How big is your VMware renewal increase?
Type in what VMware cost you last year and what the renewal quote says. See your increase next to the 300% to 500% that Liberty Center One says many organizations are seeing, and what the way out it uses looks like.
How the number is worked out
The renewal per year is the quote divided by the number of years it covers.
Your increase is the renewal per year minus last year's cost, divided by last year's cost, as a percentage. An increase of 300% means the new price is four times the old one; 500% means six times.
The extra cost is the renewal per year minus last year's cost. If the quote covers more than one year, the tool also shows the extra over the whole agreement.
This compares two prices and nothing else. It leaves out what a move would cost: staff time, migration work, new hosting and any hardware. It can't tell you whether leaving VMware would save you money; only a look at your own systems can.
Sources (checked 31 October 2026)
- Liberty Center One, "VMware Alternative" page: "Many organizations are seeing 300-500% increases (or more) at renewal"; its OpenStack cloud with KVM as the hypervisor; the $181,400 example; the phased migration plan and its five steps; unlimited test migrations; the VMware Exit Assessment.
- The arithmetic is Salter Growth's own. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
The way out Liberty Center One uses
Liberty Center One, our data center partner in Royal Oak, Michigan, runs a managed cloud on OpenStack, with KVM as the hypervisor instead of VMware, so there are no VMware licenses to renew. In its own words: "We didn't move to OpenStack 10 years ago just to offer another platform."
It doesn't ask you to move everything at once. It says some applications may still need VMware, it still supports VMware where needed, and it builds "a phased migration plan, not a forced rip-and-replace." The move runs in five steps:
- Identify which workloads are ready to move.
- Create a cloud environment sized for them.
- Replicate data from VMware in the background, without disrupting daily work.
- Test: Liberty Center One says unlimited test migrations can be run, with no impact to production.
- Final migration, planned to keep downtime and business impact low.
One published example. Liberty Center One says that for one client facing rapidly escalating VMware costs, the move to OpenStack eliminated $181,400 in VMware expenses. That is one client's result, not a forecast for yours.
The first step is what Liberty Center One calls a VMware Exit Assessment: it looks at your environment and shows what a move to OpenStack could look like. Liberty Center One pays Salter Growth when an engagement goes ahead; you pay us nothing. If staying on VMware is the better deal for you, we'll say so.
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