Migrating from VMware

Your renewal quote shouldn't be a ransom note.

Since the Broadcom acquisition, vSphere customers have faced subscription-only licensing, bundled SKUs, and renewal quotes multiplying year over year. For edge fleets — where every cost multiplies by the number of sites — the model simply stopped making sense. NodeWeaver replaces the stack with one integrated platform, licensed the way software used to be: perpetually, per node, with every feature included.

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What maps to what

One integrated platform replaces the stack.

NodeWeaver isn't a hypervisor with add-ons bolted on — compute, storage, networking, and fleet management are one product, on your choice of standard x86 hardware.

In your VMware estate In NodeWeaver What changes
vSphere / ESXi NodeWeaver virtualization VMs and thinVMs with automated placement and continuous tuning. Legacy Windows workloads run in VMs alongside modern containers.
vSAN Software-Defined Storage Built-in distributed filesystem with encryption at rest. Full HA from 2 nodes — no 3-node minimum, no external SAN required.
NSX Software-Defined Networking & SASE SDN with integrated SASE, distributed firewall, and DDoS protection on every node. Wire-line speed for Ethernet up to 100 Gbit/s.
vCenter / Aria Operations EdgeInsight + DNSOps Fleet-wide health visibility, policy-driven rollouts, and lifecycle management. The control plane lives on every cluster — sites operate independently.
Tanzu / Kubernetes add-ons Built-in Kubernetes K8s runs alongside VMs on the same cluster — no separate licensing layer.
Per-core subscription bundles Perpetual per-node license $1,500 per physical server, one-time, every feature included. Support optional, renewable annually.
The licensing contrast

Buy once. Keep it forever.

The subscription treadmill

  • Subscription-only — stop paying, stop running
  • Priced per core, multiplied by every socket in the fleet
  • Features unbundled and re-bundled across SKU tiers
  • Renewal pricing discovered at renewal time
  • Edge sites pay datacenter-grade licensing

The NodeWeaver model

  • Perpetual license — $1,500 per node, one-time, yours forever
  • Per physical server, regardless of cores, RAM, or workloads
  • Every feature included — no tiers, no surcharges
  • No kill switch: nodes keep running even if support lapses
  • Optional support at $300 (Basic) or $600 (Enterprise) per node/year

Prefer opex? Subscription pricing is available for fleets of 100+ nodes — see pricing →

Independent recognition

A DCIG Top 5 SMB/Edge VMware vSphere alternative.

DCIG's 2024–25 report on vSphere alternatives for small business and edge deployments names NodeWeaver among the top five solutions for organizations leaving the new vSphere pricing behind.

Read the full report NodeWeaver solution profile

The migration guide

Step-by-step documentation for moving workloads from another platform onto NodeWeaver — including VM import and what to plan for.

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Thirty minutes, no obligation. We walk through your VMware estate, your workloads, and your sites — and tell you honestly what migrates cleanly and what needs planning.

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