Inaccurate. VMware is consolidating its ABSOLUTELY INSANE list of SKUs down to a handful. Yes, some products are getting put down (I.e. no longer maintained, with support ending way later), but not 56 of them, and definitely not NSX (makes HUGE money for VMware).
What I take from several kbs and articles is they're removing all of that as individual products, and they're selling the new all-in-one "vSphere foundation", only in a subscription model, that will have some of those functionalities and then offer some others (like NSX) as add-ons:
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Inaccurate. VMware is consolidating its ABSOLUTELY INSANE list of SKUs down to a handful. Yes, some products are getting put down (I.e. no longer maintained, with support ending way later), but not 56 of them, and definitely not NSX (makes HUGE money for VMware).
Source: I work at VMware in presales
You should tell whoever wrote this kb and the associated articles that the language is opaque, confusing and contradictory.
Your potential customers will not enter your sales funnel with this kind of strange and misshapen noise happening about your products.
What I take from several kbs and articles is they're removing all of that as individual products, and they're selling the new all-in-one "vSphere foundation", only in a subscription model, that will have some of those functionalities and then offer some others (like NSX) as add-ons:
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2024/01/embracing-change-wi...
Right. Many of these products are going to be integrated into VMware Cloud Foundation, or VCF.