Don’t trade one cage for another.
Post-Broadcom, every VMware customer is doing the math. We built HyperEdge 500 for the ones who want out — sovereign hosting in MENA, no licence fees, no vendor lock-in, and a migration tool that moves a 100+ VM estate in hours, not weeks.
Three things you’ll notice on day one
We don’t sell escape — we sell predictability. These are the day-one differences VMware refugees see when they cut over to HyperEdge.
Zero licence fees
No per-VM, no per-core licence. No VMware Cloud Foundation bundle. No support uplift escalator. You pay for hardware capacity and support — every other capability ships with the platform.
Migration measured in hours
The HyperEdge migration tool handles discovery, V2V conversion, and cutover in a single automated workflow — VM identity, MAC, IP all preserved.
Compliance at the platform layer
Designed for SAMA, NCA, and PDPL. Audit-ready documentation ships with every deployment — no compliance team scramble at year-end.
HyperEdge 500 vs VMware vSphere
A factual comparison across licensing, pricing, support, residency, and lock-in. No marketing math — figures cited reflect publicly reported VCF list pricing post-Broadcom transition.
| Capability | HyperEdge 500 | VMware vSphere (post-Broadcom) |
|---|---|---|
| Licensing model | No licence fees — capacity-based | VMware Cloud Foundation bundle, per-core |
| Indicative price | ~$940/core all-in (hardware + support) | ~$2,000–4,000/core/year (VCF) |
| Annual support | 5–10% of capex | 22–28% of licence, escalating 10–20% YoY |
| Migration services | Included | Separate line item |
| MENA data residency | Yes — Riyadh, Cairo, Frankfurt | Customer-managed, varies |
| SAMA / NCA / PDPL | Designed for | Customer must architect |
| Vendor lock-in | None — open architecture, full portability | High — proprietary stack |
A 100+ VM estate, migrated in hours, not weeks.
The HyperEdge migration tool runs discovery, V2V conversion, and cutover end-to-end. VM UUIDs, MAC addresses, and network configuration are preserved. Larger estates extend to a few days for fleet-scale rollouts — never weeks.
VMs · one workflow · hours
Four phases. One automated workflow.
The same playbook our migration team has run across telcos, FSI, and government-adjacent enterprise — refined into a single tool you can run alongside your live vSphere cluster.
Assess
Automated discovery against your vCenter inventory. Workload grouping, dependency mapping, and migration risk score in under an hour.
Convert
V2V conversion preserves VM UUID, MAC, IP, and network config. Both clusters run side-by-side during cutover — zero risky big-bang weekend.
Cutover
Live migration of running workloads with rollback gates. DRS, HA, and vMotion equivalents are already in place on the HyperEdge side.
Decommission
VMware cluster is drained progressively as workloads validate. Licensing wind-down handled with the customer’s renewal calendar in mind.
Where each platform wins
We don’t pretend HyperEdge is the right call for every VMware shop. Here’s where the answer is “stay” and where the answer is “switch.”
No licence fees + no lock-in
- Post-Broadcom price shock — VCF licence costs more than 2× what they were 18 months ago
- You need sovereign hosting with audit-ready documentation for SAMA, NCA, or PDPL
- Mid-market or large enterprise (50–2000 VMs) — the HyperEdge cost model’s sweet spot
- You want out of per-VM licensing roulette, support escalators, and proprietary lock-in entirely
Staying is the right call
- Deep existing VMware tooling investment — vRealize, NSX, custom automations
- VMware-certified ISVs you depend on don’t yet support open hypervisors
- Multi-cloud federation across vSphere-on-AWS or vSphere-on-Azure is core to your strategy
- The cost of retraining IT staff exceeds the per-core licensing premium
What VMware customers ask us first
If your question isn’t here, the consultation slot above is unmetered — bring the architecture diagram.
What does “no licence fees” actually mean?
How long does migration actually take?
Will V2V conversions preserve VM identity, MAC, IP?
What about DRS, HA, and vMotion equivalents?
Can VMware and HyperEdge run in parallel during migration?
What happens to existing VMware support contracts?
Find out what your VMware exit actually costs.
Two minutes, no email gate, no sales call until you ask. The calculator gives you indicative pricing, support delta, and a migration timeline you can hand to your finance team.
