoing cost optimization.
We outline some of our core licensing services below, but please feel free to contact us with any query or concern you have – every situation is different and we are very happy to discuss your specific requirements.
VMware Licensing Services
VMware contract review
VMware’s wide range of agreements and purchasing programmes can make it difficult to understand which option is right for your organisation.
Our consultants review your VMware contracts, VMware portal data (licences, product details and history), and VMware Install Base Report (IBR) to provide:
• A clear baseline of licence entitlements, support levels and legacy licences
• Opportunities to consolidate licences and reduce complexity
• Potential issues arising from VMware’s Consistent Coverage Policy
• Unfavourable contractual terms that should be renegotiated
• Licence restrictions beyond metrics and quantities that may affect compliance
VMware Effective License Position (ELP)
To fully understand your compliance with VMware, it is necessary to periodically review the estate.
Through our VMware ELP service, we will help you understand your environment by guiding you through the data collection process and providing an in-depth report detailing:
• The license consumption of your estate
• Any potential issues relating to your license key deployments
• Any potential issues relating to VMware’s ‘consistent coverage policy’
Combined with an in-depth contract review, you will receive a comprehensive ELP detailing the various risks and opportunities in line with VMware’s audit methodology, allowing you to address any upcoming audits with confidence.
VMware audit support
Whether you have received a formal VMware Audit or have been approached by VMware at the end of your ELA to certify your license requirements, the process and data requests can be overwhelming.
Our service aims to help you through this process by:
• Clarifying the requests and the key data points so you are fully comfortable in sharing any requested data and at your own pace
• Ensuring that only the mandatory data points are shared (often the data requests encompass products and data requests beyond the agreed scope)
• Verifying any findings and claims made
Key benefits of our VMware licensing service
Independent expertise, market intelligence, and a focus on agreements that protect you well beyond the signing date.
Limit risk & financial consequences
Our independent advice ensures that you do not pay too much for your actual usage, and any non-compliance is reduced as much as possible.
Fully independent advice
Our advice is all 100% independent of any software providers, meaning that we can quickly assess and subsequently minimize the damage of any hidden non-compliance, all without biases. Get to the bottom of what you owe – if anything.
Understand your license usage
Nobody wants to pay for too many licenses. Regular assessment from our experts will ensure that you don’t have too many, or too few. We’ll identify optimization opportunities, resulting in a potential reduction of your annual fees.
REAL WORLD INSIGHT
How to prepare for a VMware audit
In this article we outline the VMware license audit process and highlight the key compliance aspects you should be aware of.
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